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Evelyn Keyes
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Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 - July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes came out to Hollywood and was introduced to Cecil B. DeMille, who in her own words, “signed me to a personal contract without even making a test”. After a handful of B-movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed the role in Gone with the Wind, of Scarlett O'Hara's sister, Suellen. She was later interviewed for the 1988 documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind.
Columbia Pictures signed her to a contract. In 1941, she played an ingenue in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. She spent most of the early 1940s playing leads in many of Columbia's B dramas and mysteries. She appeared …
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Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 - July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes came out to Hollywood and was introduced to Cecil B. DeMille, who in her own words, “signed me to a personal contract without even making a test”. After a handful of B-movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed the role in Gone with the Wind, of Scarlett O'Hara's sister, Suellen. She was later interviewed for the 1988 documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind. Columbia Pictures signed her to a contract. In 1941, she played an ingenue in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. She spent most of the early 1940s playing leads in many of Columbia's B dramas and mysteries. She appeared as the female lead opposite Larry Parks in Columbia's blockbuster hit, The Jolson Story. She followed this up with an enjoyable minor screwball comedy, The Mating of Millie, with Glenn Ford. She was then in a 1949 role as Kathy Flannigan in Mrs. Mike. Keyes' last major film role was a small part as Tom Ewell's vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which starred Marilyn Monroe. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued to act.
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Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
as Self (archive footage)
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
as Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
as Self
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
as Self
Glorious Technicolor
as Self
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
as Self
Wicked Stepmother
as Witch Instructor
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
as Self
A Return to Salem's Lot
as Mrs. Axel
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
as Self
No Poster
A Matter of Diamonds
as Mrs. Panzack
Around the World in 80 Days
as Paris Tart
The Seven Year Itch
as Helen Sherman
Top of the World
as Virgie Rayne
Hell's Half Acre
as Donna Williams
99 River Street
as Linda James
Rough Shoot
as Cecily
It Happened in Paris
as Patricia Moran
One Big Affair
as Jean Harper
Iron Man
as Rose Warren Mason
The Prowler
as Susan Gilvray
Smuggler's Island
as Vivian Craig
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Sheila Bennet
Mrs. Mike
as Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
Mr. Soft Touch
as Jenny Jones
Enchantment
as Grizel Dane
The Mating of Millie
as Millie McGonigle
Johnny O'Clock
as Nancy Hobson
The Jolson Story
as Julie Benson
The Thrill of Brazil
as Vicki Dean
Renegades
as Hannah Brockway
A Thousand and One Nights
as Babs The Genie
Strange Affair
as Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison
Nine Girls
as Mary O'Ryan
There's Something About a Soldier
as Carol Harkness
Dangerous Blondes
as Jane Craig
The Desperadoes
as Allison McLeod
Flight Lieutenant
as Susie Thompson
The Adventures of Martin Eden
as Ruth Morley
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Ladies in Retirement
as Lucy
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Bette Logan
The Face Behind the Mask
as Helen Williams
Beyond the Sacramento
as Lynn Perry
Before I Hang
as Martha Garth
The Lady in Question
as Francois Morestan
Slightly Honorable
as Miss Vlissingen
Gone with the Wind
as Suellen O'Hara
Union Pacific
as Mrs. Calvin
Sudden Money
as Mary Patterson
Paris Honeymoon
as Village Girl (uncredited)
Artists and Models Abroad
as Girl (uncredited)
Sons of the Legion
as Linda Lee
Men with Wings
as Nurse
Dangerous to Know
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Buccaneer
as Madeleine