Evelyn Keyes

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Evelyn Keyes
Image:Evelyn Keyes.JPG Evelyn Keyes in 99 River Street (1953)
Birth name	Evelyn Louise Keyes
Born	November 20 1916 (1916-11-20) (age 93) Port Arthur, Texas, United States
Years active	1938 - 1989
Spouse(s)	Barton Bainbridge (1938-1940) Charles Vidor (1943-1945) John Huston (1946-1950) Artie Shaw (1957-1985)

Evelyn Keyes (b. November 20 1916, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress.

1 Film career
2 Personal life
3 Filmography
4 External links

[edit] Film career

A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille. After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed her most notable role, that of Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind (1939). Keyes' last important 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.

[edit] Personal life

She was married to Barton Bainbridge from 1938 until his death in 1940. Later she married and divorced director Charles Vidor (1943 - 1945), actor John Huston (23 July 1946 - 1950), and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957 - 1985). In 2005, Keyes sued Shaw's estate, claiming that she was entitled to one-half of Shaw's estate pursuant to a contract to make a will between them. In July 2006, a Ventura, California jury unanimously held that Keyes was entitled to almost one-half of Shaw's estate, or $1,420,000. [1]

Keyes said of her many relationships, "I was always interested in the man of the moment, and there were many such moments". While married to Huston, the couple adopted a Mexican child, Pablo, whom Huston had discovered while on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Her autobiography, Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood, was published in 1977. Keyes has expressed her opinion that Mrs. Mike was her best film.

She currently resides in Santa Barbara, California.

[edit] Filmography

Wicked Stepmother (1989) as Witch Instructor
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) as Mrs. Axel
Across 110th Street (1972) Cameo
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) as The Flirt
Top of the World (1955) as Virgie Rayne (Mrs. Gannon)
The Seven Year Itch (1955) as Helen Sherman
Hell's Half Acre (1954) as Donna Williams
99 River Street (1953) aka Crosstown as Linda James
Rough Shoot (1953) aka Shoot First (USA) as Cecily Paine
C'est arrivé à Paris (1953) aka It Happened in Paris (USA) as Patricia Moran
One Big Affair (1952) as Jean Harper
Iron Man (1951) as Rose Warren
The Prowler (1951) as Susan Gilvray
Smuggler's Island (1951) as Vivian Craig
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) aka Frightened City (UK) (USA: copyright title) as Sheila Bennet
Mrs. Mike (1949) as Kathy Flannigan
Mr. Soft Touch (1949) aka House of Settlement (UK) as Jenny Jones
Enchantment (1948) as Grizel Dane
The Mating of Millie (1948) as Millie McGonigle
Johnny O'Clock (1947) as Nancy Hobson
The Jolson Story (1946) as Julie Benson
The Thrill of Brazil (1946) as Vicki Dean
Renegades (1946) as Hannah Brockway
A Thousand and One Nights (1945) aka 1001 Nights as the Genie
Strange Affair (1944) as Jacqueline Harrison
Nine Girls (1944) as Mary O'Ryan
There's Something About a Soldier (1943) as Carol Harkness
Dangerous Blondes (1943) as Jane Craig
The Desperadoes (1943) as Allison McLeod
Flight Lieutenant (1942) as Susie Thompson
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) aka High Seas (USA: reissue title) as Ruth Morley
Ladies in Retirement (1941) as Lucy
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) as Bette Logan
The Face Behind the Mask (1941) aka Behind the Mask (UK) as Helen Williams
Beyond the Sacramento (1940) aka Power of Justice (UK) as Lynn Perry
Before I Hang (1940) as Martha Garth
The Lady in Question (1940) as Francois Morestan
Slightly Honorable (1940) as Miss Vlissingen
Gone with the Wind (1939) as Suellen O'Hara
Union Pacific (1939) as Mrs. Calvin
Sudden Money (1939) as Mary Patterson
Paris Honeymoon (1939) (uncredited) as Village Girl
Artists and Models Abroad (1938) aka Stranded in Paris (UK) (uncredited)
Sons of the Legion (1938) as Linda Lee
Men with Wings (1938) (uncredited) Nurse
Dangerous to Know (1938) (uncredited)
The Buccaneer (1938) as Madeleine