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Evelyn Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

orus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
. After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
, she landed her most notable role, that of Scarlett O'Hara
Scarlett O'Hara

Scarlett O'Hara is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later Gone with the Wind . She also is the main character in the 1970 musical Scarlett and the 1991 book Scarlett , a sequel to Gone with the Wind that was written by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in...
's sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
 (1939
1939 in film

The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
). Her 1949
1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
 role as Kathy Flannigan in Mrs. Mike
Mrs. Mike

Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan is a novel by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman set in the Canada wilderness in the early 1900s....
 pushed her to Hollywood stardom. Keyes' last important film role was a small part as Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell was an United States Tony Award-winning actor.Born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Owensboro, Kentucky, Ewell began acting in Summer Stock in 1928 with Don Ameche, before moving to New York, New York in 1931....
's vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a three-act play by George Axelrod. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists....
 (1955
1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
), which starred Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
.






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Evelyn Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Film career

A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
. After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
, she landed her most notable role, that of Scarlett O'Hara
Scarlett O'Hara

Scarlett O'Hara is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later Gone with the Wind . She also is the main character in the 1970 musical Scarlett and the 1991 book Scarlett , a sequel to Gone with the Wind that was written by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in...
's sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
 (1939
1939 in film

The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
). Her 1949
1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
 role as Kathy Flannigan in Mrs. Mike
Mrs. Mike

Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan is a novel by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman set in the Canada wilderness in the early 1900s....
 pushed her to Hollywood stardom. Keyes' last important film role was a small part as Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell was an United States Tony Award-winning actor.Born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Owensboro, Kentucky, Ewell began acting in Summer Stock in 1928 with Don Ameche, before moving to New York, New York in 1931....
's vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a three-act play by George Axelrod. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists....
 (1955
1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
), which starred Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued to act.

Personal life

She was married to Barton Bainbridge from 1938 until his death in 1940. Later she married and divorced director Charles Vidor
Charles Vidor

Charles Vidor was a film director.Born Vidor K?roly to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, he served in the Hungarian Army during World War I....
 (1943–1945), actor/director John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
 (23 July 1946–February 1950), and bandleader
Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
 Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an United States jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of his time....
 (1957–1985). 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
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston's Cinema of the United States feature film adaptation of B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which two United States down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold....
.

Her autobiography, Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood, was published in 1977
1977 in literature

The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
. Keyes expressed her opinion that Mrs. Mike was her best film. She also wrote of the personal cost she paid by having an abortion
Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
 just before Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
 was to begin filming. The experience left her unable to have children.

She died of uterine cancer
Uterine cancer

The term uterine cancer may refer to any of several different types of cancer which occur in the uterus, namely:*Uterine sarcomas: sarcomas of the myometrium, or muscular layer of the uterus, are most commonly leiomyosarcomas....
 on July 4 2008 at her home in Montecito, California
Montecito, California

Montecito is a census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 10,000, although the boundaries are ill-defined....
, near Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the only such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's "South Coast", and is also sometimes referred to...
. She had also suffered from Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease , also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia....
.

Filmography

  • The Buccaneer
    The Buccaneer (1938 film)

    The Buccaneer is a adventure film made by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C....
     (1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Madeleine
  • Dangerous to Know
    Dangerous to Know

    Dangerous to Know is a 1938 in film crime film starring Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, and Anthony Quinn. The movie was directed by Robert Florey....
     (1938) (uncredited)
  • Men with Wings (1938) (uncredited) Nurse
  • Sons of the Legion (1938) as Linda Lee
  • Artists and Models Abroad (1938) aka Stranded in Paris (UK) (uncredited)
  • Paris Honeymoon (1939
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (uncredited) as Village Girl
  • Sudden Money (1939) as Mary Patterson
  • Union Pacific (1939) as Mrs. Calvin
  • Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
     (1939) as Suellen O'Hara
  • Slightly Honorable (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Miss Vlissingen
  • The Lady in Question (1940) as Francois Morestan
  • Before I Hang
    Before I Hang

    Before I Hang is a science fiction, horror film released by Columbia Pictures in 1940 in film, starring Boris Karloff. In the film he plays Dr....
     (1940) as Martha Garth
  • Beyond the Sacramento (1940) aka Power of Justice (UK) as Lynn Perry
  • The Face Behind the Mask (1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
    ) aka Behind the Mask (UK) as Helen Williams
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan
    Here Comes Mr. Jordan

    Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth....
     (1941) as Bette Logan
  • Ladies in Retirement
    Ladies in Retirement

    Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 in film film starring Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy Smith which starred Flora Robson in the lead role....
     (1941) as Lucy
  • The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
    ) aka High Seas (USA reissue title) as Ruth Morley
  • Flight Lieutenant
    Flight Lieutenant

    Flight Lieutenant is a junior Officer #Commissioned officers rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many Commonwealth of Nations countries....
     (1942) as Susie Thompson
  • The Desperadoes (1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    ) as Allison McLeod
  • Dangerous Blondes (1943) as Jane Craig
  • There's Something About a Soldier (1943) as Carol Harkness
  • Nine Girls (1944
    1944 in film

    The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Mary O'Ryan
  • Strange Affair
    Strange Affair

    Strange Affair is the sixteenth album by rock band Wishbone Ash. It is the first album in the band's 21-year history without drummer Steve Upton, who quit the band during the album's recording sessions....
     (1944) as Jacqueline Harrison
  • A Thousand and One Nights
    A Thousand and One Nights (film)

    A Thousand and One Nights is a tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Bagdad of the One Thousand and One Nights, starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jurgens as the princess Aladdin loves....
     (1945
    1945 in film

    The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
    ) aka 1001 Nights as the Genie
  • Renegades (1946 film)|Renegades aka Kansan (1946
    1946 in film

    The year 1946 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Hannah Brockway
  • The Thrill of Brazil (1946) as Vicki Dean
  • The Jolson Story
    The Jolson Story

    The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson....
     (1946) as Julie Benson (a character based on Jolson's wife, Ruby Keeler)
  • Johnny O'Clock
    Johnny O'Clock

    Johnny O'Clock is a United States crime film noir directed by Robert Rossen and written by Robert Rossen, based on a story written by Milton Holmes....
     (1947
    1947 in film

    The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Nancy Hobson
  • The Mating of Millie
    The Mating of Millie

    The Mating of Millie is a 1948 in film romantic comedy film starring Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes. A single woman is willing to go to great lengths to adopt an orphan boy....
     (1948
    1948 in film

    The year 1948 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Millie McGonigle
  • Enchantment
    Enchantment (film)

    Enchantment is a romantic film starring David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, and Jayne Meadows, directed by Irving Reis, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the novel Take Three Tenses by Rumer Godden....
     (1948) as Grizel Dane
  • Mr. Soft Touch (1949
    1949 in film

    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
    ) aka House of Settlement (UK) as Jenny Jones
  • Mrs. Mike
    Mrs. Mike

    Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan is a novel by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman set in the Canada wilderness in the early 1900s....
     (1949) as Kathy Flannigan
  • The Killer That Stalked New York
    The Killer That Stalked New York

    The Killer That Stalked New York is a 1950 in film black-and-white film noir starring Evelyn Keyes. The film, shot in a semi-documentary style, is about diamond Smuggling who unknowingly start a smallpox outbreak in the New York City of 1947....
     (1950
    1950 in film

    The year 1950 in film involved some significant events....
    ) aka Frightened City (UK) (USA copyright title) as Sheila Bennet
  • Smuggler's Island (1951
    1951 in film

    The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Vivian Craig
  • The Prowler
    The Prowler (1951 film)

    The Prowler is a 1951 in film black-and-white thriller film directed by Joseph Losey. The film, considered film noir, was produced by Sam Spiegel ....
     (1951) as Susan Gilvray
  • Iron Man (1951) as Rose Warren
  • One Big Affair (1952
    1952 in film

    The year 1952 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Jean Harper
  • C'est arrivé à Paris (1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    ) aka It Happened in Paris (USA) as Patricia Moran
  • Rough Shoot (1953) aka Shoot First (USA) as Cecily Paine
  • 99 River Street
    99 River Street

    99 River Street is a 1953 in film black and white film. The film, starring John Payne , Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, and Peggie Castle....
     (1953) aka Crosstown as Linda James
  • Hell's Half Acre
    Hell's Half Acre

    Hell?s Half-Acre can refer toin History*area around Lock 38 of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Cuyahoga Valley National Park*a location at the Battle of Stones River...
     (1954
    1954 in film

    The year 1954 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Donna Williams
  • The Seven Year Itch
    The Seven Year Itch

    The Seven Year Itch is a three-act play by George Axelrod. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists....
     (1955
    1955 in film

    The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as Helen Sherman
  • Top of the World (1955) as Virgie Rayne (Mrs. Gannon)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
    Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

    Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
     (1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
    ) as The Flirt
  • Across 110th Street
    Across 110th Street

    Across 110th Street is a 1972 in film American crime-drama film, starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, and Anthony Franciosa, and directed by Barry Shear....
     (1972
    1972 in film

    The year 1972 in film involved some significant events....
    ) cameo
  • A Return to Salem's Lot
    A Return to Salem's Lot

    A Return to Salem's Lot is an 1987 horror film and in-name only sequel to Salem's Lot , screenplay and film director by Larry Cohen. It jettisons Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot and characters to explore the premise of a small town inhabited by vampires....
     (1987
    1987 in film

    Events*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
    ) as Mrs. Axel
  • Wicked Stepmother
    Wicked Stepmother

    Wicked Stepmother is a 1989 United States comedy film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen. It is best known for being the last film of Bette Davis, who withdrew from the project after filming began, citing major problems with the script and the way she was being photographed....
     (1989
    1989 in film

    Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
    ) as Witch Instructor


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