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Evelyn Keyes
Port Arthur, Texas, USA
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,…
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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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2020
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Movie Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife
- 2003
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2000
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Movie Self
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1998
Glorious Technicolor
Movie Self
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1990
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Movie Self
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1989
Wicked Stepmother
Movie Witch Instructor
- 1988
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1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self
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1987
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
Movie Self
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1987
A Return to Salem's Lot
Movie Mrs. Axel
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1985
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
Movie Self
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1985
Amazing Stories
TV show Evelyn Chumsky
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Edna
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1968
A Matter of Diamonds
Movie Mrs. Panzack
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1967
ITV Playhouse
TV show Mrs. Panzack
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1956
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie Paris Tart
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1955
The Seven Year Itch
Movie Helen Sherman
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1955
Top of the World
Movie Virgie Rayne
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1954
Climax!
TV show Drusilla Cayley
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1954
Hell's Half Acre
Movie Donna Williams
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1953
99 River Street
Movie Linda James
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1953
Rough Shoot
Movie Cecily
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1952
It Happened in Paris
Movie Patricia Moran
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1952
One Big Affair
Movie Jean Harper
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1951
Iron Man
Movie Rose Warren Mason
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1951
The Prowler
Movie Susan Gilvray
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1951
Smuggler's Island
Movie Vivian Craig
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1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
Movie Sheila Bennet
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Jane
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1949
Mrs. Mike
Movie Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
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1949
Mr. Soft Touch
Movie Jenny Jones
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1948
Enchantment
Movie Grizel Dane
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1948
The Mating of Millie
Movie Millie McGonigle
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1947
Johnny O'Clock
Movie Nancy Hobson
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1946
The Jolson Story
Movie Julie Benson
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1946
The Thrill of Brazil
Movie Vicki Dean
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1946
Renegades
Movie Hannah Brockway
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1945
A Thousand and One Nights
Movie Babs The Genie
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1944
Strange Affair
Movie Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison
