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Evelyn Keyes is a Actor American born on 20 november 1916 at Port Arthur (USA)

Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Keyes
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Birth name Evelyn Louise Keyes
Nationality USA
Birth 20 november 1916 at Port Arthur (USA)
Death 4 july 2008 (at 91 years) at Montecito (USA)

Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

Biography

She was married to Barton Oliver Bainbridge Sr. from 1938 until his death from suicide in 1940. Later, she married and divorced director Charles Vidor (1943–1945), actor/director John Huston (23 July 1946 – February 1950), and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957–1985). Keyes said of her many relationships, "I always took up with 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 expressed her opinion that Mrs. Mike was her best film. She also wrote of the personal cost she paid by having an abortion just before Gone with the Wind was to begin filming, as the experience left her unable to have children. Among the many Hollywood affairs she recounted in "Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister" were those with producer Michael Todd (who left Evelyn for Elizabeth Taylor), Glenn Ford, Sterling Hayden, Dick Powell, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Kirk Douglas. She had to fend off Harry Cohn's advances during her career in Columbia.

Keyes was a registered Democrat who supported the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Best films

The Jolson Story (1946)
(Actress)
The Desperadoes (1943)
(Actress)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Evelyn Keyes (44 films)

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Actress

Wicked Stepmother, 1h30
Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film
Actors Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, Lionel Stander, David Rasche, Tom Bosley
Roles Witch Instructor
Rating39% 1.962691.962691.962691.962691.96269
The original plot cast Davis as the title character, a chain smoking witch named Miranda, who has married Sam while his vegetarian daughter Jenny and son-in-law Steve are on vacation. They return to find their new stepmother has filled their refrigerator with meat and played havoc with their collection of herbs. To explain Davis' absence, the script was rewritten to introduce Miranda's daughter Priscilla, who takes on a human form while her mother's spirit inhabits the body of a cat. Priscilla then sets out to get Jenny who has figured out that there is something going on. She accuses her of messing up the kitchen while Jenny's on a bike ride. Priscilla ends up sleeping with Jenny's husband. The entire time she refuses to switch bodies with Miranda. Jenny then figures out that they're witches and tries to stop them from ruining her family.
A Return to Salem's Lot, 1h41
Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller, Evelyn Keyes, June Havoc, Ronee Blakley
Roles Mrs. Axel
Rating43% 2.197912.197912.197912.197912.19791
Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son and who returns to Salem's Lot, the town of his birth, to find that it has been taken over by the undead. A few living people are kept around to provide blood for the vampires and to operate the gas station and shops in the daytime. Knowing of the anthropologist's refusal to moralise about other people's lifestyles (in the opening scene he is seen refusing to interfere in a human sacrifice and concerned only for the quality of the film he is shooting), the vampires employ him to write their story. As the vampires' evil nature becomes clear, the anthropologist is joined by a Nazi hunter (played by Samuel Fuller) who helps him save his son, and at the climax the master vampire is impaled on the American flag instead of the traditional stake. As the trio escapes Salem's Lot, the vampires are left in the sun to burn along with their homes.
Around the World in Eighty Days, 2h47
Directed by John Farrow, Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke
Roles Paris Tart
Rating66% 3.349553.349553.349553.349553.34955
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
The Seven Year Itch, 1h40
Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Robert Strauss, Sonny Tufts, Oskar Homolka
Roles Helen Sherman
Rating70% 3.5497653.5497653.5497653.5497653.549765
Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a nerdy, faithful, middle-aged publishing executive with an overactive imagination and a mid-life crisis, whose wife Helen (Evelyn Keyes) and son Ricky (Butch Bernard) are spending the summer in Maine. When he returns home with the kayak paddle Ricky accidentally left behind, he meets a woman (Marilyn Monroe), a commercial actress and former model who rents the apartment upstairs while in town to make television spots for a brand of toothpaste. That evening, he works on proofreading a book in which psychiatrist Dr. Brubaker (Oskar Homolka) claims that a significant proportion of men have extra-marital affairs in the seventh year of marriage. He has an imaginary conversation with Helen, trying to convince her, in three fantasy sequences, that he is irresistible to women, including his secretary, a nurse and her bridesmaid, but she laughs it off. A tomato plant then crashes into his lounge chair; the woman upstairs apologizes for accidentally knocking it over, and Richard invites her down for a drink.
Top Of The World, 1h31
Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Dale Robertson, Evelyn Keyes, Frank Lovejoy, Nancy Gates, Robert Arthur, Paul Fix
Roles Virgie Rayne
Rating59% 2.9571952.9571952.9571952.9571952.957195
This script must be run from the command line
Hell's Half Acre, 1h30
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Noir, Crime
Actors Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, Nancy Gates, Leonard Strong
Roles Donna Williams
Rating62% 3.142243.142243.142243.142243.14224
The drama related the tale of ex-racketeer Chet Chester (Corey) who is blackmailed by his former criminal partners.
Rough Shoot, 1h28
Directed by Robert Parrish
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Joel McCrea, Evelyn Keyes, Herbert Lom, Roland Culver, Marius Goring, Frank Lawton
Roles Cecily Paine
Rating60% 3.0497653.0497653.0497653.0497653.049765
A retired American army officer living in the English countryside shoots at a man he takes to be a poacher. Believing he has killed him he goes on the run from the British police and security service.
99 River Street, 1h23
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle, Jay Adler
Roles Linda James
Rating73% 3.6922153.6922153.6922153.6922153.692215
Ernie Driscoll is a former boxer who had to give up prize fighting after sustaining an injury in the ring and is now a New York taxi driver.
One Big Affair, 1h20
Directed by Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Evelyn Keyes, Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Anderson, Connie Gilchrist, Thurston Hall, Gus Schilling
Roles Jean Harper
Rating56% 2.829292.829292.829292.829292.82929
This script must be run from the command line
It Happened in Paris, 1h30
Directed by John Berry
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Evelyn Keyes, Henri Vidal, André Roanne, Germaine Reuver, Marcel Charvey, Émile Genevois
Roles Patricia Moran
Rating61% 3.07223.07223.07223.07223.0722
Patricia, une richissime Américaine, vient à Paris passer quelques jours chez son oncle. Éprise de liberté, elle sort seule et fait la connaissance dans un bar d'un escroc qui se fait passer pour un prince russe, Wladimir. Patricia tombe amoureuse de ce charmant compagnon mais son père, alerté par l'oncle de Paris, lui ordonne de regagner New York. La jeune fille refuse, mais se voit couper les vivres. C'est donc Wladimir et ses deux complices qui règlent désormais ses factures. Décidé à jouer le tout pour le tout, Wladimir demande Patricia en mariage. Le père refuse et déshérite sa fille. Mais Wladimir aime sincèrement la jeune fille et veut renoncer à ses projets malhonnêtes. Les deux complices ne l'entendent pas ainsi et réussissent à obtenir cinq millions de l'oncle. À la suite d'un concours de circonstances, c'est Wladimir et Patricia qui bénéficieront de cette aubaine.
The Prowler, 1h32
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy, Madge Blake, Wheaton Chambers
Roles Susan Gilvray
Rating71% 3.5946853.5946853.5946853.5946853.594685
Webb Garwood, a disgruntled cop, is called to investigate a voyeur by Susan Gilvray. Her husband works nights as an overnight radio personality. The cop falls in love with the young and attractive married woman.
Iron Man
Iron Man (1951)
, 1h21
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson, Jim Backus, James Arness
Roles Rose Warren Mason
Rating62% 3.125013.125013.125013.125013.12501
Chandler plays a coal miner who is encouraged by his gambler brother (Stephen McNally) to become a boxer. The problem is when he boxes he is consumed by a murderous rage.
The Killer That Stalked New York, 1h19
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright, Barry Kelley, Carl Benton Reid
Roles Sheila Bennet
Rating63% 3.196543.196543.196543.196543.19654
Arriving at New York City's Pennsylvania Station after a trip to Cuba, Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Keyes), who is smuggling $50,000 worth of diamonds into the country, realizes she's being followed by the authorities. She mails the diamonds to her husband, Matt Krane (Charles Korvin), instead of carrying them around, and then tries to shake the Treasury agent following her.