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EVELYN KEYES (fue una actriz de cine estadounidense)

Biografía

Biografía

EVELYN LOUISE KEYES, más conocida como EVELYN KEYES (20 de noviembre de 1916 – 4 de julio de 2008) fue una actriz de cine estadounidense. Es mejor conocida por su papel de Suellen O’Hara en la película de 1939 Lo que el viento se llevó.

 

Biografía y carrera

Evelyn Keyes nació en Port Arthur, Texas, de Omar Dow Keyes y Maude Ollive Keyes, la hija de un ministro metodista. Después de que Omar Keyes murió cuando ella tenía tres años, Keyes se mudó con su madre a Atlanta, Georgia, donde vivían con sus abuelos. Cuando era adolescente, Keyes tomó lecciones de baile y actuó en clubes locales como Daughters of the Confederacy.

 

Después de un puñado de películas de serie B en Paramount Pictures, consiguió un papel menor en Lo que el viento se llevó (1939), el de la hermana de Scarlett O’Hara, Suellen. (Más tarde fue entrevistada para el documental de 1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind).

 

Columbia Pictures la firmó con un contrato. En 1941, interpretó a una ingenua en Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Pasó la mayor parte de la década de 1940 interpretando papeles principales en muchos de los dramas y misterios B de Columbia. Apareció como la protagonista femenina junto a Larry Parks en el éxito de taquilla de Columbia The Jolson Story (1946). Siguió esto con una divertida comedia loca menor, The Mating of Millie , con Glenn Ford. En 1949 interpretó el papel de Kathy Flannigan en Mrs. Mike.

 

El último papel de Keyes en una película importante fue un pequeño papel como la esposa de vacaciones de Tom Ewell en The Seven Year Itch.(1955), protagonizada por Marilyn Monroe. Keyes se retiró oficialmente en 1956, pero continuó actuando.

 

Keyes murió el 4 de julio de 2008 de cáncer de útero en Pepper Estates en Montecito, California.

Biography

Wikipedia in English

 

EVELYN LOUISE KEYES, better known as EVELYN 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 and career

Evelyn Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, to Omar Dow Keyes and Maude Ollive Keyes, the daughter of a Methodist minister. After Omar Keyes died when she was three years old, Keyes moved with her mother to Atlanta, Georgia, where they lived with her grandparents. As a teenager, Keyes took dance lessons and performed at local clubs like Daughters of the Confederacy.

After a handful of B-movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed a minor role in Gone with the Wind (1939), that 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 a naive in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. He spent most of the 1940s playing lead roles in many of Columbia’s B-dramas and mysteries. She appeared as the female lead alongside Larry Parks in the Columbia blockbuster The Jolson Story (1946). He followed this up with a fun minor wacky comedy, The Mating of Millie, with Glenn Ford. In 1949 she played the role of Kathy Flannigan in Mrs. Mike.

 

Keyes’s last major movie role was a small role as Tom Ewell’s vacation wife in The Seven Year Itch. (1955), starring Marilyn Monroe. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued acting.

 

Keyes died on July 4, 2008 of uterine cancer at Pepper Estates in Montecito, California.

 

Filmography

Cinema

1938 The Buccaneer

1938 Sons of the Legion

1939 Sudden money

1939 Union Pacific

1939 Gone with the Wind

1939 Slightly honorable

1940 The Lady in Question

1940 Before hanging

1940 Beyond the Sacrament

1941 The face behind the mask

1941 Here comes the lord

1941 Ladies in Retirement

1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden

1942 Aviation Lieutenant

1943 The Desperate

1943 Dangerous Blondes

1943 Something Happens to a Soldier

1944 Nine girls

1944 Strange Affair

1945 One Thousand and One Nights

1946 Forsaken

1946 The emotion of Brazil

1946 The Jolson Story

1947 Johnny O’Clock

1948 Millie’s mating

1948 Enchantment

1949 Mr. Soft Touch

1949 Mrs. Mike Kathy O’Fallon

1950 The Killer Who Stalked New York

1951 Smuggler’s Island

1951 The Marauder

1951 Man of Steel

1952 A Big Affair

1952 It happened in Paris

1953 Rough Shot

1953 99 River Street

1954 Half an acre from Hell

1955 Top of the world

1955 The Seven Year Itch

1956 Around the world in 80 days

1987 Return to Salem’s Lot 1938

1938 Sons of the Legion

1939 Sudden money

1939 Union Pacific

1939 Gone with the Wind

1939 Slightly honorable

1940 The Lady in Question

1940 Before hanging

1940 Beyond the Sacrament

1941 The face behind the mask

1941 Here comes Mr. Jordan

1941 Ladies in Retirement

1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden

1942 Aviation Lieutenant

1943 The Desperate

1943 Dangerous Blondes

1943 Something Happens to a Soldier

1944 Nine girls

1944 Strange Affair

1945 One Thousand and One Nights

1946 Forsaken

1946 The emotion of Brazil

1946 The Jolson Story

1947 Johnny O’Clock

1948 Millie’s mating

1948 Enchantment

1949 Mr. Soft Touch

1949 Mrs. Mike Kathy O’Fallon

1950 The Killer Who Stalked New York

1951 Smuggler’s Island

1951 The Marauder

1951 Man of Steel

1952 A Big Affair

1952 It happened in Paris

1953 Rough Shot

1953 99 River Street

1954 Half an acre from Hell

1955 Top of the world

1955 The Seven Year Itch

1956 Around the world in 80 days

1987 Return to Salem’s Lot.

 

TV

1951 Video theater

1955 Climax!

1968 Theater

1968 The ugliest girl in town

1971 A bird’s eye view

1983 The Love Boat

1985, 1987, 1993 Murder, she wrote.

⭐ Nació: 20/11/1916 ⚰ Murió: 04/07/2008

EVELYN LOUISE KEYES, más conocida como EVELYN KEYES (20 de noviembre de 1916 – 4 de julio de 2008) fue una actriz de cine estadounidense. Es mejor conocida por su papel de Suellen O’Hara en la película de 1939 Lo que el viento se llevó.

 

Biografía y carrera

Evelyn Keyes nació en Port Arthur, Texas, de Omar Dow Keyes y Maude Ollive Keyes, la hija de un ministro metodista. Después de que Omar Keyes murió cuando ella tenía tres años, Keyes se mudó con su madre a Atlanta, Georgia, donde vivían con sus abuelos. Cuando era adolescente, Keyes tomó lecciones de baile y actuó en clubes locales como Daughters of the Confederacy.

 

Después de un puñado de películas de serie B en Paramount Pictures, consiguió un papel menor en Lo que el viento se llevó (1939), el de la hermana de Scarlett O’Hara, Suellen. (Más tarde fue entrevistada para el documental de 1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind).

 

Columbia Pictures la firmó con un contrato. En 1941, interpretó a una ingenua en Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Pasó la mayor parte de la década de 1940 interpretando papeles principales en muchos de los dramas y misterios B de Columbia. Apareció como la protagonista femenina junto a Larry Parks en el éxito de taquilla de Columbia The Jolson Story (1946). Siguió esto con una divertida comedia loca menor, The Mating of Millie , con Glenn Ford. En 1949 interpretó el papel de Kathy Flannigan en Mrs. Mike.

 

El último papel de Keyes en una película importante fue un pequeño papel como la esposa de vacaciones de Tom Ewell en The Seven Year Itch.(1955), protagonizada por Marilyn Monroe. Keyes se retiró oficialmente en 1956, pero continuó actuando.

 

Keyes murió el 4 de julio de 2008 de cáncer de útero en Pepper Estates en Montecito, California.

Wikipedia in English

 

EVELYN LOUISE KEYES, better known as EVELYN 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 and career

Evelyn Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, to Omar Dow Keyes and Maude Ollive Keyes, the daughter of a Methodist minister. After Omar Keyes died when she was three years old, Keyes moved with her mother to Atlanta, Georgia, where they lived with her grandparents. As a teenager, Keyes took dance lessons and performed at local clubs like Daughters of the Confederacy.

After a handful of B-movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed a minor role in Gone with the Wind (1939), that 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 a naive in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. He spent most of the 1940s playing lead roles in many of Columbia’s B-dramas and mysteries. She appeared as the female lead alongside Larry Parks in the Columbia blockbuster The Jolson Story (1946). He followed this up with a fun minor wacky comedy, The Mating of Millie, with Glenn Ford. In 1949 she played the role of Kathy Flannigan in Mrs. Mike.

 

Keyes’s last major movie role was a small role as Tom Ewell’s vacation wife in The Seven Year Itch. (1955), starring Marilyn Monroe. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued acting.

 

Keyes died on July 4, 2008 of uterine cancer at Pepper Estates in Montecito, California.

 

Filmography

Cinema

1938 The Buccaneer

1938 Sons of the Legion

1939 Sudden money

1939 Union Pacific

1939 Gone with the Wind

1939 Slightly honorable

1940 The Lady in Question

1940 Before hanging

1940 Beyond the Sacrament

1941 The face behind the mask

1941 Here comes the lord

1941 Ladies in Retirement

1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden

1942 Aviation Lieutenant

1943 The Desperate

1943 Dangerous Blondes

1943 Something Happens to a Soldier

1944 Nine girls

1944 Strange Affair

1945 One Thousand and One Nights

1946 Forsaken

1946 The emotion of Brazil

1946 The Jolson Story

1947 Johnny O’Clock

1948 Millie’s mating

1948 Enchantment

1949 Mr. Soft Touch

1949 Mrs. Mike Kathy O’Fallon

1950 The Killer Who Stalked New York

1951 Smuggler’s Island

1951 The Marauder

1951 Man of Steel

1952 A Big Affair

1952 It happened in Paris

1953 Rough Shot

1953 99 River Street

1954 Half an acre from Hell

1955 Top of the world

1955 The Seven Year Itch

1956 Around the world in 80 days

1987 Return to Salem’s Lot 1938

1938 Sons of the Legion

1939 Sudden money

1939 Union Pacific

1939 Gone with the Wind

1939 Slightly honorable

1940 The Lady in Question

1940 Before hanging

1940 Beyond the Sacrament

1941 The face behind the mask

1941 Here comes Mr. Jordan

1941 Ladies in Retirement

1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden

1942 Aviation Lieutenant

1943 The Desperate

1943 Dangerous Blondes

1943 Something Happens to a Soldier

1944 Nine girls

1944 Strange Affair

1945 One Thousand and One Nights

1946 Forsaken

1946 The emotion of Brazil

1946 The Jolson Story

1947 Johnny O’Clock

1948 Millie’s mating

1948 Enchantment

1949 Mr. Soft Touch

1949 Mrs. Mike Kathy O’Fallon

1950 The Killer Who Stalked New York

1951 Smuggler’s Island

1951 The Marauder

1951 Man of Steel

1952 A Big Affair

1952 It happened in Paris

1953 Rough Shot

1953 99 River Street

1954 Half an acre from Hell

1955 Top of the world

1955 The Seven Year Itch

1956 Around the world in 80 days

1987 Return to Salem’s Lot.

 

TV

1951 Video theater

1955 Climax!

1968 Theater

1968 The ugliest girl in town

1971 A bird’s eye view

1983 The Love Boat

1985, 1987, 1993 Murder, she wrote.

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