Evelyn Keyes Interview (May 30, 1978)
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- 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.
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”.[3] 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.[4] (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 (1946). 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.[5] Keyes' last role in a major film 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.
Personal life[edit source]
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),[6][7][8] and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957-1985).[9] Keyes said of her many love affairs: "I always took up with the man of the moment and there were many such moments."[10] While married to Huston, the couple adopted a Mexican child, Pablo, whom Huston had discovered while filming on location in Mexico for 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.[4] 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,[11] as the experience left her unable to have children. Among her many love affairs in Hollywood she recounted in Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister, were those with film producer Michael Todd (who left Evelyn for Elizabeth Taylor), actors Glenn Ford, Sterling Hayden, Dick Powell, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Kirk Douglas. She had to regularly fend off Columbia Pictures studio head Harry Cohn's advances during her career at the studio.
Keyes died on July 4, 2008 from uterine cancer at the Pepper Estates in Montecito, California.[12] She was cremated with her ashes being divided among her relatives with the remaining half sent to Lamar University in Port Arthur, Texas and the last of the cremated remains being buried with her relatives in the family plot at The Waco Baptist Church Cemetery, Waco, Georgia, with a small tombstone with the epitaph Gone with the Wind, where her ashes were buried in October 2008.[12]
Wonderful Evelyn Keyes. Thanks for posting.
I loved her in 'The Killer That Stalked New York'.
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She was a doll as an actress. So petite and smart and funny.
She married guys who were narcissistic. Huston and Shaw?
Total narcissists.
Just watched her in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Neat to see the poster for Heaven Can Wait behind her. She was 24 in Here Comes Mr. Jordan and 61 in this interview. Her candor is pretty neat.
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She was so annoying! Saw the itnerview she did with Merv Griffin and also annoying. Hard to relate to - her manner is so off-putting. Not sure how Artie Shaw stayed with her so long when with the others they barely lasted 2 years. That would be interesting to have asked him. Quite the narcissist it seems as she can only talk about herself . Very self-consumed.
The saying goes, if you don't blow your own horn, no one else will. Her autobiography is said to be one of the best from film stars of her era. Elsewhere, she admitted to not being great at relationships, and had many of them. Perhaps that related to losing her father at a very young age. Have seen her in two Noir films in the past two weeks, Johnny O'Clock and Mr. Soft Touch, and she gave very good credible and engaging performances in both. But I ended up watching very little of this interview, not annoying, just not interesting!
Evelyn is being interviewed about her career, so of course she talks about herself. Her memoir is blisteringly honest, a fascinating, often self-deprecating account of her life. She was an intelligent, skilful actress, much underrated, whose career was maliciously sabotaged by Harry Cohn. Your snide comments about her relationships are pathetic.
Well, the interview was conducted to promote a book she'd written about her life as an actress, etc. Logically the questions are focused on the subject of the book -her and her life. The answers are naturally about her and her life. No surprise there.
WTF ….
What should she talk about in an interview about herself?