Evelyn Louise Keyes

 Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008)

She was best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille. 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. 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. 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.

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 (1946–1950), and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957–1985). All three marriages ended in divorce. Keyes died on July 4, 2008, at age 91, from cancer and complications of Alzheimer's disease. Keyes is buried at Waco Baptist Church Cemetery in Haralson County, Georgia.