Saturday, July 12, 2008

EVELYN KEYES (1916-2008)

Evelyn Keyes, a lovely actress who broke into movies in 1938 and then struck it big by winning the role of Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind (1939), has died of uterine cancer at the age of 91. Keyes also appeared in The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Best Picture winner Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), and was married to and divorced from the great directors Charles Vidor and John Huston, as well as the band leader Artie Shaw. With her passing, there are now only seven surviving members of the cast of Gone with the Wind, one of the most important films ever made: Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Hamilton), Alicia Rhett (India Wilkes), Fred Crane (Stuart Tarleton), Mary Anderson (Maybelle Merriwether), Cammie King (Bonnie Blue Butler), and my friends Mickey Kuhn (Beau Wilkes) and Ann Rutherford (Carreen O'Hara).

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