Artie Shaw
Who was the spouse of Evelyn Keyes from 1957 to 1985?
Evelyn Keyes Evelyn Louise Keyes ( November 20 , 1916 – July 4 , 2008 ) was an American film actress . She is best known for her role as Suellen OHara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind . Early life . 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 dancing lessons and performed for local clubs such as the Daughters of the Confederacy . Film career . 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” . After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures , she landed a minor role in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) , that of Scarlett OHaras sister Suellen . ( She was later interviewed for the 1988 documentary . ) 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 Columbias B dramas and mysteries . She appeared as the female lead opposite Larry Parks in Columbias 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 Ewells vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch ( 1955 ) , which starred Marilyn Monroe . Keyes officially retired in 1956 , but continued to act . Personal life . 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 OHaras 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 OHaras 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 Cohns advances during her career at Columbia . Keyes died on July 4 , 2008 from uterine cancer at the Pepper Estates in Montecito , California . 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 . External links . - Evelyn Keyes , Actress in Gone with the Wind dies at 91 - New York Times Biography - Photos of Evelyn Keyes in The Jolson Story 1946 by Ned Scott