Actress Evelyn Keyes died of cancer on 4 July 2008. Born 20 November 1916 in Port Arthur, Texas, she was one of the last surviving co-stars of Gone with the Wind (she played Suellen O’Hara, Scarlett’s sister). Keyes’s friend, producer Allan Glaser, said the announcement of her death had been delayed until the death certificate was filed.
Her film debut was in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Buccaneer (1938). Her genre roles included Wicked Stepmother (1989), A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987), Amazing Stories (1986), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), and Before I Hang (1940).
She was the author of a novel, I Am a Billboard (1971) and two memoirs, Scarlett O’Hara’s Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and out of Hollywood (1977) and I’ll Think About that Tomorrow (1991).
Keyes was married and divorced four times. Her third husband was director John Huston and her fourth, bandleader Artie Shaw. Her only child was Pablo, who Huston adopted while on a shoot in Mexico, without telling her.