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“Ladies, this is Jack, the man who hosts Haveil Havalim!” Haveil Havalim # 173: The Wait for Avrech to Name it Edition is up and live, and hosted by the ever resourceful Jack. Gee willikers, more work! Well, as Orson Welles used to say at the end of his Mercury Theater broadcasts: “I am your obedient servant.” Haveil Havalim #173: The Evelyn Keyes Edition. Evelyn Keyes 1916 - 2008 Actress Evelyn Keyes passed away on July 4th in Montecito California She was 91-years old. Keyes is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara, Scarlett's younger sister in Gone With the Wind, 1939. Keyes was beautiful, and talented. But she's best known for her multiple marriages and numerous affairs with the rich and famous. Her first husband was Barton Bainbridge, a wealthy businessman who committed suicide when Keyes left him for director Charles Vidor. Keyes vowed never to leave a man ever again. She made sure the men left her. The marriage to Vidor lasted one year. Husband number three was writer, actor, director John Huston. Huston was fond of dogs, he had a pack of hounds that ran wild at his estate in Ireland. Keyes hated the dogs so much she used to flee back to Hollywood and take up residence, for months at a time, with best friend Paulette Goddard, real name: Marion Pauline Levy. Finally, Keyes gave Huston an ultimatum: “It's me or the dogs.” Duh. Keyes and Paulette Goddard cut a wide swath through Hollywood's leading men. Keyes conducted torrid affairs with Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Kirk Douglas. Soon, Keyes moved on to producer Mike Todd, but Todd left her for Elizabeth Taylor. Not one to give up, Keyes married band leader Artie Shaw, real name: Arthur Jacob Arshawsky. Not a great move. Shaw had already married and divorced screen legends Lana Turner and Ava Gardner. Both actresses report that Shaw used to beat them up when they refused to iron his shirts and sort his socks. Needless to say, Keyes didn't do shirts or socks either. Keyes' last role in a major motion picture was in The Seven Year Itch (1955) with Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. Keyes, in a finely tuned performance, plays Helen Sherman, the wife who leaves town, kicking off the mad flirtation between Ewell and Monroe. Keyes said of her life in Hollywood: "I always took up with the man of the moment and there were many such moments." Evelyn Keyes, studio publicity shot Make-up test as Suellen O'Hara for Gone With the Wind Keyes authored two autobiographies. In 1977 Keyes published Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister. You can pick up a used copy on Amazon.com for, get this, one single American penny. In 1991 Keyes again weighed in with I'll Think About Tomorrow. Both books concentrate on her passionate romances rather than her career. Great dish. Seraphic Secret Hollywood Profiles Evelyn Keyes: Scarlett's Younger Sister Hollywood Hair Notable Hollywood Eyebrows Cyd Charisse: Dancing Dynamite Lana Turner: Bad and Beautiful Hollywood Goes to War Lillian Gish: Dying for Her Audience Ricardo Cortez: Hollywood's Latin Lover or The Kosher Butcher's Son Hollywood's First Western Hero: Billy Broncho, A Jewish Kid Who Couldn't Ride a Horse Sylvia Sidney Replaces Clara Bow Douglas Sirk Directs Linda Darnell Less Dialogue is More: Mervyn LeRoy, Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor and Waterloo Bridge. Alla Nazimova: Desperately Exotic Charlton Heston: A Moment of Silence Lilyan Tashman. Carmel Myers: The Rabbi's Beautiful Daughter Colleen Moore: The Stars and Stripes Colleen Moore's Wedding Night One Hairstyle, Three Memoirs: Alma Rubens, Colleen Moore, Louise Brooks Theda Bara: The Vamp Adopts the Troops Movie Magazines: They Don't Print 'em Like They Used To Alma Rubens: Dope Fiend, But Not a Jewess Wallace Reid: Hollywood Shooting Star Olive Thomas: Hollywood's First Suicide Mary Pickford: The Greatest Movie Star Seraphic Secret Chats with Actress Coleen Gray about John Wayne, Howard Hawks, and Stanley Kubrick Louis B. Mayer Goes to Shul Susan Peters: The Great Unknown and Tragic Actress The Blond Machine Gun: Jean Harlow Peg Entwistle & The Hollywood Sign Brigitte Bardot & Sean Connery in Shalako—Sorta Michael Kidd: The Last Dance