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Keyes' last role in a major film was a small part as Tom Ewell's vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch (1955). 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.
Sposata quattro volte, fu moglie dei registi Charles Vidor e John Huston, e del musicista Artie Shaw. I tempestosi matrimoni, descritti in una franca e piccante autobiografia [1], hanno prolungato la fama dell'attrice malgrado il suo prematuro ritiro dall'attività artistica [2] .
She was married several times, most notably to director John Huston. Her personal life was subject to the same peaks and valleys as her professional one, with passionate love affairs that mirrored the drama of the roles she played. As the Golden Age of Hollywood began to dim, so did Keyes’s career in the limelight.
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The marriage soured within a year or so, however, after she took up with Budapest-born director Charles Vidor, who directed three of her pictures: The Lady in Question (1940) (her first at Columbia), Ladies in Retirement (1941) and The Desperadoes (1943).
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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.
In 2005, Shaw's eighth wife, actress Evelyn Keyes, filed suit, seeking one-half of Shaw's estate, pursuant to a contract to make a will between them. In July 2006, a Ventura, California , jury unanimously held that Keyes was entitled to almost one-half of Shaw's estate or $1,420,000.
In Paris, Keyes met the clarinettist Artie Shaw, and in 1957 she became his eighth wife. Keyes returned to acting in 1968, starring with Cliff Richard in a British television play, A Matter of...
