Evelyn Keyes

format_quote I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

stars  She has one son, Pablo, from her marriage to John Huston. In Huston's autobiography, he writes of how he found the boy while making a movie in Mexico. After finding out the boy was homeless and an orphan, he adopted him and brought him back to the USA, unbeknownst to his wife. He met Evelyn at the airport and shocked her by introducing her to their new son. Evelyn, who ' was not going to spend her life raising other lives', was not pleased. Most of her marriages ended because of her lack of desire to start a family. Pablo eventually married an Irish girl, had three children, and then deserted his family and became a used car dealer.

stars  In 2005, sued Artie Shaw's estate, claiming that she was entitled to one-half of Shaw's estate pursuant to a contract to make a will between them. Shaw died in 2004. 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.

stars  Had an abortion just before Gone with the Wind (1939) was to begin filming. The experience left her unable to bear children.

stars  Her first husband (1938-1940) was businessman Barton Bainbridge. Evelyn left him after a short period of time for the Budapest-born director Charles Vidor, and Bainbridge committed suicide (by gunshot) during the final separation period.

stars  Among the many Hollywood affairs she recounts in her 1977 memoir "Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister" were those to producer Michael Todd, who left Evelyn for Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Kirk Douglas.