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Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister

Evelyn Keyes was a Texas-born actress who became part of Hollywood's studio era, remembered by many as Suellen O'Hara, the younger sister in Gone with the Wind. In this memoir she looks back on her career and her private life, from her early efforts to break into films to the glamour, pressure and disappointments of working within the big studio system. She writes about the men she loved and married, including the director Charles Vidor and the bandleader Artie Shaw, and about the friends and rivals she met along the way. The book is a candid account of what it was like to be an actress in the years when Hollywood ruled popular culture.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 318 pages

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