Keckley was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and went to school there and in Georgia. Before she acted in films, Keckley performed in
stock theater and in vaudeville. Keckley began her film career in one- and two-reel Westerns in 1911. the 1936 version of
Show Boat, starring
Irene Dunne and
Allan Jones; and
Magnificent Obsession (1935), starring Irene Dunne and
Robert Taylor. She was under contract to Paramount in the late 1930s and early 1940s, where she appeared in her final film,
South of Santa Fe (1942), starring
Roy Rogers. Keckley was married to, and divorced from, actor
Roy Watson. She died on August 14, 1963. ==Filmography==