• Name: Butterfly McQueen
• Date of Birth: January 07, 1911
• Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida, USA

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Biography: She was born Thelma McQueen and trained as a dancer. She took her stage name from the "Butterfly Dance" after performing it in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. McQueen made her first fi...( read more )lm in 1939 in what would become her most identifiable role-as Prissy, the young maid in Gone with the Wind. She also played an uncredited bit part as a sales assistant in The Women, filmed after Gone with the Wind but released before it. She continued to play maids and small parts in various films including Since You Went Away (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945) and Duel in the Sun (1946). She also played Butterfly, Mary Livingstone's maid in the Jack Benny radio program, for a time during World War II. But by 1947 had grown tired of the ethnic stereotypes she was required to play and ended her film career. By 1950 she had played another racially-stereotyped role for two years on the television series Beulah, which reunited her with her Gone with the Wind co-star Hattie McDaniel. Her acting roles after this were very few, and she devoted herself to other pursuits including study, and received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1975. She had one more role of some substance in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast. McQueen lived in Aiken, South Carolina and died in Augusta, Georgia as a result of burns received when a kerosene heater she was attempting to light exploded and burst into flames.

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  I LOVE HER !!! she is one of the best actress's omg it was breathe taking

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• Duel in the Sun (Unrated, 1946)
• Mildred Pierce (Unrated, 1945)
• Flame of Barbary Coast (Unrated, 1945)
• Gone With the Wind (G, 1939)
• Killer Diller (PG, )

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