- Date of Birth: January 07, 1911
- Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida, USA
Butterfly McQueen Biography
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Butterfly McQueen mini-bio: 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 film 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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Abzurdohposted 209 days ago -
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http://www.flixster.com/user/tanyabolotina/quiz/gone-with-the-wind?invitorId=831901874posted 489 days ago -
I LOVE HER !!! she is one of the best actress's omg it was breathe taking
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