Butterfly McQueen (1911 - 1995) بترفلاي ماكوين

Filmography

• Actor (5)
  • • 
    • • Duel in the Sun
      • 1946 - Movie
  • • 
    • • Flame of Barbary Coast
      • 1945 - Movie
  • • 
    • • Cabin in the Sky
      • 1943 - Movie
  • • 
    • • The Women
      • 1939 - Movie
  • • 
    • • Gone with the Wind
      • 1939 - Movie

More details

• An African-American actress, born in Tampa, Florida, USA, as Thelma McQueen. She attended public school in Augusta, Georgia, and graduated from high school in Long Island, New...Read more York. She studied dance with Katherine Dunham. She danced with the Venezuela Jones Negro Youth Group. She performed the Butterfly Ballet in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a Shakespeare production, in 1935. She obtained her nickname "Butterfly" and continued appearing in stage shows. She continued to work in theater, cinema, TV, and radio. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from the City College of New York in 1975, when she was 64 years old. She gained recognition for her role as a silly maid in Gone with the Wind (1939). She is known for The Mosquito Coast (1986), Affectionately Yours (1941), and ABC Afterschool Specials (1979). She passed away from severe burns caused by a fire in her bedroom on December 22, 1995, in Augusta, Georgia, USA.

• Nationality:
• US

• Date of Birth:
• 7 January 1911

• Died on:
• 22 December 1995

Crew worked with

• • Yakima Canutt
• • Eddie Rochester Anderson
• • Dale Van Sickel
• • Daisy Bufford
• • Oscar Polk
• • Virginia Grey

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