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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

 

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

 

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

 

 

 

      

 

 Butterfly McQueen

Butterfly McQueen (January 7, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American film and television actress.

Born Thelma McQueen in Tampa, Florida, she trained as a dancer and 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 appearance playing an uncredited bit part as a sales assistant in The Women in 1939 and later that year filmed what would become her most identifiable role—as Prissy, the young maid in Gone with the Wind, uttering the famous words: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies." 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), 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-sterotyped 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 died in Augusta, Georgia as a result of burns received when a kerosene heater she was attempting to light exploded and burst into flames. A lifelong atheist, she donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.

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Filmography

 

Warner Classics Mega Collection (2005)
237 Movies

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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