Acting

Butterfly McQueen

Born January 7, 1911 · Tampa, Florida, USA

Died December 22, 1995 · aged 84

Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film Gone with the Wind. She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater. Often typecast as a maid, she said: "I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you got into t…

Known For

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind · 1939

Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast · 1986

The Mosquito Coast

MovieDramaAdventure

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 1945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun · 1946

Duel in the Sun

MovieWesternDrama

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

The Women

The Women · 1939

MovieComedyDrama

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast · 1945

Flame of Barbary Coast

MovieRomanceWestern

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away · 1944

Since You Went Away

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1986

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

MovieDramaFamily

Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization.

Filmography

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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind · 1939

Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Prissy

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast · 1986

The Mosquito Coast

MovieDramaAdventure

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Ma Kennywick

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 1945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Lottie (uncredited)

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun · 1946

Duel in the Sun

MovieWesternDrama

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Vashti

The Women

The Women · 1939

MovieComedyDrama

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Lulu (uncredited)

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast · 1945

Flame of Barbary Coast

MovieRomanceWestern

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Beulah, Flaxen's Maid

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away · 1944

Since You Went Away

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

WAC Sergeant (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1986

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

MovieDramaFamily

Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization.

Blind Negress

Polly

MovieFamilyMusic

An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.

Miss Priss

Affectionately Yours

Affectionately Yours · 1941

Affectionately Yours

MovieComedyRomance

A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.

Butterfly

Cabin in the Sky

Cabin in the Sky · 1943

Cabin in the Sky

MovieMusicFantasy

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.

Lily

Killer Diller

Killer Diller · 1948

MovieComedyDrama

An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.

Butterfly

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace · 1974

A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts.

Clarine

The Phynx

The Phynx · 1970

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

Butterfly McQueen

I Dood It

I Dood It · 1943

MovieMusicComedy

Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.

Annette

Studio One

Studio One · 1948

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

Pearl