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361:(eventually released in 1939). Brown recommended that McQueen audition for the film. After Selznick saw her screen test, he never considered anyone else and McQueen was cast in the role that would become her most identifiable โ€“ "Prissy", a simple-minded house maid. She uttered the famous words: "Oh, Miss Scarlett! I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Her distinctive, high-pitched voice was described by a critic as "the itsy-little voice fading over the far horizon of comprehension". While the role is well known to audiences, McQueen did not enjoy playing the part and felt it was demeaning to African-Americans. She was unable to attend the film's premiere because it was held at a 136: 1514: 1500: 205:, where she was educated by nuns at a convent. She had planned to become a nurse until a high-school teacher suggested that she try acting. McQueen initially studied with Janet Collins and danced with the Venezuela Jones Negro Youth Group. Around this time she acquired the nickname "Butterfly" โ€“ a tribute to her constantly moving hands โ€“ for her performance of the Butterfly Ballet in a production of 237: 42: 178:
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 the business. But after I did the same thing over and over, I resented it. I didn't mind being funny, but I didn't like being stupid." She continued as an actress in film in
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honored her with its Freethought Heroine Award. "I'm an atheist," she had declared, "and Christianity appears to me to be the most absurd imposture of all the religions, and I'm puzzled that so many people can't see through a religion that encourages irresponsibility and bigotry."
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In July 1983, a jury awarded McQueen $ 60,000 in a judgment stemming from a lawsuit she filed against two bus terminal security guards. McQueen sued for harassment after she claimed the security guards accused her of being a pickpocket and a vagrant while she was at a
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She told a reporter, "As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion." This quote was used by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in advertisements inside
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Offers for acting roles began to dry up around this time, and she devoted herself to other pursuits including political study. She received a bachelor's degree in
2107: 1246: 2132: 997: 2137: 2122: 2117: 2072: 2037: 542: 151:; January 8, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in films as "Prissy" in 2097: 2127: 2067: 2032: 1455: 1202: 1334: 1219: 1167: 419:, who appeared in the first six episodes before withdrawing due to illness) in another racially stereotyped role on the television series 2112: 2077: 254: 2062: 2047: 1280: 1048: 320: 1551: 2057: 2052: 607: 572: 534: 301: 1420: 824: 273: 1523: 258: 606:
she attempted to light malfunctioned and burst into flames. McQueen donated her body to medical science and remembered the
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James, Edward T.; Sicherman, Barbara; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (2004). Ware, Susan; Braukman, Stacy (eds.).
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MCQUEEN, BUTTERFLY was born 8 January 1911, received Social Security number 123-01-9686 (indicating New York) and,
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McQueen died at age 84 on December 22, 1995, at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, from burns sustained when a
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She lamented that, if humans had focused on Earth and on people, rather than on mythology and on
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McQueen neither married nor had children. She lived in New York in the summer months and in
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episode "Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid" (1979); her performance in the latter earned her a
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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming
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In 1975, aged 64, McQueen received a bachelor's degree in political science from
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in 1975. McQueen played the character of Aunt Thelma, a fairy godmother, in the
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in 1974. She played the Queen of the Field Mice, a character from the original
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the 1940s, and then moved to television acting in the 1950s. She won a 1980
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Hear Butterfly McQueen perform on a broadcast of Dinah Shore's radio show
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From 1950 until 1952, she was featured (and briefly reunited with fellow
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but released before it. She also played Butterfly, Rochester's niece and
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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming
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episode "The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody" (1978) and the
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McQueen was in the original version of the stage musical
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She had an uncredited bit part as a sales assistant in
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in the 1940s. She appeared in an uncredited role in
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Thelma (Butterfly) McQueen

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Tampa, Florida
Augusta, Georgia
City College of New York

Gone with the Wind
Cabin in the Sky
Mildred Pierce
Duel in the Sun
Daytime Emmy Award
ABC Afterschool Special
Tampa, Florida
Augusta, Georgia
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Katherine Dunham
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