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	Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen
		It was on this date, January 8, 1911, that actress Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen was born in Tampa, Florida, the daughter of a stevedore and a domestic worker.
		McQueen's stage and screen career tracks the way many fls were treated in Hollywood and elsewhere in America from the 1920s through the 1950s.
		McQueen left the screen in 1950, working variously as a real-life maid, a waitress, a receptionist, a dance instructor, and a taxi dispatcher, with only occasional acting jobs.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0108almanac.htm (557 words)

	Butterfly McQueen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butterfly_McQueen (266 words)

	African American Registry: Butterfly McQueen, an actress who wanted more . . .
		Thelma McQueen (her birth name) was the daughter of a stevedore and a domestic worker.
		McQueen could not attend Gone With The Wind’s premiere because it was held in a whites only theater, but she was a guest of honor at its 50th anniversary celebration in 1989.
		Butterfly McQueen died from burns suffered in a fire at her home in Augusta, Georgia in 1996.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/651/Butterfly_McQueen_an_actress_who_wanted_more___ (265 words)

	Butterfly McQueen at Reel Classics: Image Credits
		Butterfly with Ethel Waters and company in CABIN IN THE SKY.
		Butterfly with Eleanor Powell in I DOOD IT.
		Butterfly with Vivien Leigh in GONE WITH THE WIND.
	www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Butterfly/butterfly-credits.htm (133 words)

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		Film and stage star Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen died on Dec. 22, 1995, from burns suffered when her nightgown caught fire as she was trying to light a kerosene heater in her small south Augusta home.
		McQueen, who had starred in dozens of fl theatrical performances during the Harlem Renaissance, displayed a genuine comic talent in ways that sadly supported the racist views of fls as incompetent people.
		Butterfly McQueen, best known for her role as "Prissy" in Gone With The Wind died in a tragic accident in Augusta, Georgia involving a kerosene heater that caught the dress she was wearing on fire.
	www.lycoszone.com /info/butterfly-mcqueen.html (376 words)

	African American Actresses: Maids and Mammies
		Butterfly also returned to school, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York College in 1975.
		After essentially fading from public view, Butterfly was in the news again when she sued Greyhound Buslines in 1980.
		Butterfly spent the remainder of her life in New York and Georgia.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_actresses/59980/3 (389 words)

	Fire Claims Gone With the Wind Actress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		McQueen, 84, was critically burned while trying to light a heater Friday and died about 10 hours later at Augusta Regional Medical Center.
		Born Thelma McQueen in Tampa, Florida, to a stevedore and a domestic, McQueen studied nursing in New York, then a teacher suggested she would be a good actress.
		McQueen got the name the nickname Butterfly early in her career after dancing with the Butterfly Ballet in a production of A Midsummer's Night Dream.
	members.tripod.com /~Muendy/fire.html (474 words)

	@ugusta: The Augusta Chronicle Online: Celebrate 2000High school, first place: Butterfly McQueen 02/23/99
		McQueen overcame her humble roots to star in movies and on Broadway.
		Butterfly McQueen was born Thelma McQueen on January 8, 1911, in Tampa, Florida.
		Butterfly McQueen achieved fame primarily as a film actress in the 1940's.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/022399/his_mcqueen.shtml (391 words)

	Butterfly McQueen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		McQueen made her stage debut was in George Abbot's "Brown Sugar", and soon after, in 1939, she appeared as Lulu in "The Women" and in her most famous role,Prissy in "Gone With The Wind".
		From 1947 to 1951 she was a regular on the radio show "Beulah" and then in the TV version 1950-52.
		McQueen died from burns received in a fire, in Augusta, Georgia, on December 22nd 1995.
	www.pnc.com.au /~voyager/voyagerfiles/butterfly.htm (162 words)

	Butterfly Online
		Jim McQueen, running the second of nine tournaments, won the $80 first prize in a controversial match against runner-up Hiep Tran.
		With the match tied at two games a piece and Tran only a few points away from victory, McQueen called for a let in the middle of a long rally after the ball mysteriously dropped off his racket while attempting one of his patented push shots.
		McQueen then scored the last three points of the game to force the match to deuce.
	www.butterflyonline.com /2003/jamboree_2.asp (288 words)

	Butterfly McQueen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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 died in Augusta, Georgia as a result of burns received when a kerosene heater she was attempting to light exploded and doused her in fuel.
	www.ftppro.com /library/Butterfly_McQueen (250 words)

	Tvind Alert investigation - the Butterfly McQueen
		Butterfly McQueen was built to the highest specifications and has made many luxury cruises.
		When it was built the Butterfly McQueen, at 39.7 metres, was reportedly among the world's biggest glass fibre hulled yachts, with a computerised sailing system and luxury accommodation.
		If I remember correctly, Butterfly McQueen was the first fl actress to win an Oscar - for her role in "Gone With The Wind".
	www.tvindalert.com /about/yacht.htm (624 words)

	Freethought Heroine Award
		Interested in purchasing some new furniture, she auditioned for the part of the simple-minded slave Prissy at age 26, and was initially rejected as too old, too plump and too dignified.
		McQueen stole every scene she was in, whether opposite Vivien Leigh or Clark Gable.
		McQueen stayed in touch over the years through exchanged notes, calling her "gentle and kind," and someone willing to speak freely about her atheistic beliefs.
	www.ffrf.org /awards/heroine/1989_mcqueen.php (948 words)

	'The Ol' Tom Cat' and other writings
		Butterfly McQueen, famous for her Academy Award-winning role as Prissy in the classic film "Gone With The Wind," left the contents of a New York bank account to the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, an organization dedicated to the separation of state and church.
		McQueen, a longtime atheist who lived in Augusta, Georgia, died on December 22 of burns suffered when her three-room cottage caught fire.
		Butterfly McQueen will be remembered for her role as Prissy in Gone With The Wind -- and for her many bequests.
	www.positiveatheism.org /writ/ebtomcat.htm (3298 words)

	HERE'S TO A BELOVED BUTTERFLY WHO'S GONE WITH THE WIND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Butterfly McQueen emerged as one of the more beloved character actresses in movie history, in spite of the fact that she only appeared in a half-dozen movies.
		Butterfly McQueen, in spite of her baby voice and her gentle, flighty manner, was a proud and independent woman.
		Thelma McQueen was born in Tampa but was raised in Augusta, Ga. ``My father was a stevedore and my mother was a domestic servant,'' she once told me. ``They sometimes left me with people from Nassau.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp951231/12290089.htm (1006 words)

	metro@ugusta: Movie actress McQueen remembered for kindness 12/22/96
		McQueen for her many roles on the big screen, friends and neighbors will remember a soft-spoken woman who always put others first.
		McQueen never mentioned her mother or father, and at the time of her death there were no relatives mentioned in the will.
		McQueen's request, there were no memorial services and her body was donated to the Medical College of Georgia's Body Donor Program.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/122296/queen.html (472 words)

	BMQhist
		The name Buttefly McQueen came out of Calvin's passion for Stephen King novels, and is the name of one of the characters in one of the novels.
		Butterfly McQueen was different from the other bands performing that night in that it wasn't another mush-rock band, but it was a bit more humorous and in your face than the others (not too much though, heh heh).
		The rival Japanese band which played nothing but the same Luna Sea songs over and over again blaring over their amps, chuckled, except for one of them which I think was genuinely sorry (Takashi was his name, the only one that could speak English well enough).
	www.eden.rutgers.edu /~hanwanan/BMQhist.html (781 words)

	McQueen Family Crest
		McQueen is one of the names derived from the families of the ancient Dalriadan clans of Scotland.
		First found in on the Isles of Skye and Lewis where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Scotland to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
		In the McQueen coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/mcqueen-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (652 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Butterfly McQueen : Biography
		The ensuing two decades were not easy ones for McQueen; she was obliged to accept a dizzying series of clerical and domestic jobs, occasionally resurfacing in short-running stage productions and briefly co-starring as Oriole on TV's Beulah series.
		In 1980, she won an Emmy for her performance in the TV special The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, and in 1986 made her final screen appearance (looking and sounding pretty much as she did back in 1939!) in Peter Weir's The Mosquito Coast.
		Butterfly McQueen was 85 when she died of burns sustained in a fire caused by a faulty kerosene heater.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/42370/bio.jhtml (420 words)

	Don Herron column: A woman of talent and courage
		Butterfly McQueen played Prissy in "Gone With the Wind," one of the best, if more biased, movies Hollywood made in the late 1930s.
		Between the coffee and the neon light and the excitement of meeting McQueen, Xtian had sobered up remarkably, and he and she were having a great conversation about performance and the difficulty of life in the entertainment industry.
		In December 1995, 1 read that McQueen had been terribly burned in a fire in her home and died of her burns.
	archive.recordonline.com /archive/2002/02/06/herron06.htm (1034 words)

	Beulah TV & Radio Show: Part 3: TVparty!
		Butterfly McQueen sued Greyhound Buslines in 1980 when she was assaulted in a bus station by a guard who thought she was a pickpocket.
		Butterfly McQueen was tragically killed from injuries suffered in a kerosene-heater accident at her Augusta home on Dec. 22, 1995.
		Butterfly McQueen was famously quoted as saying, "As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."
	www.tvparty.com /50beulah3.html (1537 words)

	Freethought of the Day
		There are 3 entries for this date: Butterfly McQueen, Stephen Hawking, and Thomas Aikenhead.
		On this day in 1911, Butterfly McQueen was born in Tampa, Fla. Best known for her role as "Prissy" in the 1939 MGM movie "Gone with the Wind," Butterfly was a nearly lifelong atheist.
		Butterfly McQueen became the Freedom From Religion Foundation's premiere Freethought Heroine in 1989.
	www.ffrf.org /day/?day=8&month=1 (608 words)

	Butterfly McQueen Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Butterfly McQueen is best remembered as Prissy, the maid with the high squeaky voice who didn't "know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies" in the classic "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
		Born Thelma McQueen in Tampa, FL, she began her acting career when producer-director George Abbott hired her for the Broadway show "Brown Sugar" in 1937.
		McQueen died in December 1995 from complications caused by burns sustained in a kerosene fire in her Georgia home.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195217 (421 words)

	Moviecrazed
		From racism in Atlanta to the war in Vietnam, Butterfly McQueen didn't hesitate to express her opinion when I interviewed her for The New York Times in 1968.
		Well, Prissy – or Butterfly McQueen, as she is properly known – has alighted again.
		After a recent performance, the actress sat primly in a drab Hotel Dixie room and defended her most famous role as an all-too-valid picture of a particular type of Negro – one for whom she feels a certain pity.
	www.moviecrazed.com /outpast/mcqueen.html (769 words)

	Butterfly McQueen St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Around this time she acquired the nickname "Butterfly"--a tribute to her constantly moving hands--for her performance in the Butterfly Ballet (1935).
		McQueen contributed to that progress when, after bit parts as maids in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Flame of the Barbary Coast (1945),; she abandoned Hollywood to work as a real-life maid, a taxi dispatcher, and a Macy's salesgirl.
		When McQueen finally returned to cinema, playing Clarice in Amazing Grace (1974) and Ma Kennywick in Mosquito Coast (1986),; African American actors ranked among the largest box office draws in the nation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200826 (688 words)

	Lycos Retriever: Search results for butterfly mcqueen
		In the year 2000, the 70th anniversary of Mammy, the Irving Berlin written minstrel musical starring Al Jolson, was reached.
		She is so convincingly evil, mean-spirited, and obnoxious in the role that her peers nominated her for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
		Louise Beavers plays the title role in two episodes from the groundbreaking--if somewhat stereotypic--1950-1953 comedy that co-starred Ruby Dandridge, Butterfly McQueen and Dooley Wilson.
	www.lycos.com /info/butterfly-mcqueen.html (563 words)

	Black Myths and White Columns
		In regard to all three featured fl actors: Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, and Oscar Polk, she has at least one anecdote that enforces the myths that appear in the film.
		While it is possible to dismiss this interplay as simply having fun in a society that was less racially sensitive than our contemporary one, it is more difficult to justify the way Myrick substitutes Butterfly McQueen's name with the name of her character.
		And even though this was all in good fun, perhaps it was this sort of situation that led Butterfly McQueen to make her later career choices.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~ma99/diller/mammy/gone/myrick.html (971 words)

	Boo Radleys \| Butterfly McQueen
		Martin's notes: The first bit of Butterfly McQueen is a steal from the intro to Question off top Moody Blues album Days Of Future Past.
		I always claimed that the lyrics were from an overheard conversation on the top of a bus heading for Kentish Town one dark night but I have a suspicion from listening just now that that could be bollocks.
		Butterfly McQueen had been on Parkinson around that time.
	www.booradleys.co.uk /lyrics.php?id=23 (213 words)

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