Butterfly McQueen

Acting

Butterfly McQueen

Born 1911-01-07 Tampa, Florida, USA 16 films

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 the business. But after I did the same thing over and over, I…

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Filmography

16 films
Polly poster

An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gla…

Polly

★ 8.2 1989

Amazing Grace poster

A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers t…

Amazing Grace

★ 6.8 1974

The Phynx poster

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania…

The Phynx

★ 3.6 1970

Mildred Pierce poster

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful r…

Mildred Pierce

★ 7.6 1945

I Dood It poster

Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry aft…

I Dood It

★ 5.1 1943