Butterfly McQueen Remembered

by Stephen Bourne

Butterfly McQueen will always be remembered for her first screen role--as Scarlett O'Hara's hysterical servant girl, Prissy, in Gone With the Wind (1939)--and for her most famous line in the Civil War epic: "I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies " Though many criticized her for playing an offensive caricature of black womanhood, film scholar Donald Bogle claims her performance is "a unique combination of the comic and the pathetic." Tired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081086018X
• ISBN13: 9780810860186
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"