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Article: Two Acting Icons Die: Butterfly McQueen
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
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- January 3, 1996
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Emanuel Parker
Los Angeles Sentinel
01-03-1996
Two Acting Icons Die: BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN.
Butterfly McQueen, who achieved screen immorality as the young, scatterbrained slave in "Gone With The Wind," died from burns suffered when her clothes caught fire while trying to light a kerosene heater. She was 84.
McQueen was found Friday lying on the sidewalk outside her one-bedroom cottage outside Augusta, Ga., with burns over 70 percent of her body. She died 10 hours later at Augusta Regional Medical Center.
Among the few possessions that firefighters pulled from the ashes of the cottage was a signed scrapbook with "Gone With The Wind" photographs signed by stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
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