Mickey Kuhn, the final surviving credited solid member of the 1939 movie basic Gone With The Wind, died Sunday at a hospice facility in Naples, FL. He was 90.

His dying was introduced in a Fb publish by good friend George Terrell.

A prolific youngster actor of the Nineteen Thirties and ’40s, Kuhn is finest remembered for his position as Gone with the Wind‘s Beau Wilkes, the son of Ashley and Melanie Wilkes (Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland). In his most memorable scene, Kuhn tearfully reacts to Melanie’s dying by asking his father: “The place is my mom going away to? And why can’t I’m going alongside, please?”

De Havilland’s dying in 2020 left Kuhn because the movie’s final surviving credited solid member.

Altough his present enterprise profession would finish by the mid-Nineteen Fifties — he left the enterprise in 1956 — a quick look in 1951’s A Streetcar Named Need earned Kuhn the excellence of being the one actor with roles in each movies starring Vivien Leigh in Oscar-winning performances. Within the second movie, he performed a sailor who provides Leigh’s Blanch DuBois instructions to the streetcar of the title.

As with Gone with the Wind, Kuhn’s different movie roles would place him reverse a few of Hollywood’s best Golden Age stars. In the identical yr, he appeared in Juarez starring Bette Davis, and in 1948 he performed Younger Matt, the adopted son of John Wayne’s character, in Pink River (Montgomery Clift portrayed the grownup Matt).

In 1950, Kuhn had uncredited roles in Damaged Arrow starring James Stewart and the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis comedy That’s My Boy.

After his retirement from appearing in his mid-20s – his last credit score was an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1956 – Kuhn would go on to work for American Airways and the Boston airport. In his later years, he usually visited movie festivals and conventions to greet followers of Gone With The Wind.

Along with his spouse, he’s survived by two kids and different prolonged household.