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Butterfly Mcqueen: Aunt Thelma
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Stage, screen, and radio actress Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen was born in Tampa, Florida, in 1911. Her father was a stevedore and her mother worked as a domestic. When McQueen was five years old, her father deserted the family. In order to support herself and her daughter, Mrs. McQueen sought full-time employment in a number of cities up and down the East Coast, sending Thelma to live with an aunt in Augusta, Georgia, until she had settled on a job as a cook in Harlem. Young Thelma completed her high school education in Babylon, Long Island, after yet another move and went on to study nursing at the Lincoln Training School in the Bronx. In 1934... she joined Venezuela Jones's Harlem-based Youth Theatre Group, and her career took a different turn.
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Butterfly McQueen was born Thelma McQueen on January 8, 1911, in Tampa, Florida. She was the only child of a stevedore and a cleaning woman. She attended grammar school in Augusta, Georgia and graduated from a Long Island, New York high school, where she was able to cultivate her interests in music and dance.
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Butterfly McQueen is superb as "Aunt Thelma", a fairy-godmother who pops into Calvin Brundage's home via the TV set. He's the lucky winner of the "7 wishes sweepstakes" and Aunt Thelma is here to grant them, but not before Calvin learns a few lessons along the way.
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