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'Gone with the Wind' child actress dies at 76 - Yahoo! News:

FORT BRAGG, Calif. – Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," has died at the age of 76.

She died of lung cancer Wednesday morning at her Fort Bragg home on California's north coast, said friend Bruce Lewis. Her son, Matthew Ned Conlon, was by her side.

Conlon was picked to play the small, but pivotal role of Bonnie Blue Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic at age 4. Her character's death in a fall from a pony irrevocably damages Rhett and Scarlett's tumultuous marriage.

Conlon also voiced the young doe Faline in Walt Disney's "Bambi" three years later. It would be her final film role.

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[katrinb.livejournal.com]

"Gone With the Wind" wasn't history, it was propaganda. (Although actually, it said more about the history of the times in which it was made than about the actual Civil War and Reconstruction periods.)
I never got past her portrayal of the KKK as the good guys. And I found Scarlett completely unlikable, and Rhett mostly so.