Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Jan 4, 2014 14:13:26 GMT -5
Alicia Rhett, an actress who played one of the sisters of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind, died Friday . Rhett was the oldest surviving castmember of the 1939 film that starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable , So ,
Still-surviving castmembers include Olivia de Havilland, 97, who played Ashley Wilkes' (Leslie Howard) cousin and wife, Melanie Hamilton; Mary Anderson, 93, who played Maybelle Merriweather; and Mickey Kuhn, 81, who played Beau Wilkes, Farfone said.
Rhett was born Feb. 1, 1915, in Savannah, Ga. She had been living at the retirement community in Charleston since August 2002. In the movie, India Wilkes is a sister of Ashley Wilkes, with whom Scarlett O'Hara is deeply in love before Ashley marries Melanie and Scarlett becomes involved with Rhett Butler.
India was tremendously jealous of Scarlett and saw right through the Southern belle.
Rhett shared one of the most memorable scenes in the film where the ladies, including Leigh and De Havilland, are tensely awaiting the return of their men folk who have gone out into the night to get revenge on the men who attacked Scarlett - while the Union soldiers wait outside their door.
After the release of Gone With The Wind, Rhett left Hollywood and returned to South Carolina where she had spent much of her childhood after her father's death in World War I.
In the movie, she played India Wilkes, a sister of Ashley Wilkes, with whom Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) is deeply in love before Ashley marries Melanie and Scarlett becomes involved with Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).
In addition to being an actress, Rhett also was a portrait artist and illustrator. She sketched her fellow Gone With the Wind actors between takes of the film, Farfone Borts said
Alicia Rhett She was 98 - R.I.P QC
Still-surviving castmembers include Olivia de Havilland, 97, who played Ashley Wilkes' (Leslie Howard) cousin and wife, Melanie Hamilton; Mary Anderson, 93, who played Maybelle Merriweather; and Mickey Kuhn, 81, who played Beau Wilkes, Farfone said.
Rhett was born Feb. 1, 1915, in Savannah, Ga. She had been living at the retirement community in Charleston since August 2002. In the movie, India Wilkes is a sister of Ashley Wilkes, with whom Scarlett O'Hara is deeply in love before Ashley marries Melanie and Scarlett becomes involved with Rhett Butler.
India was tremendously jealous of Scarlett and saw right through the Southern belle.
Rhett shared one of the most memorable scenes in the film where the ladies, including Leigh and De Havilland, are tensely awaiting the return of their men folk who have gone out into the night to get revenge on the men who attacked Scarlett - while the Union soldiers wait outside their door.
After the release of Gone With The Wind, Rhett left Hollywood and returned to South Carolina where she had spent much of her childhood after her father's death in World War I.
In the movie, she played India Wilkes, a sister of Ashley Wilkes, with whom Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) is deeply in love before Ashley marries Melanie and Scarlett becomes involved with Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).
In addition to being an actress, Rhett also was a portrait artist and illustrator. She sketched her fellow Gone With the Wind actors between takes of the film, Farfone Borts said
Alicia Rhett She was 98 - R.I.P QC