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Butterfly McQueen ?

posted 16 years ago by rhonda-yates
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In the opening scene a number of field hands stand up in the cotton field when they hear the showboat coming. One of them looks like Butterfly McQueen, but it happens so fast its hard to be sure. This was about twelve years after GWTW, but she didn't change much for many years. She isn't credited, but could it be her?

[–] justoldbill 16 years ago

It's unlikely. I've read that the initial scenes with the black extras and the crowd running toward the boat were filmed "on location" with local talent when they were filming "atmosphere" shots in the South. The shots underneath the credits are supposedly of the Mississippi itself.