Mickey Kuhn - beloved child star - passes away at age 90

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The acting world is mourning the loss of the last surviving member of the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind, Mickey Kuhn.Kuhn - who was just six years old when he played young Beau Wilkes in Gone With the Wind - passed away at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida at 90 years of age, via THR.

His wife Barbara, who he married in 1985, revealed that her husband was in good health until recently. Mourning: The acting world is mourning the loss of the last surviving member of the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind, Mickey Kuhn Child star: Kuhn - who was just six years old when he played young Beau Wilkes in Gone With the Wind - passed away at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida at 90 years of age, via THR Kuhn was born in 1932 in Waukegan, Illinois, though his parents moved him to Los Angeles at a young age, where his father worked as a meat cutter for Safeway.Kuhn had his first role at just 2 years of age, playing an adopted baby in the 1934 Janet Gaynor film Change of Heart, revealing in a 2008 interview with Films of the Golden Age, how he landed his first role. 'Of course I don't remember this day, but my mother and I were in Sears-Roebuck on Santa Monica and Western when a lady stopped my mother and said that Fox Studio was looking for twin babies for a movie they were shooting,' he said.

Born: Kuhn was born in 1932 in Waukegan, Illinois, though his parents moved him to Los Angeles at a young age, where his father worked as a meat cutter for Safeway'She had a baby girl that looked a lot like me and thought we could be cast.

Well, we went over there, and I, but not the lady's baby, was cast,' he added.He had uncredited roles in 1937's A Doctor's Diary and 1939's King of the Underworld and When Comes Tomorrow, and he.