Mickey Kuhn, the busy baby actor of the Thirties and ’40s who performed Beau Wilkes, the son of Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard’s characters, in Gone With the Wind, has died. He was 90.

Kuhn died Sunday in a hospice facility in Naples, Florida, his spouse, Barbara, informed The truestarz. He was in glorious well being till not too long ago, she mentioned.

Kuhn additionally portrayed the ward of a well-known film cop in Dick Tracy (1945) and youthful variations of Kirk Douglas and Montgomery Clift in The Unusual Love of Martha Ivers (1946) and John Wayne’s Pink River (1948), respectively.

And in A Streetcar Named Want (1951), Kuhn reunited with GWTW actress Vivien Leigh to seem as a sailor who offers Blanche DuBois instructions. (Was he Leigh’s good luck attraction? She received her two greatest actress Oscars with him within the forged.)

Kuhn was 6 when he made Gone With the Wind (1939), and in a 2014 interview with The Washington Publish, he recalled how he stored flubbing a scene with Clark Gable. “My line was, ‘Hey, Uncle Rhett,’” he mentioned. “I stored saying, ‘Hey, Uncle Clark.’” It took him just a few takes to get it proper.

In one other scene, Kuhn seems within the arms of his father, Ashley (Howard), outdoors the bed room the place his mother, Melanie (de Havilland), is deathly unwell. “The place is my mom going away to? And why can’t I’m going alongside, please?” he asks.

He by no means appeared onscreen with de Havilland and mentioned he didn’t meet her till she celebrated her ninetieth birthday in California in 2006. After that, he referred to as her yearly on her birthday, he informed the Naples Day by day Information in 2017.

In all, Kuhn labored in six movies launched in 1939, together with King of the Underworld, starring Humphrey Bogart; Juarez, that includes Bette Davis and Paul Muni (he made $100 every week for taking part in a Mexican crown prince, he mentioned); and When Tomorrow Comes, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.

His big-screen résumé additionally included two James Stewart movies, Magic City (1947) and Damaged Arrow (1950), in addition to I Need a Divorce (1940), One Foot in Heaven (1941), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Looking out Wind (1946), Excessive Conquest (1947) and Scene of the Crime (1949).

Theodore Matthew Michael Kuhn Jr. was born on Sept. 21, 1932, in Waukegan, Illinois. He and his household moved to Los Angeles, the place his father would work as a meat cutter for Safeway. At age 2, he appeared as an adopted child in Change of Coronary heart (1934), starring Janet Gaynor.

“My mom and I had been in Sears Roebuck on Santa Monica and Western when a woman stopped my mom and mentioned that Fox Studio was searching for twin infants for a film they had been taking pictures,” he mentioned in a 2008 interview for the web site Movies of the Golden Age. “She had a child woman that regarded rather a lot like me and thought we may very well be forged. Nicely, we went over there, and I, however not the woman’s child, was forged.”

His dad and mom enrolled him within the Mar-Ken Faculty for show-business youngsters, and he was buddies with brothers Darryl and Dwayne Hickman.

After a day at work at Republic Photos on S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939), he and his mother went to Culver Metropolis to interview for Gone With the Wind. There have been “sixty to eighty youngsters and adults on the casting workplace,” he remembered.

“I began crying and wished to go away, however Mother mentioned to go up and provides my identify to the woman on the desk. If in 10 minutes I hadn’t been referred to as, then we would depart. I went to the woman and mentioned, ‘I’m Mickey Kuhn.’ She mentioned, ‘Mickey, we’ve been ready for you.’ After which to the others ready, ‘Thanks, we’ve forged the half. It’s possible you’ll all go away.’”

The Pink River script referred to as for Wayne to smack him. “He truly hit me backhanded,” Kuhn mentioned. “He informed me he was [going to do it]. He mentioned it will look higher that method. We did it in a single take.”

In 1951, Kuhn started a four-year stint within the U.S. Navy and labored as an plane electrician. After the service, he appeared in The Final Frontier (1955) and Away All Boats (1956) and on three 1957 episodes of CBS’ Alfred Hitchcock Presents earlier than calling it quits as an actor.

He labored in airport administration for American Airways and at terminals in Washington and Boston earlier than retiring in 1995.

Along with his spouse, whom he married in 1985, survivors embody his son, Mick (and his spouse, Jolene), daughter Patricia and granddaughter Samantha.