Reply #292: Actress who peaked at age five.

[Matilda]

Here's one I just noticed from the Sydney Morning Herald - Cammie King Conlon, who played Bonnie Blue Butler in "Gone With The Wind".

"Cammie King Conlon jokingly lamented that she was famous for an experience she barely remembered, portraying Scarlett O'Hara's and Rhett Butler's ill-fated young daughter in the film Gone With the Wind.

"Aged four, she was cast as Bonnie Blue Butler for her resemblance to her film-screen parents - Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable - but her memories of making the epic 1939 Civil War saga were vague, more like ''snapshots'', she often said."

(snip)

"Of her part in one of the best films of all time, Conlon liked to say: ''I peaked at age five.'"


http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/actor-peaked-at-age-five-20100909-1533l.html


I have to confess, I never even knew her name, but she does have a claim to a little piece of history.