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...veneration of a book that stereotypes blacks. Butterfly McQueen, 75, who played the movie role of Prissy, Miss Scarlett's maid, showed up with tongue firmly in cheek. Handed an album of the stamps, she repeated her most famous GWTW line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies...
...Producer David 0. Selznick. He gave her the role of Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's neurasthenic maid, in his 1939 production of Gone With the Wind. As Atlanta burned, Butterfly gave haunting memory to the line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Looking as fresh and freckle-faced as ever, Butterfly and her quavery drawl have now returned to Atlanta. Still a part-time playground assistant in Harlem, she will act as hostess for the Gone With the Wind Museum for the next four months. Then, who knows? After...
...comic technique, she never sacrifices her role to the easy laugh; the development of her character through the years is the rock on which Gone With the Wind is built. Indeed, all the Negroes (even Butterfly McQueen, with the immortal "Lawsy, Miz Scahlet, Ah don' know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!") are so carefully individualized as characters that it is absurd to label them stereotypes or criticize the film for racial naivete...