Mickey Kuhn, a child star who had many credits in the 1930s and 40s. “Gone With the Wind” “A Streetcar Named Desire,”Barbara, his wife, told reporters that he died in Naples, Florida at the age 90.
Kuhn was the last cast member to be credited. “Gone With the Wind,”Beau Wilkes plays the role of Ashley and Melanie Wilkes’ son. Kuhn’s most well-known line comes near the end of the film, when Melanie is on her deathbed from pregnancy complications and Beau asks his father, “Where is my mother going away to? And why can’t I go along, please?”
Kuhn, de Havilland and their mother-son relationship was portrayed by them separately. They never met and never appeared together on-screen. He told the reporter that he was actually proud of his character. Naples Daily News in 2017 that his first meeting with de Havilland didn’t come until 2006 on the Oscar-winning actress’ 90th birthday, and he would call her on her birthday every year until her death in 2020.
Kuhn also stated to the Naples Daily News, that his first film role was in 1934 as an infant. “Change of Heart”Starring Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor. The audition was only after Janet Gaynor, a Sears Roebuck woman, told her mother there was an audition on Fox for infants and suggested that they both pass their children off to the Fox as infants. Beau was the only child chosen from hundreds of applicants to be in Beau’s role. “Gone With The Wind”He appeared in films like “The Last of the Mob” five years later. “Juarez”Starring Bette Davis and Paul Muni “Red River” as John Wayne’s adoptive son, and opposite James Stewart in “Broken Arrow.”
1951 saw him play a part in a little role with a friend. “Gone With the Wind” star Vivien Leigh in “A Streetcar Named Desire,”Blanche DuBois receives instructions from Kuhn as a sailor. Kuhn was able to play the role of Blanche DuBois’ sailor in both of her Oscar-winning films.
After a four year stint in the Navy Kuhn retired in 1957 and was cast in three episodes on CBS. “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”Then he was offered a job with American Airlines as an airport manager. He worked in terminals in Washington D.C., Boston and until his retirement in 1995.
Kuhn’s wife Barbara, his son Mick (and Jolene), his daughter Patricia, and granddaughter Samantha are his surviving relatives.
