BUTTERFLY McQUEEN - CHECK SIGNED & ENDORSED 06/05/1987 - HFSID 221919
Sale Price $225.00
Reg. $280.00
BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN
Butterfly McQueen fills out and endorses a check for $500.00 for
cash.
Check filled out, signed and endorsed: "Butterfly McQueen" and
on verso "Butterfly/McQueen", 6x2¾. New York, New York, "1987 June
5". Drawn on her account at The Bowery Savings Bank, payable to
"cash" for '500.00/Five hundred and no/00". She has added three
notations: "#A" to her street address, for "min. funds" and
"Please cash soon/Thanks". Thelma McQueen (1911-1995)
was only 13 when she joined a theater group in Harlem. She was nicknamed
"Butterfly" after dancing in the butterfly ballet in a production of A
Midsummer Night's Dream. McQueen debuted on Broadway in Brown
Sugar (1937) and two years later played her first and most memorable movie
role, that of Prissy, the young slave, in Gone With the Wind. After
being typecast as a sobbing maid in several films of the 1940s, she grew tired
of the image and retired from films in 1947. McQueen continued intermittent
theatrical engagements and returned to the screen in the early 1970s (Amazing
Grace, 1974; The Mosquito Coast, 1986). In 1975, at the age of
64, she received a Bachelor's Degree in political science from the City
College of New York. Stamped cancellation on verso overlaps "Que" in
endorsement. Else, fine condition.
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