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Ann Rutherford Dies
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Gone With the Wind actress Ann Rutherford has died.
The Canadian star died at her home in Beverly Hills, California, last night aged 94. Ann's close friend and fellow actress, Anne Jeffreys, said she had been in declining health with heart problems.
Ann was best known for playing Scarlett's younger sister, Carreen, in 1939 film Gone With the Wind, and was one of its last surviving cast members. Ann was initially refused the chance to be in Gone With the Wind by MGM boss Louis B Mayer, who called her role a "nothing part," but after she burst into tears and told him what a huge fan of the novel she was, he reconsidered.
"I just wanted to watch the book come to life," she told the Los Angeles Times in 2010.
Speaking at the 70th anniversary of the film in 2009, she said, "That 'nothing part' turned my golden years into platinum."
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