Dorothy McGuire

McGuire has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd. She was typecast in similar roles, and in 1955, plagued by ill health, she committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates in her apartment in New York. She appeared in such other movies as Three Coins in the Fountain, Friendly Persuasion, Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, Summer Magic and The Greatest Story Ever Told. Ona Munson’s career was stalemated by the acclaim of GWTW. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1947 for Gentleman's Agreement. Tallulah Bankhead refused the role as too small. By 1943, at the age of 27, she was already playing mother roles, in such movies as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Early on, Selznick had announced Mae West was to play Belle, but this was of course a publicity stunt.

Her first film was Claudia, in which she played the character she had originated on Broadway, that of a child bride who almost destroys her marriage through her selfishness. The needed look for Belle could be created in the wardrobe and makeup departments. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she began her career on the stage. She spoke deep and throaty in her test, and her voice conveyed sexiness and worldliness. Dorothy Hackett McGuire (June 14, 1916 - September 13, 2001) was an American actress. But her skills as an actress electrified her screen test: it was all in the voice. She was the antithesis of the voluptuous Belle: tall, freckled, and of slight build.

She introduced the song "You're the Cream In My Coffee," to New York audiences. 1955) Ona Munson was an improbable choice to play the whiskey-voiced prostitute with a heart of gold, Belle Watling, in "Gone With the Wind." Born Ona Wolcott in Portland, Oregon in 1903, she first came to fame on Broadway as the singing and dancing ingenue in the original production of "No, No, Nanette." She had a very successful stage and radio career in the 1930’s in New York. 1903, d. ONA MUNSON (American actress, b.