How did Mickey Kuhn die? Last surviving actor from 'Gone with the Wind' dies at 90
NAPLES, FLORIDA: Mickey Kuhn, the only surviving cast member of the 1939 masterpiece 'Gone with the Wind', has recently died, and the acting fraternity is in deep sorrow. Kuhn, who was only six years old when he portrayed young Beau Wilkes in 'Gone with the Wind', reportedly died at the age of 90 at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida on Sunday, November 20, 2022. He got married to Barbara Traci in 1985. She said that her husband had been in wonderful health prior to his demise.
Daily Mail reported that Kuhn was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1932, but his parents relocated him to Los Angeles when he was a little child as his father was a Safeway meat cutter there. THR reported that Kuhn appeared in six movies in 1939, including 'King of the Underworld' which starred Humphrey Bogart, and 'Juarez' which starred Bette Davis and Paul Muni. In the same year, he earned $100 a week for his role as the Mexican crown prince in Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer's 'When Tomorrow Comes'.