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  • FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2006 photo, Ann-Marie Johnson, National First Vice President of the Screen Actors Guild second from right, joins Gone With the Wind cast, from left: Ann Rutherford, Cammie King Conlon, Mickey Kuhn, Patrick Curtis and Fred Crane  to celebrate actress Hattie McDaniel's stamp, seen at left, at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," has died at the age of 76.   She died of lung cancer Wednesday morning at her Fort Bragg home on California's north coast, said friend Bruce Lewis.  Her son, Matthew Ned Conlon, was by her side.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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    Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," has died at the age of 76.

  • FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2006 photo, Ann-Marie Johnson, National First Vice President of the Screen Actors Guild second from right, joins Gone With the Wind cast, from left: Ann Rutherford, Cammie King Conlon, Mickey Kuhn, Patrick Curtis and Fred Crane  to celebrate actress Hattie McDaniel's stamp, seen at left, at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," has died at the age of 76.   She died of lung cancer Wednesday morning at her Fort Bragg home on California's north coast, said friend Bruce Lewis.  Her son, Matthew Ned Conlon, was by her side.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

    'Gone with the Wind' child actress dies at 76

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  • FILE - This 1939 photo provided Aug. 10, 2010, by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin shows Vivien Leigh, as Scarlett O'Hara, wearing a burgundy ball gown, and co-star Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind. Ransom Center officials announced Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, they had  met their $30,000 fundraising goal to pay for restoring five of Scarlett O'Hara's gowns for an exhibit to mark the 1939 movie's 75th anniversary in 2014. The center said contributions came from more than 600 people in 44 states and 13 countries. (AP Photo/The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin) NO SALES

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  • This undated image provided by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin shows the green curtain dress worn by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin says if it cannot raise $30,000 to restore five of Scarlett O'Hara's gowns, they may be too fragile to display at its exhibit to mark the 1939 movie's 75th anniversary in 2014. (AP Photo/The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin) NO SALES

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