Cammie King

Eleanore Cammack "Cammie" King (August 5, 1934 – September 1, 2010) was an American child actress. She is best known for her portrayal of "Bonnie Blue Butler" in Gone with the Wind (1939). She also provided the voice for the doe "Faline" as a fawn in the animated Disney film, Bambi (1942).

Life and career

King was born in Los Angeles, California to Winfred Cammack King (1898-1966) and Eleanore "Helen" Brodie (1905-1990). While her acting career only spanned four years during her childhood, she appeared in two of the biggest movies of the era, Gone with the Wind and Bambi.

Her parents divorced a few years after the filming of "Gone With the Wind". Her mother, Eleanore, was a columnist for the Los Angeles Examiner. She was the godchild of Herbert Kalmus, co-founder of Technicolor, and became his stepchild in 1949 when he married her mother.

King graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree in communications in 1956 and went to work as a production assistant on "Climax!" a CBS-TV anthology series.