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Eleanore Cammack "Cammie" King (August 5, 1934 – September 1, 2010) was an American former child actress. She is best known for being one of the actresses who portrayed "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. 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 during the filming of Gone "With the Wind". Her mother, Eleanore, was a columnist for the Los Angeles Examiner and in the late 1940s married Herbert Kalmus, a scientist who founded the Technicolor Corp.〔September 03, 2010|By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times 〕 She was the godchild of Herbert Kalmus, co-founder of Technicolor, and became his stepchild in 1949 when he married her mother, Eleanore King. Conlon 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. Her first husband, with whom she had two children, died of cancer. She later remarried but divorced in 1976. In 1980, Conlon moved to Northern California and had a long public-relations career that included working for the Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce.〔September 03, 2010|By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times〕 Cammie King was married twice and had two adopted children. Her father-in-law from her second marriage, Judd Conlon, was a musical arranger for many Disney films including ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1951) and ''Peter Pan'' (1953). In the early 2000s, King made a guest appearance as a contestant on the TV game show ''To Tell the Truth'', hosted by John O'Hurley. Upon reflecting on her film career, King once joked, "I peaked at 5." She spent 40 years working as a marketing coordinator for the Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce.〔 King privately published a small book ''Bonnie Blue Butler: A Gone With the Wind Memoir'' in 2009, mainly selling copies directly to fans via personal appearances and the internet. King died on September 1, 2010, at her home in Fort Bragg, California, at age 76, from lung cancer. Survived by her two children Matthew Ned Conlon of Chicago and Katie Conlon Byrne of Hawaii〔September 03, 2010|By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cammie King」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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