Fort Bragg’s Cammie Conlon Publishes Gone With The Wind Memoir – Cheshire Books To Hold Book Signing
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Cammie Conlon with her new book
Cammie King Conlon is a well known Fort Bragg, California resident and a wonderfully positive human being with a ready smile and a good sense of humor. To people in the South — as in the Deep South — Cammie is a heroine of massive big screen proportions. When she was just 5, she starred as Bonnie Blue Butler, daughter of Rhett Butler, in the 1939 classic movie, Gone With The Wind. She is among those enshrined in four museums dedicated to the movie and has many times been celebrated in parades in Marietta, Georgia, a hot bed of movie fans, and other towns around the country. All that and more is in her new book just published. She will be autographing “Bonnie Blue Butler – A Gone With The Wind Memoir” at 4:30 pm June 5 (First Friday) at Cheshire Books on Franklin Street.
Each year Cammie attends memorabilia shows where a long line forms to get her photo and autograph.
A few years back, Hallmark created a GWTW Christmas ornament with a picture of her with her movie dad, Clark Gable, walking on their plantation. Although most of the cast is long deceased (only a handful remain), the movie’s fans never seem to tire of the film, it’s stars and all the lore surrounding it.
Cammie is self-effacing about all this movie star fuss. She jokes, “I peaked in show business at age 5.” It was her first and only movie — a role she won when her older sister, Diane, got sick just before filming ( Cammie has doubts about her mother’s explanation of how she was chosen).
I had breakfast with Cammie recently at the Little River Inn in Little River, California, where she is a public relations specialist and got a signed copy of the 74-page memoir, which has great cast and family photos. Among describes behind-the-scenes goings on and huge bash billiionaire Ted Turner (CNN and Turner Movie Company and owner of Gone With The Wind) staged on the movie’s 50th anniversary in 1989. You learn about Windies (the name of movie fans) and life growing up in the thirties and forties in Los Angeles. A good, easy read.
The book was published by Cypress House and is available at the special price of $19.39 (normally $24.95), by requesting an order form from scarlettsbaby@gmail.com. Cammie also has a new blog, but sadly no comments yet to her first post. I’ll race you to be the first.
Tags: Bonnie Blue Butler, Cammie King Conlon, Gone With The Wind
July 11th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Hello, My name is Ken Beck and I compile a celebrity question and answer column for American Profile magazine. I am featuring some info on Cammie King Conlon and her new book soon and was hoping you could share the photo on your web site of Cammie holding up her book.
I appreciate your consideration.
Ken