1. Mickey Kuhn started his career as a child actor, active on-screen during the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1930s until the early 1950s.
16 Facts About Mickey Kuhn
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Mickey Kuhn is noted for having played Beau Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.
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Mickey Kuhn was born on September 21,1932, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Theodore Matthew Michael Mickey Kuhn Sr.
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Mickey Kuhn had a sister, Bernadette, who was twelve years older.
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Mickey Kuhn appeared as a toddler in the 1934 film Change of Heart, after a woman spotted him with his mother in Santa Monica and informed her of a Fox Film casting call, believing Mickey Kuhn and the woman's toddler could play twins.
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Mickey Kuhn's parents enrolled him at the Mar-Ken School for performing children, where he became friends with acting brothers Darryl and Dwayne Hickman.
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Mickey Kuhn considered Juarez his "big break", having been chosen from more than 50 children for the role.
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Mickey Kuhn went on to appear as the adoptive son of John Wayne's character in Red River in 1948 and then in Broken Arrow in 1950 starring James Stewart.
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Mickey Kuhn therefore achieved the distinction of being the only actor to share screen time with Leigh in each of her Academy Award-winning performances, and following the death of Dame Olivia de Havilland on July 26,2020, he became the last surviving credited cast member in both films.
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Mickey Kuhn served in the US Navy from 1951 until 1955 and worked as an aircraft electrician there.
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Mickey Kuhn left the film business in 1956 to attend college, and worked for American Airlines from 1965 to 1995 and the Boston airport in administrative positions until his retirement.
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Mickey Kuhn regularly visited film festivals dealing with his films.
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Mickey Kuhn was later married to Shannon Farnon, Rosa Negrete, and Yolanda Borbon, all of which ended in divorce.
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Mickey Kuhn had been living in Naples, Florida, and volunteered four hours per week at a local hospital.
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Mickey Kuhn died at a hospice facility in Naples on November 20,2022, at the age of 90.
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In 2005, Mickey Kuhn received a Golden Boot Award, an award given to acknowledge significant contributions to the Western genre.