Rassegna stampa di Fred Crane

Fred Crane, whose Southern accent won him a part as one of Scarlett O’Hara’s twin beaus and the opening line in “Gone With the Wind,” died on Thursday. He was 90.
The cause was complications from diabetes, said his wife, Terry Lynn Crane.
The couple had lived in Barnesville, south of Atlanta, where until last year they operated Tarleton Oaks, a bed and breakfast named for Mr. Crane’s character in the film, Brent Tarleton. The other Tarleton twin was played by George Reeves, who later played Superman on television; he died in 1959.

Born in New Orleans, Mr. Crane was 20 and not yet an actor when he accompanied a cousin who wanted to audition for the movie. The casting director liked his Southern twang, and he wound up being cast.
The film opens with Mr. Crane’s character saying to Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara: “What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is going to start any day now, so we would have left college anyhow.” Her reply to Mr. Crane and Mr. Reeves contains one of the movie’s classic lines: “Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream.”
Mr. Crane also had roles in the 1949 Cisco Kid movie “The Gay Amigo,” and acted on television in the 1960s. He was host of a classical music radio show in Los Angeles for 40 years. Mr. Crane was married five times. He is survived by four children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
26 agosto 2008