Fred Crane passed away Thursday at the age of 90. Unless you’re a die-hard Gone With the Wind fan, you probably don’t recognize the name.
Fred portrayed one of the Tarleton twins and one of Scarlett’s beaux - Stuart Tarleton to be exact. The other twin was played by none other than George Reeves (the twin Scarlett is throwing eyes at) who went on to stardom playing Superman in the television series.
Apparently, Fred Crane was the last living male actor with a credited role in Gone With the Wind.
Fred (the twin on the right) actually had the distinction of saying the first line in GWTW.
Stuart: “What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is going to start any day now, so we’d have left college anyhow.”
Scarlett: “Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream.”
