Laura Hope Crews

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Laura Hope Crews (b. San Francisco, California on December 12, 1879 - d. New York City, New York on November 12, 1942) was a character actress of movies and stage. The daughter of a stage actress and a backstage carpenter, Crews started acting at age four. She stopped acting to finish school. After finishing her studies, Crews went back into acting. Throughout her career, she is perhaps remembered as "Aunt Pittypat" from the movie, Gone with the Wind.

Along with her Gone with the Wind co-stars Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell (actor), Ann Rutherford, George Reeves and Victor Jory, each of them a have "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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