laura hope crews played aunt pittypat in gone with the wind.
laura hope crews played aunt pittypat in gone with the wind.
who played aunt pittypat in gone with the wind?
laura hope crews
growing up as a teenager of swiss-german extraction in los angeles a few houses from noël coward and irene dunne, he ate cookies with his neighbor laura hope crews who played aunt pittypat in "gone with the wind". he attended the peddie school. he was stationed as staff sergeant in charge of ncoic operations of air intelligence squadrons for nearly five years with the united states air force in germany (1950–1954). completing his tour of duty, he entered into the 1950s underground of the then small la leather scene where he and montgomery clift shared a lover. with his degree in industrial psychology from ucla (1957), he worked in the private sector and as a probation officer with the forestry service. he began his pioneering activism in the politics of homophile liberation in the early 1960s. in 1972, as president of the 'homophile effort for legal protection' which had been founded in 1969 to defend gays during and after arrests, he led a group in founding the h.e.l.p. newsletter, the forebear of "drummer magazine" (1975). he lived in the silver lake neighborhood of los angeles, the center of the los angeles leather scene (the equivalent of the soma neighborhood in san francisco). as a writer and photographer, he was an essential eyewitness of the drama and salon around "drummer" in which his novels were often excerpted. his signature "leather notebook" column appeared in "drummer" for twelve years beginning in 1980, and continued in "honcho" to spring 2008. his last novel, "timemasters", was published april 2008. his last writing was "who lit up the lit of the golden age of drummer" an introduction to "gay san francisco: eyewitness drummer" (june 2008).
larry townsend
bullet::::- aunt pittypat hamilton: named sarah jane hamilton, she acquired the nickname "pittypat" in childhood because of the way she walked on her tiny feet. aunt pittypat is a spinster who lives in the red-brick house at the quiet end of peachtree street in atlanta. the house is half-owned by scarlett (after the death of charles hamilton). pittypat's financial affairs are managed by her brother, henry, whom she doesn't especially care for. aunt pittypat raised melanie and charles hamilton after the death of their father, with considerable help from her slave, uncle peter.
gone with the wind (novel)