Fred Crane (actor) Fred Crane (actor) Fred Crane, Herman Frederick Crane, (March 22, 1918 – August 21, 2008) was an American film and television actor and radio announcer. He is probably best known for his role as Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film, "Gone with the Wind", speaking the opening lines in the movie during the opening scene with Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Stuart Tarleton (George Reeves). Crane was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1918. Along with his brothers John and Harry, he grew up on General Pershing St. and went to the MacDonough #13 and Alsace Fortier schools. His father
Mickey Kuhn the role of Beau Wilkes (Ashley and Melanie's son) in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). He later went on to appear in "Juarez" (1939) opposite Bette Davis, as the adoptive son of John Wayne in "Red River", and in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), in which he was reunited with Vivien Leigh a dozen years after they first worked together in "Gone with the Wind". In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Kuhn played a sailor who directs Blanche to the correct streetcar which will take her to her sister's neighborhood at the beginning of the film. He is the only actor