Biography for
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Date of Birth

16 June 1903, Portland, Oregon, USA

Date of Death

11 February 1955, New York City, New York, USA (suicide by overdose)

Birth Name

Owena Wolcott

Height

5' 2" (1.57 m)

Mini Biography

Dramatic leading and supporting actress in 1930s and 40s Hollywood, her background had encompassed both vaudeville and the Broadway musical stage.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Bill Takacs

Mini Biography

A slim, pale blonde, Munson achieved film immortality as the tainted Belle Watling in "Gone With The Wind". Her other film roles were sporadic supporting roles in dramas and westerns.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Ray Hamel

Spouse

Eugene Berman	(1949 - 1955)
Stewart McDonald	(1941 - 1947)
Edward Buzzell	(1927 - ?)

Trivia

She introduced the song "You're the Cream in My Coffee" in the Broadway play "Hold Everything", c. 1927.

Memorable as Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Ona Munson's name is often confused with that of the actress Osa Massen.

Portrayed Lorelei Kilbourne, society editor for The Illustrated Press, on CBS Radio's "Big Town" (1940-1942). She replaced Claire Trevor in the role.

Married her third husband, artist and designer Eugene Berman, at the Beverly Hills home of Igor Stravinsky.

She was plagued by ill-health for the final years of her life, and committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills aged 51.

Personal Quotes

Note found next to bed at death, "This is the only way I know to be free again ... Please don't follow me."

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