Hazel Warp, world Health Organization was Vivien Leigh's stunt double in "Gone With the Wind," has died. She was 93.
A spokeswoman at Evergreen Healthcare in Livingston confirmed Friday that Warp died Tuesday at Livingston Memorial Hospital. A cause of death wasn't released.
Warp, world Health Organization rode and trained horses, was a stand-in for Leigh in all the horseback-riding scenes in the 1939 movie. She likewise took a fall for Leigh, acrobatics down the stairs of Tara in the famous scene near the final stage of the film when Scarlett O'Hara reaches extinct to slap Rhett Butler, loses her balance and falls.
"I never will blank out it," Warp said of her Hollywood work in a 2005 interview with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. "I liked it, everything about it. I just liked my work."
Warp likewise appeared in "Wuthering Heights," "Ben-Hur" and "National Velvet," among other films.
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Information from: Bozeman Daily Chronicle, http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com
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