Talk:Patrick Curtis (producer)

Patrick curtis birthday
Is there confirmation of patrick curtis' birthdate? For years this site and other internet sources listed is birth year as 1938, without a date. It's only been recently that this site was updated to June 15, 1939, 12 days prior to the closing of principal photography on GWTW. Does anyone have a source on the birthdate of Patrick Curtis? Sashagirl96 (talk) 20:29, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Affiliation to GWTW is unconfirmed
Patrick spent years going to GWTW events passing himself off as "the baby." However, Greg Giese produced as a contract and canceled check for his appearance in GWTW as baby Beau and Baby Bonnie. Subsequently, Curtis started signing photos of a baby being held by Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) on the steps at Tara, when Gerald (Thomas Mitchell) comes home to announce the end of the war. That child is much older than a newborn. The post production photography for that scene is documented in October of 1939, and the child is older than 3-4 months. Additionally the higher definition imagery of the film makes it appear the child in the scene described above is the same as the child (Ric Holt) seen than 2 minutes later with Melanie on the back steps of Tara. To me nothing about Patrick Curtis' self proclaimed affiliation to GWTW adds up. We know Greg Giese was the infant. We know Ric Holt was a young toddler. We know Mickey Kuhn was the young boy at the end of the film. There's only extremely limited public mention of Patrick Curtis' death and no obituary with a public birth and death date. For years neither this site nor any other site listed anything but a birth year of 1938 and only recently was his birthdate updated to June of 1939, without a source. There's no doubt Mickey Kuhn and Patrick Curtis were very good friends. But was Patrick Curtis a "co-star" in GWTW? Other than Patrick showing up to events and charging for autographs on photos of children that aren't him, there's no evidence of a real connection to the film. RIP Patrick Sashagirl96 (talk) 20:47, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Even as recently as 2010, Patrick was being reported in the media as a year older than his birthdate listed on this site would have him at that time. On August 6, 2010 the press Enterprise reported on a cast appearance in conjunction with a screening at Fox Riverside and gave Curtis' age as 72 when he would have been 71, if his birthdate is June 15, 1939, and in describing the relationship between Greg Giese (documented infant Beau) and Curtis, the paper said, "They applaud when their characters appear onscreen, even if they’re not sure which man played which infant." https://www.pressenterprise.com/2010/08/06/gone-with-the-wind-cast-relives-memories/#:~:text=Patrick%20Curtis%2C%2072%2C%20who%20played%20baby%20Beau%20Wilkes.&text=Butler.,Wilkes%20as%20an%20older%20boy.&text=man%20played%20which%20infant. Sashagirl96 (talk) 21:23, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

A 2017 Saturday evening post that was reproduced from a 1967 article, lists Curtis as 32 years old, placing his birth year in 1934 or 1935. That would have made him 4-5 years old during principal photography of GWTW. Why was Curtis 32 in 1967 and 72 in 2010. None of those ages match to a birthdate of June, 1939. Is this why there's no obituary?

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/08/screen-sirens-hollywood-raquel-welch/ Sashagirl96 (talk) 22:12, 3 March 2023 (UTC)