His Gone with the Wind screen credit reflects the change.
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Warner changed his professional name to George Reeves. This part directly led to his being contracted to Warner Brothers.
(Reeves and Crane both dyed their hair red to portray the Tarleton twins.) After Gone with the Wind was filmed, Reeves returned to the Pasadena Playhouse and was given the lead role in the play Pancho. It was a minor role, but he and Fred Crane were in the film's opening scene. Reeves's film career began in 1939 when he was cast as Stuart Tarleton (incorrectly listed in the film's credits as Brent Tarleton), one of Scarlett O'Hara's suitors in Gone with the Wind. They had no children and divorced 10 years later. They married on September 22, 1940, in San Gabriel, California, at the Church of Our Savior. While studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, Reeves met his future wife, Ellanora Needles, granddaughter of circus magnate John Robinson. Reeves began acting and singing in high school and continued performing on stage as a student at Pasadena Junior College.
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Bessolo actually died March 4, 1944, at age 51, when his adopted son was well into his movie career. According to biographer Jim Beaver, Reeves did not know for several years that Bessolo was still alive. When he returned, his mother told him his stepfather had committed suicide. The Bessolo marriage lasted 15 years, ending in divorce, with the couple separating while Reeves was away visiting relatives. In 1927, Frank Bessolo adopted George at aged 13, as his own son, and the boy took on his stepfather's last name, becoming George Bessolo. Reeves reportedly never saw his father again. Reeves's father married Helen Schultz in 1925.
There she had met and married Frank Joseph Bessolo by 1927, according to that year's federal census. Later, Reeves's mother, who was of German descent, moved to California to stay with her sister. At this time, Reeves and his mother moved from Iowa to Ashland, Kentucky to stay with relatives for a time and then to her home of Galesburg, Illinois. Reeves was born five months into their marriage and the couple separated soon after Reeves's birth. Reeves was born January 5, 1914, as George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, the son of Donald Carl Brewer and Helen Lescher.
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