With the first scenes with his cast scheduled for January 1939 he was frustrated, contemplating what he saw as “the From his first reading of the novel, he had his Scarlett vivid in his mind and In images, knowing how potent the initial perception of a character is, especially one originally from a famous book, whichĬould dictate an audience’s reaction. Many who cut xvtheir teeth in silents, thought Top scriptwriters (the dramatist Sidney Howard for Gone With the Wind), Selznick, like Although he was a voracious reader and hired Of free advance publicity but it had always for Selznick been more than a stunt.

The nationwide search for an unknown – over 1,500 seen, many screen-tested – had of course provided an avalanche Of whom Paulette Goddard led the field, but from the outset Selznick had wanted to have “a new girl” as Scarlett – Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Katharine Hepburn included – and still had in reserve three well-known possibles, He had considered and rejected most of the established star actresses suggested Scarlett could ruin all his ambitions and plans.

Howard as the heroine’s more conventional love interest, Ashley Wilkes, but he was uncomfortably aware that a miscast Mitchell’s raffish heart-throb Rhett Butler alongside Olivia de Havilland as Scarlett’s cousin Melanie, and Leslie He had secured the public’s choice of Clark Gable as There are certain stories where miscasting of the girl will mean not simply that the role is badly played but that the whole

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