Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gained in singling out the salient details of the film; every feature is outstanding. The scenes are only rivalled by the acting. We have never despised a woman more than Scarlett, nor loved one more than Melanie. We thought perhaps breeding would tell, but for all his Twelve Oaks Ashley is a coward, and despite the Old South, Rhett is not. Each character is faithful to Miss Mitchell's book, and it is these characters which made the book. Although in any large production one expects the main people to be well-done, it is seldom that every person...
...Douglas Fairbanks Sr., No. 3 (former British chorus girl who was Lady Sylvia Ashley before he married her)-an amount "not to exceed...
...claim to be great literature, it is because of the wide variety of characters portrayed so skillfully and so vividly. Pre-and post-Civil War South has been discussed before, and will be many times again; but never has there been a Scarlett and a Rhett, an Ashley and a Melanic, an Ellen, a Gerald, a Mammie, a Belle Watling, and such a profusion of individual minor characters, all so real and so credible. Some are types, perhaps, and yet they all have the spark of life. In the movie they are reproduced with amazing fidelity; all the subtletics...