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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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So after two years, four months of nationwide search and tension, dashing Georgia Belle Scarlett O'Hara was a wispish little English girl with a neatly clipped British accent. Born in Darjeeling, India, in the Himalaya Mountains, Nov. 5, 1913, she spent the first five years of her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

"Their love," says a friend, "is the most beautiful thing I have ever known." Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier spend most of their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Though professional Anglophobes squawked at the choice of an English girl to play Scarlett O'Hara and a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Ocala, Fla. protested, most Southerners were relieved. Their real fear was that a damyankee girl might be given the part.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The choice of Vivien Leigh was not altogether a surprise to Vivien Leigh. British Director Victor Saville, now in Hollywood, read one of the first copies of Gone With the Wind to reach England. As soon as he had finished it, he rushed to the telephone and mischievously called Vivien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The Women. On Jan. 26, 1939, Cukor began directing with a very incomplete script. Trouble started at once. Selznick was not satisfied with the results which Cukor, a specialist in intimate scenes, especially with women, was getting. Selznick felt that Cukor did not get the "big feel" of Gone With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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