Word: rhett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Margaret Fell Lyon, leading lady of Charleston's Footlight Players, succeeded tall Monimia in the feminine lead of Silvia. Cousin Melinda was played by auburn-haired. 5 ft. 2 in. Alecia Rhett. whose ancestors attended the opening of the first Dock Street Theatre. An artist and a leader in the Footlight Players, pretty 21-year-old Alecia may contribute more than her family name to the film production of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.* She has a contract (without wages) for a part in the forthcoming Hollywood production...
...Whose hero is "Rhett Butler...
...liveliest members are David Selznick, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn in Hollywood, Alexander Korda in London. In New York last week for conferences were Producers Selznick and Korda, and Producer Selznick's chief backer, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Chief problem before Selznick International was still: who will play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime "Liz" Altemus...
...work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed a Yankee, worked like a slave keeping the family alive. After the War, Ashley came back, had to refuse Scarlett again despite his growing love and admiration for her. Scarlett dashed off to Atlanta to sell herself to rich Rhett Butler for money enough to save the plantation from the carpetbaggers. He turned her down. She married a soft-headed Southern gentleman, although he was engaged to her sister, because she wanted his money. Soon she was running a store, making more money with a sawmill run with convict labor...
...husband got mixed up with the Klan and was killed. Rhett Butler saved the other members, including the courtly Ashley, from hanging. Thereupon Scarlett married Rhett to share his fortune and to learn the secrets of his ruthlessness and success. But Rhett had made the full circle, come to despise money-grubbing even more than he had hated the exaggerated chivalry of the Old South. He put all his hopes in their daughter, was heartbroken at her death, developed a queer, tormented love and hatred for Scarlett. When Scarlett could finally get Ashley she found she did not want...