Word: scarlett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From producer David O. Selznick's overall conception to the small details of costume and set decoration, Gone With the Wind has an innate grace, an elegance and dignity that has disappeared from movie-making. Even the rapid succession of disasters in the final 20 minutes--Scarlett's miscarriage, her daughter's fatal accident, Rhett's madness and Melanie's death--gains complete plausibility from the nuances of performnace and the stylistic subtlety of direction...
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett is not quite what Margaret Mitchell had in mind. The book opens with the line, "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful." This Scarlett is. So beautiful that every time she has a close-up we are in danger of forgetting what the movie is about. Rarely has an actress invested her beauty with so much variety and expressiveness. Miss Leigh's performance starts in her face and works outward, refusing to compromise Scarlett's bitch-coldness with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath...
Once again, filmgoers have the chance to rereview two such fabled Hollywood performances: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Since its gala 1939 premiere in Atlanta, G.W.T.W. has been seen by more than 295 million people and earned $75 million in rentals for MGM. This month MGM re-released it for the fifth time, and already has advance bookings (at an average of $3 per reserved-seat ticket) totaling...
Died. Vivien Leigh, 53, brilliantly versatile actress; after a long siege of tuberculosis; in London. A fragile (5 ft. 3 in., 100 Ibs.) British beauty, she spun to international fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent...
Despair of Others. Rich's forte, and the despair of other merchants, is the lavish credit and exchange policy that has made it as much an Atlanta institution as Scarlett O'Hara. "The customer is never wrong," is a Rich's policy, and on that friendly basis the store goes to the improbable length of accepting any merchandise returns-even if they were bought at another store. Once, for example, Rich's exchanged hundreds of pairs of defective nylons of a brand it did not stock. A clerk at a rival store, according to a popular...