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...seized the spotlight yesterday in the all-out campaign for Freshman Smoker Committee berths, as two local stripteuses, Sally Keith (above) and Scarlett Kelly, nothing loth to free improvement of social relations, willingly gave a helping hand to resourceful politicians of the Class...
...Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...
Born. To William Wyler, 42, short, swart director who graduated from bang-bang Westerns to a closer walk with art. (Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver), and Margaret Tallichet Wyler, 30, almost Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: their third child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: William Jr. Weight...
...Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, who returned to her native England in 1941, went to court with charges that Hollywood Producer David Selznick was attempting to prevent her appearing in a London stage play with her cinematinee-idol husband, Laurence Olivier. Selznick likened Miss Leigh to an "exotic plant" which must be wisely exposed, said that her seven-year contract with him still had a year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that...
...sheer voluptuousness, the book's heroine, honey-haired Courtesan Amber St. Clare makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a schoolmarm-a fact that could scarcely escape Hollywood's attention any more than Macmillan's. On the plausible assumption that Forever Amber might be its biggest smash hit since Gone With the Wind, the shrewd house of Macmillan spent a small fortune ($20,000) on advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling...