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...Hollywood, Producer David Oliver Selznick finally chose an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in his forthcoming $2,000,000 production of Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
...will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara-comes off second-best but, as a more sophisticated inmate of the Ecole Nationale des Arts Dramatiques she wears her clothes well and conveys an air of sullen, anti-social charm...
...second, Modern Times, she did not talk. Since Modern Times she has maintained an apparently impregnable position in U. S. headlines, first as the centre of the controversy about whether or not she was married to Charlie Chaplin, then as the centre of the controversy about who would play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Last week the persistent rumor that Paulette Goddard would be Scarlett was again revived, by Roy Howard's World-Telegram and again denied. Cinemaddicts concluded that, since Gone With the Wind has become practically a phantom picture, Paulette as Scarlett would...
Married. William Wyler, 34, cinema director (These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel), divorced husband of Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan; and Margaret Tallichet, 23-year-old onetime typist who was "discovered" by Carole Lombard, chosen to play Careen O'Hara (Scarlett's sister); at Lake Arrowhead, Calif...
Last week, in Hollywood, Producer Selznick finally revealed his plans for Gone With the Wind: production starting this winter; release through M-G-M about Sept. 1, 1939; cost about $1,500,000; Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara to be played by Clark Gable and Norma Shearer...