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ORPHEUM: GONE WITH THE WIND is back; and Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh's mighty saga of the Ole South is to be seen at popular prices. A Civil War Centennial spectacular. Evenings...
...most awesomely popular novel ever written (total sales to date: 10 million copies), G.W.T.W. was produced by David Selznick for a sum ($3,900,000) that seemed tremendous by the production standards of 1939. He employed 13 scriptwriters, eight directors, four major stars (Gable, Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh). He took six months to shoot the picture, which ran 3 hrs. 45 min., won ten Academy Awards and made $7,000,000 the first year it was released. In the 22 years since 1939, G.W.T.W. has been showing continuously somewhere in the world. It lasted four years in London...
What's more, G.W.T.W. has a grand, simpleminded, 19th century story to tell and a gallery of splendid theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...
Divorced. Sir Laurence Olivier, 53 ; and Vivien Leigh, 47 (Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth); after 20 years of marriage, no children; by decree nisi, in London, where in the same court, on the same day, Joan Plowright, 29, droll, saucer-eyed English actress (A Taste of Honey, The Entertainer), was divorced from Actor Roger Gage, 30, after seven years of marriage, no children. Both actions proceeded with classic Noel Cowardy coolness. Miss Leigh admitting adultery in Ceylon, Sir Laurence admitting adultery with Miss Plowright in London, and Gage admitting adultery in Helsinki. Court costs of the fourway, jet-speed split were...
...main thing was that he took no nonsense from women. In Gone With the Wind, when he snarled at Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," he taught the talkies how to swear. And when he slapped Norma Shearer's face in A Free Soul (1931), he slapped into obsolescence the smooth and courtly Valentino school of hand-kissing elegance. "Perhaps," said Norma Shearer last week, "that was where Noel Coward got the idea for his line: 'Every woman should be hit regularly-like a gong...