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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 274781" data-attributes="member: 7">We can agree to disagree on Vivien&#039;s performance as Scarlett. I can understand that everyone may not be a fan of it; I&#039;m a big boy and I can swallow it. I don&#039;t think she&#039;s rolling over in her grave because of some online forum criticism for a performance that&#039;s over eighty years old (stealing some of Crimson&#039;s lingo). 

Bette Davis was a big contender for Scarlett for a long time; the public voted her as their top choice for the part sometime around 1936. Davis herself desperately pleaded for the part, but Selznick never seriously considered her. He felt the same about Davis as he did Katharine Hepburn: they didn&#039;t have enough sex appeal for the part in his mind. Davis wrote in her 1982 memoir that it was &quot;insane&quot; that she not be cast as Scarlett. She held a resentment for Vivien Leigh for the rest of her life; so much was her resentment that she flat-out refused Leigh&#039;s casting as Cousin Miriam in HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE after Joan Crawford walked. Davis apparently told producers Leigh &quot;wasn&#039;t right to play a Southern belle.&quot; 

Selznick was also apparently irked that Warner Brothers did JEZEBEL in 1938, which he saw as their attempt to &quot;cash in&quot; on the GONE WITH THE WIND momentum he had generated. Apparently all the major studios had declined the story to JEZEBEL for a few years, but WB eventually snatched up it as something of a consolation for Davis not getting cast as Scarlett. Davis won her second and last Oscar for JEZEBEL in 1939, the year before Vivien&#039;s. 

I&#039;ll also agree with you on how much I like Olivia de Havilland as Melanie. De Havilland&#039;s sister Joan Fontaine was apparently an early contender for Melanie, but she rebuffed, wanting instead to play Scarlett (as was every other actress in Hollywood). Fontaine allegedly suggested De Havilland for the job, who accepted the role with great enthusiasm. De Havilland had to plead with Jack Warner to loan her out to Selznick, but she ultimately got her way. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 274781, member: 7"] [JUSTIFY]We can agree to disagree on Vivien's performance as Scarlett. I can understand that everyone may not be a fan of it; I'm a big boy and I can swallow it. I don't think she's rolling over in her grave because of some online forum criticism for a performance that's over eighty years old (stealing some of Crimson's lingo). Bette Davis was a big contender for Scarlett for a long time; the public voted her as their top choice for the part sometime around 1936. Davis herself desperately pleaded for the part, but Selznick never seriously considered her. He felt the same about Davis as he did Katharine Hepburn: they didn't have enough sex appeal for the part in his mind. Davis wrote in her 1982 memoir that it was "insane" that she not be cast as Scarlett. She held a resentment for Vivien Leigh for the rest of her life; so much was her resentment that she flat-out refused Leigh's casting as Cousin Miriam in HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE after Joan Crawford walked. Davis apparently told producers Leigh "wasn't right to play a Southern belle." Selznick was also apparently irked that Warner Brothers did JEZEBEL in 1938, which he saw as their attempt to "cash in" on the GONE WITH THE WIND momentum he had generated. Apparently all the major studios had declined the story to JEZEBEL for a few years, but WB eventually snatched up it as something of a consolation for Davis not getting cast as Scarlett. Davis won her second and last Oscar for JEZEBEL in 1939, the year before Vivien's. I'll also agree with you on how much I like Olivia de Havilland as Melanie. De Havilland's sister Joan Fontaine was apparently an early contender for Melanie, but she rebuffed, wanting instead to play Scarlett (as was every other actress in Hollywood). Fontaine allegedly suggested De Havilland for the job, who accepted the role with great enthusiasm. De Havilland had to plead with Jack Warner to loan her out to Selznick, but she ultimately got her way. [/JUSTIFY] [/QUOTE]

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