Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
I'm currently reading Gone With The Wind for the second time. The first time being when I was a sophomore in high school. Just let me tell you, it is soooo much better this time around. I think it might have to do with having some life experience and being able to relate more to the situations Scarlett finds herself in and I visited Savannah and Charleston a year or so ago and I can picture the scene. I'm reading it on the Kindle which means no thick, heavy, book to try to hold and I'm loving that too.
I've always thought Vivien Leigh was the perfect Scarlett and I could not consider anyone but Clark Gable as Rhett.
Here are a few interesting facts about Vivien Leigh:
1. She was British and born in Darjeeling, India in 1913 and died in 1967 at the age of 53.
2. Her name was Vivian Holman and she changed it to Vivien Leigh to please her agent, who wanted her to change her name to April Morn.
3. Vivien Leigh and Lawrence Olivier met and fell in love while filming Fire Over England in 1937. They were both married and continued their affair until their respective spouses granted them a divorce. They were married in 1940. Katharine Hepburn was one of two witnesses.
3. Vivien Leigh was 25 when she filmed Gone With The Wind and the woman who played her mother was 28.
5. Vivien Leigh won 2 Oscars - both for paying the part of Southern Belles: for Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBoise in a Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche DuBoise was her favorite role. (I guess I gave you two for one there!)
6. Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960.
7. Leigh suffered from Bi-polar disorder for years.
8. Vivien Leigh was regarded as one of the most beautiful actresses of her time and most believed she was not taken seriously as an actress because of her beauty.
9. Tuberculosis, from which Leigh had also suffered for years, was the ultimate cause of her death.
10. She starred in a movie called Waterloo Bridge, it is the saddest movie I have ever seen, don't see it.
