Gable was the only actor named in the article who wound up playing the named character. George Cukor worked on the movie but Victor Fleming got the screen credit for directing.
I’s a good thing Vivienne Leigh showed up before they started shooting.
BTW, how come they canned Norma Shearer?
Pray hollywood never sees profit in re-making this classic. They would maul it, as with everything else they re-touch.
For a brief moment I thought Hollywood was actually stupid enough to remake GWTW.
You mean it’s not gonna be Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?
Actresses tested for the role of Scarlett:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/gwtw/scarlett/girltest.html
1.5 million to make the movie. I did a little spit balling and thats around 25 million in today’s dollars. I guess that’s relatively cheap compared to what some movies cost these days.