Making "Gone With The Wind" Pt. 3/5 ("Our World," ABC, 1987)

"Our World," an excellent ABC News history series that ran for one season (1986-87), chronicles the making of the 1939 movie classic "Gone With The Wind" (2/19/87).

Features interviews with stars Olivia de Havilland, Butterfly McQueen, Evelyn Keyes, Fred Crane, Mary Anderson, and production staffers Marcella Rabwin, Kay Brown, Lydia Schiller, Lyle Wheeler, Ray Klune

This segment includes rare screen tests by Lana Turner, Joan Bennett, Jean Arthur, & Paulette Goddard, all vying for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. (The male leads in the screen tests are played by Douglas Montgomery and Melvyn Douglas.)

"Gone With The Wind" (novel)
Written by Margaret Mitchell

"Gone With The Wind" (film)
Produced by David O. Selznick
Directed by Victor Fleming

"Our World" (ABC-TV series)
Episode Producer: Anthony Potter
Senior Producers: Edward Hersh, Peter Kunhardt, Ellen Rossen
Director: Consuelo Gonzalez
Hosts: Linda Ellerbee & Ray Gandolf
Written by Linda Ellerbee, Ray Gandolf, Ann Derry

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Film & Animation

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• clark
• gable
• vivien
• leigh
• leslie
• howard
• hattie
• mcdaniel
• margaret
• mitchell
• victor
• fleming

[KpopManiacSFL]

How the hell did Vivien make less than double Leslie??? He was so bad as Ashley!! Clark and Vivien were prefect! And deserve similar salaries...but it was 1939...

[OceanKingNY]

@KpopManiacSFL Yes, but don't forget that at this time, Vivien Leigh was an unknown actress making her first American movie. Clark Gable and Leslie Howard were both established movie stars who had proven their ability to make money for the studio. For that reason alone, Gable would have insisted that he be paid more than Vivien Leigh.

[xander7ful]

Vivien Leigh was brilliant as Scarlet. Jean Arthur and Paulette Goddard were very good actresses, but I can't imagine anyone else in that part. She pegged it.

[OceanKingNY]

Agreed. Paulette Goddard would have played a fine Scarlett, but Vivien Leigh truly WAS Scarlett. She doesn't even seem to be acting as she brings Scarlett to life. She truly seems to have been born to play this role.

[oxfordpictionary]

@oxfordpictionary and hattie mcdaniel only made 6,000. wow that's sad!

[oxfordpictionary]

are you kidding me?? vivien leigh made 30,000$ for her role as scarlett and leslie howard made almost twice that for portraying ashley. what a sexist world it was. scarlett was the main character and surely vivien was no less famous than leslie... i mean, well, i guess what really matters is the fact that she's more remembered now. but still. wow.

[HCShannon]

I wonder if any of those girls in the national search, ever got a chance at being in movies?

[hypnoticpoisons]

so much to emanzipation, vivien leigh she killed it and just got a gage of 30t? compared to clark gable and especially leslie howard with more than 75t??

how on earth did that happen?

[MetallicBill]

Since the CAV LaserDisc version has no real supplement, just 5 LDs! hahaha, It's nice to find the supp stuff on YT

[ismaeeeeeeel]

my favorite scarlet is the lovely girl who play the main roll in the wizzard of ozz, scarlet was beattifull, a autentic seducer, Vivian Leigh wasn't, the movie belong to Clark GABLE and the scripter.

[scprincessmk]

I thought Paulette did better than the other bad auditions but she was still missing a lot. It looked too forced. Vivien Leigh had the child-like, wide-eyed look and the ability to put on a sinister look as well that truly brought the part to life

[TheMrMarilyn]

Hmmmmm...those salaries are extremely revealing...ie: men are valued higher than women,and African Americans valued below all!!Thank God thass changing...