Gone with the Wind Scarlett Mammy and Belle

After failing to prostitute herself to Rhett in order to get $300 to pay taxes on Tara, Scarlett runs into Atlanta's madam, Belle Watling, whom Mammy refers to as "a dyed haired woman." Even though Scarlett knows Belle indirectly through Rhett, and directly from having been with Melanie Wilkes when accosted by Mrs. Watling in front of the Atlanta hospital during the siege, Scarlett fibs to Mammy saying she wished she DID know the local whore, saying "She'd get my money for me."

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[lLostTheGame]

Mammy ... "Who dat?" LOL!!! She's the best <3

[smichelle65]

Look at the "cold shoulder" Scarlett gives Belle at 0:15, as if she's saying "don't even *think* of speaking to me!" Great subtle acting from Leigh.

[HeidiPusskins]

Mammy's the real star in the show. Eventhough she's a servant, she treats the white folks as equals.

[robynsegg]

@lLostTheGame: I know, right! "Who dat!"  HA! She's so awesome!

[robynsegg]

I'm #12,000!

[Cheryl1166]

"I ain' never seed hair that color in my life. You know a dyed-haired woman?.." LOL

[bookkeeper57]

Scarlett is destitute: wearing a dress cut from her mother's velvet curtains so Rhett will not guess how hard up she is. When he refuses to lend her $300 to pay the taxes on Tara, she leaves him in a fit. When she runs into Frank Kennedy, running a general store in town, she makes a play for him by telling him a lie about her sister.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

You're so right. That was really good acting on Leigh's part. And the knowing smile Belle gives her (you can't see it here with the quality) is sublte on her part too!

[RdtheLiterature]

i don't think she was completely lying...she believed belle could get the money for her if they actually were friends in a different world, oh and she knew she was the same as her

[SarahJareth]

I like Scarlett, she's got a sharp wit about her and she does have a point, though rionically Belle Watling is kinder to Rhett than Scarlett ever was.