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Dec 13, 2013 · David O. Selznick, the film producer of Gone With The Wind (1939), mounted a nationwide search for a woman to play the role of Scarlett O’Hara. Scores of women read for the part, but only the women listed here, some talented amateurs and some experienced actors, actually sat for filmed screen tests.
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Mar 4, 2014 · Gone with the Wind & Vivien Leigh home video footage discovered!
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In this fascinating clip from the 1989 film Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind, we see some of the 32 screen tests that were made for Scarlett, along with a few for other roles.
In the meantime, we are pleased to present a few of the rare screen tests that Selznick made in preparation for The Young in Heart (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), as well as a test of the legendary Adele Astaire—these reels Selznick prized and retained for posterity.
Screen tests convinced Selznick and the director George Cukor that Paulette would need coaching to be effective in the role, but that she was promising and she was the first actress who made a...
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Sep 14, 2014 · On casting the role of Scarlett from more than 1,400 screen tests and thousands of letters, and the reaction to Leigh getting the part
After acting lessons in New York City and a couple of summer stock productions, she returned to Hollywood in time to test for Gone with the Wind. Tallichet’s tests for Gone with the Wind are early ones, dating from March 1938 during the great nationwide “search for Scarlett O’Hara.”
