![]() ![]() Gable himself wasn’t keen, worrying that his macho image would be damaged by a required crying scene and the fact that Scarlett doesn’t hanker after him for the entire film. ![]() According to a studio poll the public’s overwhelming favourite for the role of dashing but dangerous Rhett (with 98% of the vote) was the resident ‘King of Hollywood’, Clark Gable. He hired Sidney Howard as screenwriter, and so began the long and arduous process of birthing Gone with the Wind.Ĭasting for Gone with the Wind proved a monumental task – and headache – although its results were sublime. Selznick purchased the film rights for $50,000. In July 1936, only one month after the novel’s publication, producer David O. Starting out as a book in 1936, written by first-time author Margaret Mitchell (who won the Pulitzer Prize for her efforts), the novel’s instantaneous acclaim pricked up Hollywood’s ears. ![]()
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