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The Scarlett Dark Horse

on BBC Radio 4 FM

' Saturday night I was greatly exhilarated by the frightening but exciting knowledge that Gone with the Wind was finally in work. My brother rolled in just exactly too late: with him were
Larry Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Ssh! She's the Scarlett dark horse and looks damned good.... '
(PAVID O. SELZNICK)
Every girl in America wanted to play her, 1,500 made it to the production office but it was a young Englishwoman who landed the part of Scarlett O'Hara in the legendary film. Geoffrey M. Matthews tells the story of the search for Scarlett and of the making of one of the landmarks of the cinema. Reporter
Barbra Paskin / Producer
SIMON F.LMES

Contributors

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Larry Olivier
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Vivien Leigh.
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Scarlett O'Hara
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Geoffrey M. Matthews
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Barbra Paskin
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Simon F.Lmes

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