LOSING CANDIDATES
LUCKY BREAKS. ~ . I Just missing the coveted role of! Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" seems to have turned out lucky for nine of the losing candidates. Norma Shearer got top role in "The Women." one of the best roles she has ever had. Bette Davis won hist year's Academy Award in "Jezebel." after being tested for Scarlett. Tallulah Bankhead scored her first big Broadway success in "The Little Foxes,” after being turned down as Scarlett. Katharine Hepburn clicked on : Broadway in “Philadelphia Story," and is coming back to Hollywood a bigger star than ever. Paulette Goddard received her first i stellar billing in "The Cat and the I Canary." and showed that she is really ] a good little actress. Susan Hayward p got top feminine role in "Beau Geste." | Miriam Hopkins scored handily in! j "The Old Maid." and her screen career ( is off to a fresh and brilliant new start. | ; Margaret Tallichet, a former steno-i grapher. who was given many tests fori i (he big role, but finally lost out, mar-1 t ried director William Wyler, one of the! c top directors in the industry. And 11 Carole Lombard really got Rhett Butler in real life. 1 c
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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