Heroine For "Gone With The Wind"

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 34, 3 February 1939, Page 5

Heroine For "Gone With The Wind"

FIOLLYWOOD'S protracted bout of Scarlett C’Hara Fever is again reported to have come to an end, this time with. the signing of | Vivien Leigh to play the heroine in "Gone With the Wind." Current rumour is well substantiated. Miss Leigh is an English girl-a Korda "dis-covery"-who has appeared in "Fire Over England," "Storm in a Teacup," "Dark Journey" and (yet to come), "Si, Martin’s Lane." Producer David Selznick forestails criticism of his choice of an English girl for the Scariett O’Hara role by pointing out that the Southern aristocracy of Civil War days was proud of its British ancestry. in bustle and straw bonnet, Miss Leigh is the exact counterpart of the imaginary Scarlett, says Selznick. Deadline for starting "Gone With the Wind" is now February; but most people have got so they won’t believe the picture till they actually see it,