Picture perfect: Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara, is seen here testing out tear stains
Newly published black and white photographs offer film lovers a behind-the-scenes look at 'Gone with the Wind.'
The
photographs are included in 'The Making of Gone with the Wind' by Steve
Wilson, to celebrate the film's seventy-fifth anniversary. The book
will be published in September.
The
1939 film's stars, including Vivien Leigh as heroine Scarlett O'Hara,
Clark Gable as love interest Rhett Butler, Leslie Howard as Ashley
Wilkes, Olivia de Havilland as her friend Melanie Hamilton, and Hattie
McDaniel as servant Mammy, are seen on set and in-between shooting.
Extras
are also photographed in Civil War costumes in between takes on the
film's large sets.The film's director, Victor Fleming, is also captured
speaking to actors before famous scenes in the film.
Photographs
included in the book also show the burning of Atlanta, which reportedly
took only took a little over an hour to film.
Also
included are industry memos regarding casting African-American actors
in the film and the rumor mill over which Hollywood stars would be cast
as Scarlett and her leading man Rhett Butler - a role which ultimately
went to Gable.
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