Broadway’s Billboard Signs
Part One“Good Signs on Broadway Soon Junked”November, 1946by Saul Pett Outside they were carving up 30 feet of Jane Russell and loading it into a truck. Inside, grey-haired, practical minded Jacob Starr observed, “In my business, you can’t be sentimental.…
The Search for Scarlett O’Hara
From the time it was announced, that David O. Selznick would be making Gone With The Wind into a movie, all the gossip columnists and movie magazines were aflutter with whom should play the characters Margaret Mitchell so expertly brought…
Gone With The Wind, Indeed!
Photoplay, March 1937by Kirtley Baskette Call out the riot squad! A new Civil War is raging! Who will play the principals in the world’s best seller? Time was when you could call a man a rat in Hollywood and get…
On Top of the World
Vintage Article from April 1940 (Author’s name not given) During those long months when “Gone with the Wind” was in production, the film colony never got to know Vivien Leigh. She led the life of a recluse. Then she conquered…
All the World’s Going to Love This Lover
Motion Picture Magazine, 1932 by Elisabeth Goldbeck He looks a bit like Ronald Colman, which isn‘t exactly an accident— but that’s where their resemblance ends. Laurence Olivier is younger, livelier and more impulsive- and he’s had all sorts of acting…
Will Clark Gable Ever Marry Carole Lombard?
by Ford Black Motion Picture Magazine February 1939 One thing is sure, Clark and Carole are madly in love, but your guess is as good as Hollywood’s whether they’ll marry. The odds in Hollywood, where you can get a…
Who Are They?
Jack Holland Motion Picture Magazine January, 1941 EVERYONE who attends the flickers each week is pretty sure he knows all about the stars who flash across the scene, yet some of their best known characteristics are mysteries to many.…
Incredible Selznick
INCREDIBLE SELZNICK Hollywood, January 1938 by Lupton A. Wilkinson The only logical answer to David O. Selznick’s career is, “It’s a lie!” True, he started young, as well as broke and under dramatic circumstances. Yet he had to take time…
Scarlett O’Hara and Sunny
Scarlett O’Hara and Sunny by Grace Wilcox Sunny Alexander knows Vivien Leigh better than Scarlett O’Hara knows herself. Vivien has been Scarlett so long and so intensely that she isn’t quite sure where she begins and the O’Hara girl leaves…
Vivien Leigh Can Speak For Herself
From: The Evening Independent June 10, 1940 by Alicia Hart A very definite sort of person is Vivien Leigh, the charming British actress who won fame as Scarlett O’Hara, and is now going back to England to serve her country.…