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fradine:

30 days of female awesome

Day 9: Favorite female character in a drama - Scarlett O’Hara

“Oh, Ashley, when will you stop seeing both sides of questions? No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.”

I always wanted to grow up to be Scarlett O’Hara…unfortunately, I never quite got there…

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Scarlett: ‘I hate and despise you, Rhett Butler. I’ll hate and despise you till I die.’
Rhett: ‘Oh no you won’t, Scarlett. Not that long.’

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No great shakes as literature, the novel had been dropped on the floor by most literary critics as soon as it dropped in their laps. They thought its love story a bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy. The destruction of the South’s civilization in the War between the States, told as the case history of two plantation families, the red-blooded O’Haras and the blue-blooded Wilkeses, had been better told before. The overlapping loves of Scarlett O’Hara for Ashley Wilkes, Rhett Butler for Scarlett O’Hara, could be read in any confession magazine.

But Gone With the Wind was a U. S. Legend. In fact, it was two of them. Legend No. 1 was the only great U. S. war epic the War between the States told from the Southern side. Legend No. 2 was the heroic and unhappy love story of two people who were strong, brutal, brash, realistic, American enough to survive Legend No. 1. Like all good legends, these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett’s “I won’t think of it now, I’ll think of it tomorrow” was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want it.

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“I wanted to play Scarlett O’hara from the first time I read the book. That was in London when I was appearing in a flop play. I fell in love with the novel and gave the rest of the cast copies of the book as opening night presents. I told them, ‘If I ever go to Hollywood, it will be to play Gone with the Wind.’ They all laughed and said I was crazy.”

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strangeenemy:

Reading “Gone With The Wind”

Look at Clark Gable’s face - he looks so confused.

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I have a Christmas ornament that plays this scene - it’s one of my prized possessions.

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Damn, that woman had some great clothes.  And she could definitely move in a hoop skirt - not an easy task.

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I am so desperately in love with Rhett Butler.  Like…there are no words…

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