... be translated onto the silver screen despite scepticism from the public and his industry peers. Selznick is still recognised today as perhaps 'the greatest producer in an era of great producers', the film was his personal triumph, in a time when the producer had the principle control over the making of a motion picture ... its colourful characters. Probably the one aspect that could make or break a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's classical tale of a love-hate romance and civil war was the casting, specifically for the pivotal character of Scarlett O Hara, the beautiful, high-temp...

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