As a result, Hollywood’s biggest news broke out in 1937: MGM invested three million US dollars to shoot the novel "Gone with the Wind" by the female writer Margaret Michel. As soon as the news was released, the news media and movie fans immediately rushed to chase the film’s front and back scenes like a mad dog. At that time, the United States was gradually getting rid of the shadow of the Great Depression of 1929, and going to the theater to relieve the pressure of the day was once again the best choice for working people. Various movie magazines and gossip publications have also sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain...Hollywood has gradually entered the legendary golden age. Before such an unprecedented mass base, a successful film will inevitably make a lot of money, and it is also very likely to achieve a double harvest of material and spiritual civilization (academy awards and box office). However, since the birth of Hollywood, there has not been a major production that has achieved such success. Since the disastrous box office of Griffith's "Party Together" in the 1920s, no investor has dared to easily put the big production on the screen. The audience would rather choose love sketches such as "One Night Romance" and "Guanshan Fit" type of tough guy actions. It was enjoyable, and it was difficult to endure the torture similar to the Chinese "Promise" in the 21st century. The higher the risk, the greater the reward, was still not feasible in Hollywood at that time. Therefore, in the face of MGM's brave move to kill the island, most film critics and audiences watched it with the mentality of watching the excitement. While bringing this well-known masterpiece to the screen, producer Selzenek knew that building a strong team is an important prerequisite for a successful film, so he made up his mind to organize a "dream" in his mind. Team" to create this film. Immediately, a luxurious lineup with the great director George Gu Ke, the famous screenwriter Sidney Howard, and rookie producer Selzenek as the team was successfully formed. After that, the three of them performed their duties and soon entered the role and began to move forward. This is the first step to complete this handed down work.
The first thing Selzenek and Gu Ke had to do was to select actors. When the news of Gone with the Wind was about to be filmed, Hollywood celebrities and green women were keenly aware that this is an excellent fame and fortune pair. At the end of the opportunity, a large number of personal resume lunches inviting job application letters to the leaders flew to the desks of the two production cores like snow flakes. Especially the battle between heroes and heroines is unprecedentedly fierce. Relatively speaking, movie fans and the media are more optimistic about using MGM’s leading actor, Clark Gable, known as the emperor of the movie, as the actor Ritter Butler (Brad), including Selzenek. I have the same idea in my heart. But when he thought of his own low-pitched pleading for Meyer's generous donation, the father-in-law took advantage of the danger to make a profit, and Selzenek's anger stopped. In order to get rid of MGM’s further control of the film, he contacted Erol Flynn of Warner Bros., Jarley Cooper of Paramount, and Spencer Qusay of Colombia (from MGM temporarily On loan)... After many discussions with George Gu Ke, Gable and Flynn became popular candidates for Captain Butler. However, considering that Flynn was too handsome and lacked the temperament of a prodigal son, the protagonist went around after a long circle. Back to Clark Gable's hands. Selzenek also had to pinch his nose and once again talked with the miser's father-in-law, and finally signed the Hollywood's number one actor for a sky-high price of one hundred thousand US dollars (excluding weekly salary and dividends). Interestingly, Gable himself is not optimistic about the film that made him popular to this day or even forever. He once complained to his friends that the character of Butler is a clown, and worried that this female-oriented film would cover up his man. spirit. You must know that Gable was the best spokesperson for the image of American men at the time. The topless shot in "A Night in the Air" actually caused the nationwide sweat vest to be out of stock (the American pipes collectively think this is a symbol of masculinity). It seems a bit unbelievable today...
When the protagonist dust settles, the heroine competition has become fierce. Hollywood only needs all female actors between the ages of 20 and 40 (regardless of fat, thin, tall, short, famous, or unknown. ) Can't wait to fly into the arms of the producer (because director Gu Ke is gay) to show off his feminine style. Selzenek can receive calls from no less than ten people asking to have lunch with him every day, and the rest such as red envelopes and small resume registered letters... are so many that they can bury him alive 20 times! How has Selzenek been so beautiful? While he is proud, he also feels his own pressure even more. The role of Scarlett O'Hara (Scarlett Scarlett) bears almost all the dreams of American women and is the least allowed to appear in this film. The key to the mistake. After being screened by more than 6,000 people, the crew auditioned nearly two hundred people one by one. Selzenek's horrible discovery, the trace of Scarlett in his mind is still misty and there is no clue. According to relevant literature, the evaluation of Hollywood Qunfang after the audition is as follows:
Catherine Hepburn-lacks the charm that makes a man pursue ten years in a row!
Greta Garbo-The expression is so cool, there is no cat-like change!
Petty Davis-looks too vicious!
Litai Hayworth-this is not a cowboy movie, there is no horse for you to ride!
Lana Turna-too charming, not to support a family's temperament!
Susan Haywood-no style like a classical lady!
Olivia De Havilland-you still play your Melanie Hamilton (Han Meilan)!
The rest, such as Naomahira, Carol Lombard, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Stanvik, and others, even have no chance of being shortlisted... In the end, the role of Scarlett began to slowly move closer to the two people. One is MGM’s popular star Dan Joan Crawford, and at the same time Gable’s confidante and patron; the other is comedy king Chaplin’s new fiancé Pauline Gaudai, a healthy native of the United States Chick. Gable himself is naturally his old lover, but in Selzenek's view, Crawford's figure is too tall and not enough for Scarlett's petiteness in the original book, so the heroine's candidate gradually began to be farewell. Madam Lin's head tilted...Although Miss Gao Dai was not the Scarlett in his heart. But at this time, the producer has been tortured by the script of repeated dystocia, and has no more energy to pay attention to the candidate of the heroine. Selzenek was extremely dissatisfied with Howard's script that heavily quoted the original lines and claimed to replace the screenwriter. And Howard’s understanding of Hollywood is comparable to that of the young David. He has repeatedly emphasized that the audience will enter the theater only for the novel "Gone with the Wind", and no one will buy you to tamper with the original "Gone with the Wind". . This dispute continued until the end of 1938. David, who could not afford to hold off, decided to start filming "Gone with the Wind" when the heroine candidate was not yet determined (of course, it was mainly on location)...
Let us turn our eyes to Britain in 1938. In a certain apartment in London, a 25-year-old beautiful lady was depressed because of double troubles—thinking for her lover and longing for Scarlett. She is Vivien Leigh (one of the greatest actresses in the history of world cinema; one of the most beautiful actresses in the history of the Oscars; the greatest actress in the history of British drama and the best woman in the eyes of the author of this article-nothing one)! Of course, Vivien at that time was just a budding rookie in the British drama industry. In addition to being the lover of Lawrence Oliver, she was far from worthy of the author's series of titles in parentheses (but the best woman is real !). Since the day Vivien Leigh saw the novel "Gone with the Wind", she felt that there was a blood connection between herself and Scarlett. Her breathing, flesh and blood, and even her soul, could blend into this character without distinction. . She also knows that she must not miss this opportunity, just for the feeling of being connected by blood, it is also worth all her own to pursue! But the green-eyed beauty also knows that an unfamiliar British actor like her has no chance to stand in front of Hollywood stars to show her. Only her famous lover can help. So Vivien began to contact Oliver, who was filming "Wuthering Heights" in the United States, and kept telling him his thoughts. Mr. Oliver had long been fascinated by his beautiful little lover, and immediately booked a ticket to fly to the United States, allowing Miss Li to travel across the ocean to meet him. Vivien Leigh set off immediately, hurriedly packed up his simple luggage-with "Gone with the Wind" in it-and embarked on the journey. On the way to the United States, Vivien read the original novel repeatedly, imitating Scarlett’s words and deeds in her mind over and over again... She gradually felt that she was not only getting closer to the end of this trip, but also feeling away from Scarlett. It’s getting closer too... When I got
off the plane, Vivien Leigh couldn’t wait to ask Oliver to arrange a meeting with the crew of Gone with the Wind. Oliver naturally obeyed the little lover’s words, and immediately arranged for an agent to contact David’s brother Mirren. Serzenek. When Murren saw Vivien Leigh, she was immediately shocked, and immediately took Vivien to the filming location in Atlanta. At the scene of the famous Atlanta fire scene, David O. Selzenek met Vivien Leigh in costume.
When I was directing the shooting of the fire scene, I suddenly saw Mirren leading a woman approaching me. He smiled at me and said, "Genius, come and meet your Scarlett O'Hara!" Against the background, I saw Scarlett, who I had been looking for for a long time, coming out of the book alive!
——From the memories of David O. Selzenek.
Well, everything is settled. In Lislian Howard (as Asley Wilkes-Ashley), Olivia de Havilland (as Melanie Hamilton-Han Meilan), Heidi McDaniel (Played as the black mother) After the actors have been confirmed, the most classic screen couple in film history has also been listened to. The following should be the long-awaited shooting time for the media and movie fans... Why did Selzenek force the unrecognized Vivien Leigh (at the time, the support rate of the Vivien poll was only 30%), which immediately caused an uproar in the American media: there are so many talented and beautiful actresses in Hollywood that you don’t need it, your kid has brought a British girl from the UK who can’t turn her tongue to play the American nobleman in the Lincoln era. Lady, isn't this deceiving me, there is no one in America! As a result, the voices of discussion, doubts, and swearing sounded into a whole... Especially Jack Warner saw that both Flynn and Davis under his team were unsuccessful, and he could not see his old rival Meyer Spring Breeze proudly, so he instigated Petty Davis to attack "Beauty", from Meyer's domineering to David's indecision, and even Gable's sexual abilities have been moved to the table to curse blood! Also catch up with Vivien Lizheng in love with Lawrence Oliver regardless of his marital status. If a married man and a married woman secretly pass the money, it is a trip to adultery. This is nowhere to escape the trial of the moral court... …Many situations are intertwined in one place, and there are so many followers from the media, which makes a lot of fun. And Gable had long been sorrowed by the loss of Joan Crawford, and the sissy who had always despised George Gu Ke, also took the opportunity to propose to the crew such as not using a southern accent to read the lines, and arrive on time from nine to five. Work privileges after work... For a time, Serzenek was internally and diplomatically distressed, and hated that he could not have more than seven or eight hands to deal with the situation. However, David still has a powerful father-in-law. Meyer didn’t want his investment to be in jeopardy, so he stretched out his son-in-law in the face of the dollar, and David was barely able to survive the trouble. "Beautiful" also officially started shooting at the Atlanta location base in early 1939.
Perhaps it is destined that the handed down works were born in an extraordinary process, and "Gone with the Wind" faced the dilemma of almost stopping filming from the beginning. First of all, Selzenek was dissatisfied with Howard's script, and his arrogance broke out and kicked the old fritters out of the crew. Later, David found a screenwriter from nowhere and hurriedly started, and changed Sidney's script into a mess according to his intentions. However, director Gu Ke and the other actors found that the new script was unsuccessful and collectively protested and demanded to change the script. David saw that the anger was hard to commit, and he wanted face and refused to invite Sidney back, so he changed seven or eight screenwriters... Each staff member took five or six scripts of different colors (different colors were used to distinguish different screenwriters), and they were all colorful and lively for a while. Not long after the filming was on track, the contradiction between the actor Gable and the director Gu Ke broke out. Gable had always looked down on Gu Ke’s homosexual behavior, plus Gu Ke, Hollywood’s most famous “friend of women”. "During the directing process, Vivien Leigh was always unconsciously highlighted (from the first meeting, Gu Ke has appreciated Vivien's acting skills and professionalism)... Gabe felt that his authority was challenged. Threatened to resign in anger. And Gu Ke also criticized Gable's many privileges. Seeing that he has the support of all the female colleagues in the crew, he even said that he has nothing to do with Gable! How could David, a new filmmaker, be able to hold down the two big names? In a hurry, he suffered a stomach ailment and went to the hospital to hide in a hurry... Seeing that the crew was faltering, Meyer was worthy of a generation of heroes, weighing the pros and cons and reluctantly , Gu Ke will be replaced. At the same time, L·B personally invited the famous director Victor Fleming to replace Gu Ke, who was an abandoned son. Facts have proved that Jiang is still old and spicy, and Meyer is indeed smart. Fleming has been in Hollywood for many years, and he is deeply impressed. After he took office, he first used his deep personal relationship with Gable (the two are the best friends of wine and meat) to stabilize the actor, and then invited Sidney Howard back to take charge of the script and filmed in accordance with the idea of a faithful original. These two measures quickly stabilized the military's mind and enabled the filming to proceed smoothly. Among them, it is worth mentioning that there is a Gable crying scene in the play, which depicts Ritter crying to Melanie about his love for his wife and daughter after the accidental death of his daughter. But Gable was afraid of damaging his screen image (and damn masculinity), and refused to express his grief. If it were the relentless George Gu Ke, the two would definitely have a fight. Fleming just said: "Try it out, shoot it first, maybe we don't need this lens." Gable finished the crying scene honestly. When watching the samples afterwards, Gable himself admitted that the effect of crying was better
Who would have thought that the war here is just set, and the beacon smoke will start again over there. Vivien Leigh couldn't stand the red soil of Atlanta, and didn't adapt to the brisk and casual work style of his American counterparts, so he felt regretful for a while. Fortunately, after entering the shed, George Gu Keming paid close attention and gave meticulous care and guidance to the British girl who was away from home for the first time as an adult. Vivien Leigh has ever seen a man take care of himself like a sister without any other intentions Compared with my celestial Liu Xiahui tube), I had an uncle-like admiration for Gu Ke for a while (if the author hadn’t told the inside story, I’m afraid everyone would think that the uncle would ask Little Loli to watch the goldfish)... Seeing Gable squeezed Gu Ke away with a domineering blessing, and the little girl Vivien had a temper, and fought with Fleming who replaced Gu Ke everywhere. Originally, Vivien was a high-achieving student at the Royal Academy of Drama. He has received strict stage play training, and his understanding of roles is different from that of many American actors. Gable is barely able to compare with others who are not opponents at all). In addition, without the coordinator of Gu Ke, Vivien Leigh and Fleming had many fierce disputes on the set. No matter what Fleming said, she always said: "George said that at the beginning!" Fleming was speechless with choking. One day Fleming finally got furious and scolded Vivien, "Why don't you post the script to your faithful British ass!" and left the scene angrily. After that, he couldn't get ill, and the filming work came to a halt again.
By the way, Gable saw Vivien Leigh's unruly demeanor, unconsciously annoyed. It should be noted that Gable was in the midst of the day, and even the boss Meyer dared to fight against the table, but since the first time I saw this British chick, he did not have the slightest advantage. That was the beginning of the heroine's determination. The media did not know the depth of Vivien Leigh, and they agreed that Gable would again use masculinity to fascinate Vivien, and the two would definitely become the new pair of wild mandarin ducks. You must know that Clark Gable has a romantic nature. After he became famous, every film must have a spring breeze with the heroine. Even after marriage, his nephew will play the lantern-as usual, so he and the heroine have almost become an unwritten rule in the industry. Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jane Haru, Carol Lombard, Petty Davis, Lana Turna, Susan Haywood, Eva Gardner, Grace, Kelly Marilyn Monroe... A dry actress in her crotch It is said that apart from Nauma Sheila (wife of MGM founder Owen Tilberg) and Barbara Steinwick, it is said that all actresses who have worked with Gable can not escape their clutches. As everyone knows, Vivien is very scheming. On the one hand, she loves Oliver deeply, on the other hand, she has always been unaccustomed to the Yankee countryman. She gave him a slap in the face when she met Gable for the first time-being late. How has Gable ever encountered waiting for others? In addition, Vivien Leigh was still a little-known British actor. For a time, he was furious. Everyone was afraid to avoid it and dodge one after another...At this time, Vivien Leigh appeared gorgeously. She wore a long green dress on the Barbecue section of the Twelve Oaks. The cat usually appeared in front of Gable and said in a sweet southern accent: "Mr. Gable, I very much agree with you. Just let the damn British girl go. Go back to ancient England!" Gable was immediately surprised by Vivien's peerless elegance, and his grievances ran out of the sky a long time ago. After a while, he laughed, and reached out his hand to let Vivien take his arm and walk into the set... For a while, the audience sighed: What a great moment! ! For a while, the two got along well. Gable also received formal drama training, much more professional than many Hollywood stars who had only attended performance training classes at that time. This happened to become the common language of him and Vivien, and they developed an amazing tacit understanding in a short period of time, and they became a pair of excellent partners at work. However, this kind of communication is only limited to the set, and the two of them have never had a close relationship after the end of the play. Perhaps it was Vivien who was extremely alert, or Gable had inadvertently undermined the good business atmosphere... This professional tacit understanding was maintained until the end of the filming.
But now that Gable saw his friends being humiliated, he naturally wanted to vent his anger for the buddies. After a period of cooperation, he found that Vivien Li had a rigorous life style. When filming the kiss scene between the two people, Gable drank and smoked, and deliberately did not clean his dentures (this person has a bad mouth, and he wore a mouthful of dentures at a young age)...the smell of tobacco and alcohol (not a legend) The garlic in the middle) was unbearable for Vivien, but she persisted for the filming, and her face was always pretending to be intoxicated. Whenever everyone sees a classic kiss on the screen, I am afraid that no one would think that Vivien Leigh was full of complaints and repeatedly scolded Gable thousands or 800 times in his heart? !
Closer to home, seeing Fleming missing, David O. Selzenek had to find director Sam Wood to top the tank. At the same time, he pulled up Gable and tried to persuade Fleming to come out again. Fleming finally disregarded everyone's enthusiasm, added Gable's help, and at the same time couldn't bear to let his efforts go to waste, and returned to the set two weeks later. Poor Sam Wood hadn't even distinguished the five or six colors of the script, so he hurriedly dismissed class, so that his name was rarely mentioned many years later. Everyone only knows that there are Gu Ke and Fleming, and they don’t know that "Gone with the Wind" also has the work of Wood...
Since the return of Victor Fleming, the crew has gained the backbone and the filming work has gradually become on track. After Fleming lost to Vivien Leigh, he knew he was not the opponent of this stunning British girl. Whenever he directed Vivien’s bridge, he learned Xu Shu to enter Cao Ying without saying a word and ended up. Make a fortune muffled. After all, Vivien is an actor with a strong professional spirit. While she is doing her best in the role, she also does not forget to communicate frequently with other actors, striving to keep improving in the grasp of the role. Regarding this past event, she recalled: “For almost six months, I only thought of Scarlett from morning to night. I hope that every gesture and gesture of mine is purely Scarlett’s. . I should feel that even Scarlett’s contemptuous acts were done by me.” According to De Havilland, she often saw Vivien alone trying to figure out the image in the film until late at night, so often Talking to herself like a devil, crying and laughing...At the same time, the flying red earth and dry climate of the western United States and the miss of Oliver made Vivien Leigh quickly weakened. In order to get rid of the torture of loneliness, she began to smoke... At the end of the film, she was finally exhausted and was found to be suffering from tuberculosis... Although Vivien recovered quickly, no one knew that her lungs had hidden a fatal hazard; and she was also clever in mind. Another woman named Scarlett O'Hara was stationed in, until a sudden eruption at the dining table at home one night after many years, entangled her short and colorful life...
By the middle of 1939, "Gone with the Wind" had been filming for more than half a year, and after changing directors three times and screenwriters countless times, exceeding the budget by one million dollars, it finally came to the final moment. At the end of the filming work, two interesting things happened. First of all, when filming a scene of Butler insulting Scarlett at night, there was a scene that required Gable to pick up Vivien and walk up the long steps. When this scene was filmed, perhaps in order to avenge Gable’s teasing, Vivien managed to make a little mistake every time he was filming, which made Gable had to repeat this strenuous segment again and again. To catch up with Scarlett, kiss her, scold her, and hug her upstairs-when Gable finally tried to scold her because of exhaustion, Fleming behind the camera smiled and said, "Clark, actually the first time is fine. After saying this, everyone was surprised, and then they suddenly realized that they all laughed. Later, when filming a scene where Butler said goodbye to Scarlett and left Tara Manor, Ritter’s last shot had a line "Dear, I don’t care!" , I don't fucking care about it!" The on-site effect was quite good. When the final film was submitted for censorship, just as the "anti-screen uncivilized behavior" movement began in the American film industry, MGM had to take this shot again after Gable paid a ten-dollar fine. It can be said that a "Fuck" is worth a thousand dollars!
On December 15, 1939, Atlanta, the capital of the state of Georgia, USA, had a population of only 300,000 in this small city soaring to one million in just a few days! The whole city has a day off, and the flag of the southern government during the Civil War is also flying everywhere in the city... It all stems from the movie "Gone with the Wind" finally released after all the hardships! At the premiere, the spring-faced Clark Gable attended with his wife and announced to hundreds of thousands of fans: "This is Margaret Michelle's night! It is also your night! I will be one of you all. Members come to watch this handed down work!” But during the filming process, Gable slipped out of the box and met with the original author Michel privately, and the two had a long conversation for two hours. Afterwards, according to Gable’s wife, Carol Lombard, Gable learned that Michelle had completely reproduced her own marriage experience when she wrote the novel, and wrote about Ritter Bart with reference to her first husband. This image of Le, rather than the previous media rumors, was arranged in accordance with Gable’s screen image... Gable was very excited when he heard of this news, because it means that he himself played Captain Butler entirely by his own strength, which is what he can do in his acting career. A peak reached.
After the film’s premiere, the media and the audience were crazy about Vivien Leigh’s wonderful performance. She and Gable’s screen partner were extremely successful and reached the highest peak in the history of masterpiece adaptation. So far, no other similar image can match them. Level! The 26-year-old Vivien Leigh became famous overnight, and countless Hollywood studios waved a big check and looked forward to her joining. And this green-eyed beauty who loves the stage only returned to the UK after filming "Broken Blue Bridge" in the second year to continue her beloved drama career. Vivien Leigh was the first actress to refuse the temptation of Hollywood's colorful world. She knew that half of her soul had been buried in the red land of Atlanta, but she didn't know that the other half would be on the "Desire" in ten years' time. Streetcar is dedicated to the dancing girl Blanche...
In February 1940, Gone with the Wind was nominated for 13th Oscar Film Awards. And won eight awards in one fell swoop, including best film, best director, best supporting actress, best screenwriter, best photography, best art direction, and best editing. Vivien Lai took the throne as the queen of the movie. She gave a thin dress at the awards ceremony. She surprised four people with just a suspender dress. The host also had to sigh: "Why does she have such a beautiful appearance and such acting skills?! Why is she so beautiful for her acting skills?! "Unexpectedly, the laurels of the actor who had been the most vocal winner of Gable's award were awarded to Robert Donat, the star of "The Master of All Worlds". This result caused an uproar among those present. Clark Gable himself also left the scene angrily. It is said that afterwards he once said to his wife: "I am afraid I will never have the opportunity to kiss the Golden Man again." It was reported that MGM later. Owner Louis B. Meyer was worried that Gable would become more disobedient after winning the award again. The judges who bought the Academy Award voted ambiguously, making Gable missed the film king. But I am afraid that Gable did not expect that this role won him such a high praise, even if it will not be forgotten for many years in the future! And another high-profile candidate, Olivia de Havilland, the actor of Melanie Hamilton, also unexpectedly lost to Heidi McDaniel, the actor of Black Mother (the first in Oscar history) Award-winning black actor), this unexpected incident caused two actors to cry into a ball, one on stage and one off stage, and staged a live version of tragic and joyful days... The most surprising and regrettable is the best screenwriter winner Sidney Howard One month before the award, he was crushed to death by a tractor on his farm, making him the first hard-working person in Oscar history to win the award behind him. I still remembered the fierce controversy on the set, I don't know how sentimental Selzenek, who accepted the award in his place, was in his heart.
"Gone with the Wind" truly achieved both fame and fortune. After 1939, it was released in many countries around the world, and it was bound to become the local box office champion wherever it went. Until 1953 (affected by the Second World War), "Gone with the Wind" had a total box office of US$180 million in major countries and regions around the world. After more than 50 years, it has been released multiple times worldwide. So far, the box office has exceeded 3.5. One hundred million U.S. dollars. If you consider the factor of inflation, the global box office of Gone with the Wind has reached a staggering 1.3 billion U.S. dollars! This number is much higher than that of "Titanic", "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Jurassic Park" trilogy and other blockbuster films, and it is the well-deserved number one blockbuster film in the history of film! If today's movies rely on high-tech methods and large-scale productions to attract audiences, Gone with the Wind relies entirely on the most essential things of the film-narration and performance-to reach the almost unsurpassed peak in the history of film. In particular, the performances of the male and female protagonists in the film can be used as a model for the interpretation of the method and the character, and they are always admired and imitated by later generations. After achieving amazing achievements, "Gone with the Wind" exhausted a large number of excellent cast and crew of their talents, allowing them to reach the pinnacle like a fate and suffer for the rest of their lives...
Victor Fleming: This An iconic figure in American film history has since started to decline. Although he also directed "Jan of Arc" starring Ingrid Bergman, it is far from reaching the peak level. Later Fleming died of a stroke on January 6, 1949 due to excessive drinking for a long time at the age of 66...
Clark Gable: After the completion of "Gone with the Wind", it was as true as he said, and there was no chance to compete for the actor. After the film was finished, he experienced the pain of losing his wife and joined the US Air Force to participate in World War II and was awarded a medal. After returning to Hollywood, Gable moved to many second-rate films and continued his romantic life. It wasn't until the film "Untimely Man" was completed in 1960 that the tough guy on the screen was knocked down by a truck tire that needed to be replaced and fell ill. He died in the arms of his wife Kay in the early morning of November 16th...
Vivien Leigh: After winning the crown, he returned to the UK and participated in many well-known films and plays. After going to the United States to shoot the film "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951 and won both Venice and Oscars, he was admitted to the hospital with a sudden acute schizophrenia, and then divorced her husband Lawrence Oliver and did not marry, and in July 1967 Passed away from lung disease at home on the 7th day and night. That night, all the theatres in London turned off the foot lamp for five minutes to show their condolences for the greatest actress in British history. And her simple epitaph only engraved the sentence "Reaper, you can boast, a peerless beauty is in your possession"...
Olivi de Havilland: Many films after "Gone with the Wind" His performance was mediocre, with multiple Oscar nominations and only one award, and his popularity has never been as good as his half-sister Joan Fontaine. Later, she was concealed because of her bad relationship with Warner Corporation. Olivia angrily appealed and won, which relieved the film company's oppression of its actors to a large extent. This is the well-known "Haviland Act." After that, she withdrew from the film world and came to Paris to live in seclusion...
Heidi McDaniel: This simple and honest musical actor was quickly forgotten after reaching the pinnacle of her honor in her life. Her performances in the film were also taken by the United States. The leftists strongly attacked. Until 2006, in order to commemorate her outstanding contribution to American film, the United States Postal Association issued a commemorative stamp with Heidi as the pattern to the country. Seeing Denzel Washington, Hayley Berry, Jr. Cuban Guding Fres Whitaker and other younger generations successively ascend to the Oscar throne, I don’t know how she feels in the heart of the Spirit of Heaven...
Postscript:
One day almost twenty years ago, the young author accidentally saw the laser disc (LD) version of "Gone with the Wind", and was deeply attracted by the beautiful heroine and the twists and turns of the story. From that moment on, Vivien Leigh, who was wearing a tight-fitting dress under the warm sunshine of the southern afternoon, was deeply imprinted in my mind. The admiration for this beautiful lady made me pay attention to her life. It can be said that Vivien’s softness and elegance made me learn more about the film Gone with the Wind. In the following two decades, I have collected multiple versions of "Gone with the Wind" and the novel "Gone with the Wind", consciously or unconsciously, and watched the film no less than three times a year. Compared with the high-tech and big scenes revealed by the development of today’s movies, the technical methods of Gone with the Wind are already far behind and can be called crude. Hard to see. For example, Jane Daville, who played Bell Waterling in the film, portrayed an otherwise ordinary character in the book unforgettable, especially her lonely and lonely eyes after Ritter left, enough to match Scarlett in the film The scripture of "God Testifies" is comparable. In today's impetuous entertainment circle, remake of classics seems to be a fashion, but even "Casablanca" dared to re-interpret Hollywood, no one has the courage to touch "Gone with the Wind". I think that unless technology develops to the point where CG animation can be used to replace real-life interpretation, the immortal image created by Vivien and Gable in Gone with the Wind will permanently become the shining jewel at the top of the crown of movie performances. , No one can successfully extract it!
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