If Vivien Leigh hadn't existed?
Vivian Vance, of course.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 13, 2025 2:24 AM |
Billy Porter.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 13, 2025 2:26 AM |
Paulette Goddard would have been very good but Scarlett was Vivien's role and the film would not be the classic it is without her. Much like Shirley Temple could have played Dorothy but Wizard of Oz would not be what it is without Judy.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 13, 2025 2:29 AM |
AVA GARDNER
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 13, 2025 2:29 AM |
She might have been too young, but I think Jennifer Jones could have done it, not as well as Leigh, but I think Scarlett was in her wheel house. Goddard read as too hard...Scarlett WAS hard but not in presentation.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 13, 2025 2:31 AM |
Brendad Ickson
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 13, 2025 2:53 AM |
Why wasn't Bette Davis on this poll? She basically won an Oscar for playing the same character in Jezebel.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 13, 2025 3:02 AM |
Hedy Lamarr was most similar to Vivian Leigh in appearance.
Scarlett as played by Leigh was very quick— quick-spoken, quick acting, quick tempered—as was Bette Davis.
Ava Gardner, can you see her on the front porch with the Tarleton twins? or Ashley? She looks like she’d eat them for breakfast. She’d be a good match for Rhett though. She’s more lethargic than quick so it would be quite a different character.
I believe the author wrote Rhett Butler’s character with Clark Gable in mind but I’ve never heard who she envisioned for Scarlett (originally named Pansy).
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 13, 2025 3:28 AM |
Absolutely no one. Vivien WAS Scarlett . I will go to my grave however,wishing that anybody but Leslie Howard played Ashley Wilkes. Out of a stellar cast he was just rotten.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 13, 2025 3:54 AM |
Well, that was really quite revolting, R9.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 13, 2025 4:15 AM |
Anyone else could have played Scarlett. Just not very well.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 13, 2025 4:44 AM |
No one could match Vivien Leigh, but just for chuckles...Joan Bennett
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 13, 2025 5:22 AM |
I forgot Merle Oberon.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 13, 2025 5:59 AM |
Martha Raye
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 13, 2025 6:11 AM |
Tallulah Bankhead could have been amazing.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 13, 2025 6:28 AM |
Mae West
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 13, 2025 6:39 AM |
Scarlett was 16 when the novel began.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 13, 2025 6:40 AM |
Vivian Leigh was the best choice; however, after seeing Paulette Goddard's screen tests I think she would have done an excellent job.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 13, 2025 7:04 AM |
<- Jeffrey Lynn as Ashley would've explained why all the girls was so hot!
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 13, 2025 4:28 PM |
[quote]after seeing Paulette Goddard's screen tests I think she would have done an excellent job.
"Paulette, your face is so hard!"
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 13, 2025 10:32 PM |
“Is it?”
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 14, 2025 12:17 PM |
La Hayward ad libbing "now outta my way, I got a man waiting for me" during her screen test probably cost her the part of Scarlett.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 14, 2025 12:49 PM |