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Vivien Leigh

December 8, 2015 - Jill Morena

Another view of Scarlett O’Hara

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Costumes and Personal Effects, Doris Langley Moore, fashion, fashion history, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Godey's Lady's Book, Gone with the Wind, Gone With The Wind dresses, Helen Larson, hoop skirts, Vivien Leigh, women’s fashion

Ten years after the release of Gone With the Wind, actress Vivien Leigh modeled real-life, historic nineteenth-century clothes for pioneer fashion historian and Byron scholar Doris Langley Moore for the publication The Woman in Fashion (1949).

November 5, 2014 - Gabrielle Inhofe

In the Galleries: “Gone With The Wind” producer David O. Selznick demanded proper Southern accents from actors

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: accent, Clark Gable, David O. Selznick, dialect, exhibition, Film, George Cukor, Henry Ginsberg, In the Galleries, Leslie Howard, Southern accent, Susan Myrick, The Making of Gone With The Wind, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh, Will Price

Letters poured into producer David O. Selznick’s office on the proper use of Southern accents in Gone With The Wind. One woman wrote, “Come South and study our dialect. I don’t know your people as you do, but it cuts deep when we see our lovely old Southern life ‘hashed… read more

September 30, 2014 - Alicia Dietrich

Matthew Bernstein delves into complexities of staging “Gone With The Wind” premiere in a segregated Atlanta in 1939

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Atlanta, Atlanta premiere, Clark Gable, David O. Selznick, Gone with the Wind, Great Depression, Hattie McDaniel, Kay Brown, Margaret Mitchell, Matthew Bernstein, Robert Willis, Selznick’s March: Hollywood Comes to White Atlanta, The Making of Gone With The Wind, Vivien Leigh

On Thursday, October 16, at 7 p.m., Matthew H. Bernstein, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University, discusses “Selznick’s March: Hollywood Comes to White Atlanta” at the Harry Ransom Center. The world premiere of Gone With The Wind in Atlanta was the culmination of months of anxious… read more

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