From the casting of Scarlett O’Hara to Rhett Butler’s “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” all of David Selznick’s actions were based on the idea that any methods were justified to make GWTW come out the way he wanted. Herewith the rest of the story of the filming of a classic, together with some second thoughts about the movie by five contemporary American film critics.
How the epic film came to be—and why Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Norma Shearer, Miriam Hopkins, Irene Dunne, Paulette Goddard, and Loretta Young didn't get the role