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Posted: **Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:37 am**

Big Magilla wrote:And on this day in 1962, they posted a long piece about Grace Kelly returning to the screen to star in Hitchcock's Marnie.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesm ... 041138.pdf

This episode in her life was covered in the film "Grace". Hubby was dead against her returning to Hollywood.

Posted: **Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:22 am**

And on this day in 1962, they posted a long piece about Grace Kelly returning to the screen to star in Hitchcock's Marnie.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesm ... 041138.pdf

Posted: **Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:57 am**

Big Magilla wrote:On this day, March 19, 1937, the New York Times reported that it had heard from a source close to David O. Selznick that Miriam Hopkins, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Janet Gaynor had been selected by Selznick to play the leads in Gone with the Wind to be directed by George Cukor.

Tallulah Bankhead was runner-up to Hopkins for the role of Scarlet O'Hara.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesm ... 967036.pdf

In hindsight both Hopkins and Bankhead seem like absurd choices compared to Leigh.

Gaynor was too old as Melanie.

And Howard was a lousy choice period - the only jarring final casting choice in the film.

Gable was such an inspired candidate from the word go. He WAS Rhett Butler.

Posted: **Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:21 am**

On this day, March 19, 1937, the New York Times reported that it had heard from a source close to David O. Selznick that Miriam Hopkins, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Janet Gaynor had been selected by Selznick to play the leads in Gone with the Wind to be directed by George Cukor.

Tallulah Bankhead was runner-up to Hopkins for the role of Scarlet O'Hara.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesm ... 967036.pdf

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