#cgableedit

[marciabrady]

“No one had doubted Gable’s success in the role of Rhett Butler. The role and script had been tailor-made to fit his cinema image and even if his mouthful of blazing white teeth were false and his ears did have to be stuck back, when he looked out of the screen in the dark cinema auditorium every woman present felt it a very private moment between herself and Gable. But with Vivien it was different. She mesmerized every member of the audience not only by her beauty and strength of character but a magic that filled the screen. Here was a great film star and everyone knew it. Selznick had moist eyes when the lights went on.” -Gwen Robyns 

[marciabrady]

“We had been waiting for over an hour for Vivien Leigh (there was miscommunication about the time of the shoot)…the shots were in costume. Clark was pacing back and forth… ‘I couldn't make love to that dame now if she were the most beautiful woman in the world!’ And then, a rustle of silk, the sweet smell of lilacs and there was the most beautiful woman in the world, standing behind him, touching his shoulder, whispering like a summer breeze… ‘I quite agree, Mr. Gable. If I were a man, I’d tell that Vivien Leigh to go right back to merry old England and fuck herself.’ Gable turned and looked. Leigh looked back. The look in their eyes had flashbulbs in it. Slowly Rhett Butler took Scarlett O’Hara by the arm and walked onto the Southern staircase, talking and smiling as though they’d known each other all their lives.”  -Clarence Sinclair Bull

[marciabrady]

"I’ll be truthful about it(…) I’ll confess that the first time I saw her I doubted that Vivien could really play Scarlett. That reaction shows I’m no casting director(...) Vivien seemed too demure to me, at that first meeting, for the vivid, relentless Scarlett. David Selznick introduced us to each other at a dinner party at his home. Vivien was wearing a very plain, tailored dress. She’s much tinier in real life than she appears on the screen, and since she uses little make-up she has a very young, unsophisticated air(...) Now I know I should have stopped to consider all that(...) but I just looked at her that first evening at David’s and wondered if that keen-minded producer had gone haywire when he signed her. I knew he hadn’t the first day Vivien and I got on a set together."

[marciabrady]

"Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, ‘How are you not getting on today?’"

[marciabrady]

[marciabrady]

[marciabrady]

"Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation."

[marciabrady]

"Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I'd go away and try to forget you, but I couldn't and I always had to come back. After the war I risked arrest, just to come back and find you. I cared so much to believe I would have killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn't died when he did. I loved you but I couldn't let you know it. You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip."