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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 444578" data-attributes="member: 7">There is not another actress I can see playing Scarlett except Vivien Leigh. Vivien as Scarlett was the perfect marriage between actress and character, and no one else could&#039;ve done the part justice. That said, Bette Davis desperately wanted to play Scarlett, and went to her grave feeling she should&#039;ve gotten the role. In her autobiography, Davis says, &quot;It was insanity I not be given Scarlett&quot;, although she once told Dick Cavett that she had declined the part somewhere around 1936 when Jack Warner offered it to her. Believing it to be another trash story similar to the ones that been giving her at the time, she laughed it off, saying, &quot;I bet it&#039;s a dilly, too,&quot; and walked away from Hollywood with the plan to make films in England. This is the version she told Cavett in the early-70s anyway. Davis, a very good actress, was not right for Scarlett. I second your assessment that GONE WITH THE WIND wouldn&#039;t&#039;ve been as big of a hit in 1939 nor would be as fondly remembered today had Davis played Scarlett. JEZEBEL, however, was perfect for Bette. One writer said, &quot;It wasn&#039;t the wind, but it was a respectable breeze.&quot; [ATTACH=full]59650[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 444578, member: 7"] There is not another actress I can see playing Scarlett except Vivien Leigh. Vivien as Scarlett was the perfect marriage between actress and character, and no one else could've done the part justice. That said, Bette Davis [B][I]desperately[/I][/B] wanted to play Scarlett, and went to her grave feeling she should've gotten the role. In her autobiography, Davis says, "It was insanity I not be given Scarlett", although she once told Dick Cavett that she had declined the part somewhere around 1936 when Jack Warner offered it to her. Believing it to be another trash story similar to the ones that been giving her at the time, she laughed it off, saying, "I bet it's a dilly, too," and walked away from Hollywood with the plan to make films in England. This is the version she told Cavett in the early-70s anyway. Davis, a very good actress, was not right for Scarlett. I second your assessment that GONE WITH THE WIND wouldn't've been as big of a hit in 1939 nor would be as fondly remembered today had Davis played Scarlett. JEZEBEL, however, was perfect for Bette. One writer said, "It wasn't the wind, but it was a respectable breeze." [ATTACH type="full"]59650[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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