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Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind

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Vivien Leigh was actually an English actress that was hired to take the starring role in Gone With the Wind back in 1939 playing the part of a Southern Belle. At the time, Leigh supposedly had a manic personality, and while dating co-star Laurence Olivier, they were both so sure that the movie would end up a total flop. While thinking about what would be of their careers, Olivier shared, “You have got to justify yourself in the next two or 3 films (or even 2 or 3 years) by proving that the presumable failure of Gone W.T.W. was not your fault and you can only do that by being really good in the following parts. To make a success of your career in pictures [is] ESSENTIAL for yourself respect, and our ultimate happiness therefore. … If you don’t, I am afraid you may become just — well boring.”