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Post by mattgarth on Dec 17, 2018 21:47:20 GMT
Charles Bronson as "Dirty Harry" Sterling Holloway as the scarecrow in "Wizard of Oz" Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man but had to drop out when he became allergic to the silver makeup.
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 17, 2018 21:48:45 GMT
Randolph Scott as 'Ashley Wilkes' in GWTW.
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Post by marianne48 on Dec 18, 2018 0:21:42 GMT
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes always seemed as not-quite-right for their respective roles in Gone With the Wind. Henry Fonda might have been a better choice--boyishly handsome and earnest, he would have been more believable as the object of Scarlett's teen crush and the childhood sweetheart of Melanie (and he wouldn't have the out-of-place English accent, either). Leigh seemed rather pallid and simpering in the role of Scarlett, not the type of woman that all the men in town would be pursuing. They would be more likely to be drooling after Hedy Lamarr. Ida Lupino might also be a better choice--tiny, pretty, but ferocious and calculating, more like Scarlett in the novel.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 18, 2018 1:59:25 GMT
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes always seemed as not-quite-right for their respective roles in Gone With the Wind. Henry Fonda might have been a better choice--boyishly handsome and earnest, he would have been more believable as the object of Scarlett's teen crush and the childhood sweetheart of Melanie (and he wouldn't have the out-of-place English accent, either). Leigh seemed rather pallid and simpering in the role of Scarlett, not the type of woman that all the men in town would be pursuing. They would be more likely to be drooling after Hedy Lamarr. Ida Lupino might also be a better choice--tiny, pretty, but ferocious and calculating, more like Scarlett in the novel. While we diverge on the effectiveness of Vivien Leigh as Scarlett, I find the Fonda suggestion a fascinating one. He possessed the quiet sensitivity and earnestly thoughtful qualities crucial to Ashley's character, but also the degree of physical magnetism that would have attracted her (and would have been more age-appropriate than mid-40s Howard). In a way, Fonda had already done his "Ashley" to Bette Davis's "Scarlett" in Warner's beat-Selznick-to-the-punch Jezebel a year earlier, confirming the suitability of the choice.
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