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Gone With The Wind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clark Gable in March 1940:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tried to duck that Rhett assignment, you know. I didn\u2019t want any part of it. I had my neck out far enough; acting characters that only script writers had ideas about in advance, without sticking it out where everybody could take a swipe at it. Everybody this side of Tibet had read the book, and everybody had different ideas about Rhett, and it was a cinch I couldn\u2019t please everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThey tried to tell me I was \u2018everybody\u2019s choice for the role.\u2019 They showed me carloads of letters to \u2018prove\u2019 it. The only way that made me feel good was that, in case I did play the role and there were any complaints\u201d\u2014he grinned again\u2014\u201cI could always say, \u2018Folks, you asked for it!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen they tried to make out that Margaret Mitchell had had me in mind when she created the character. That didn\u2019t go down with me. The book came out in 1936. She had been writing it for three solid years before that, and planning it for years before that. According to my figuring, she thought of Rhett Butler long before anybody, anywhere, thought of me twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had an answer for all their arguments except one. That one floored me. It was: if I played Rhett, Selznick would release the picture through MGM, which would mean a lot to the home team.\u201d He sounded like a fellow who went out for football for good old alma mater, not because he wanted to play football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark laughed. \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t think I wanted to play. But once I got into the spirit of the thing, I played my fool head off. And had a good time doing it\u2014with Victor Fleming coaching and with running mates like Leigh and Howard and de Havilland. The only thing that bothers me is: I still don\u2019t know what kind of showing I made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI like the picture; I think it\u2019s a good one; but that doesn\u2019t mean a thing. I got paid for making it. Besides, any ham likes any picture that gives him a meaty role. And what critics say doesn\u2019t mean much, either. They see shows on passes. The opinion I\u2019m waiting for is the opinion of the fellow who plunks down thirty-five cents of his own hard-earned dough to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark pictured in a wardrobe still for GONE WITH THE WIND, 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clark Gable in March 1940: \u201cI tried to duck that Rhett assignment, you know. I didn\u2019t want any part of it. I had my neck out far enough; acting characters that only script writers had ideas about in advance, without sticking it out where everybody could take a swipe at it. 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