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They’re dropping like kittens this summer! First Evelyn Keyes, then Fred Crane, and now Hazel Warp, who served as Vivien Leigh’s stunt double as Scarlet O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind,” has died.
A spokeswoman at Evergreen Healthcare in Livingston confirmed that Warp died Tuesday at Livingston Memorial Hospital. She was 93.
Warp was born in Harlowton [...]

Fred Crane, who has died aged 90, played one of the Tarleton twins in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Article from The Telegraph:
As Brent Tarleton, one of Scarlett O’Hara’s handsome suitors, Crane delivers the first line of the film to Vivien Leigh in a scene on the front porch of the plantation house, Tara. His twin [...]

The audactity!
Article via WSPA:
A first-edition copy of “Gone With the Wind” signed by author Margaret Mitchell was tossed into a creek by suspects in a church burglary, according to Haywood County investigators. The book was inside a safe stolen from Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church. Detectives say the suspects broke open the safe, [...]

The Times and Warner Home Video are giving away ten sets of Classic DVDS from the Movies That Matter Collection. The contest is running until Monday, the 18th of August 2008.
All you have to do to win is to watch the trailers to find the answers:
1) Casablanca
Which World War was this love story set in?
2) [...]

Scarlett O’Hara Screen Tests: Before Vivien Leigh there were thousands more auditioning for the part of a life time. Here are some of the notable rivals for the role.

[Photoplay 1940, 2]
By: Clark Gable
To begin with I’d like to state that despite what a lot of papers said there was never any feud between Vivien Leigh and inc during the filming of ”Gone with the Wind” or at any time thereafter.
Hollywood goes just as much to extremes when it comes to male and female [...]