Young Mr. Lincoln

[BettyO]

I don't know about Mitchell's choice for Rhett -- but to me, Clark Gable has always BEEN Rhett Butler and always will be! No one else could ever do the role as he did it -- and from what I've heard, Gable was reluctant to play the role until he made a deal with his favorite director, Victor Fleming. Gable was also contracted to a rival studio and had to be "exchanged" or hired for a fee by Selznick.

"Miriam Hopkins was the choice of the novel's author Margaret Mitchell, who felt Hopkins, a Georgia native, was just the right type of actress to play Scarlett as written in the book." - Wiki