"India Wilkes" from GWTW has died at 98

[Linda Anderson]

(01-05-2014 01:45 AM)Thomas Thorne Wrote:  GWTW Producer David O. Selznick sent a talent scout through the South to discover would be Scarletts and Melanies. Alicia Rhett was the only actress he found who wound up in the film.

The movements of the talent scout received widespread coverage in the local press. Whenever he arrived at a new city,he received royal treatment. It is said that some of the young ladies were so eager to play Scarlett, they "engaged in more intimate forms of Southern hospitality."

We can only guess if the talent scout was the villain or victim of the affair.
Tom

I think it is the casting couch mentality that is the true villain here.