Fun Film Fact 07/18/11

Leslie Howard, best known for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind, never intended to be an actor. He was working as a bank clerk when World War I broke out and he enlisted. After the war he was diagnosed as shell-shocked (which is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder) and was advised to take up acting as a form of therapy. Within a few years he became a well-respected actor in both London and New York.

Fun Film Fact 06/07/11

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
It took the filmmakers so long to cast the part of Scarlett O'Hara that they had to start filming before they had found the right actress. Director Victor Flemming was well into filming the burning of Atlanta sequence before Vivien Leigh was cast.