Word: tallichet
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Married. William Wyler, 34, cinema director (These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel), divorced husband of Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan; and Margaret Tallichet, 23-year-old onetime typist who was "discovered" by Carole Lombard, chosen to play Careen O'Hara (Scarlett's sister); at Lake Arrowhead, Calif...
...years, the vital question of who would play Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth...
...Hara was far from unanimous. It seemed to call for a blend of gusty Tallulah Bankhead, smoldering Miriam Hopkins, redheaded Erin O'Brien-Moore, flashing Paulette Goddard. For Scarlett, Producer Selznick scanned one after another of the public's suggestions, considered as well young Actresses Margaret Tallichet and Arlene Whalen, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, nee Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus (his backer's wife). On his problems Producer Selznick has for nearly two years been pondering. And other studios, expecting that the cinema Gone With the Wind would be a first-rate harbinger for a whopping cycle...