Gone with the Wind was a sensation long before it hit ... considered a mixed blessing for racial progress, since Mammy, the character she played in the film, conformed to many racial stereotypes ...

Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind," died in 1967 at age 53 from tuberculosis. She also starred ...

Leigh in a shot from the legendary “Gone With the Wind.” Courtesy Everett Collection In 1937, he cast her as Ophelia to his Hamlet, and she “flew at him like a demon” backstage.