Trashy...even 'Scarlett' the sequel is better

NOOoo...I don't have to be there to know that such ridiculous and absurd scenarios as the ones in Scarlett O'Hara Wars happened. They did not. What need did these big stars have to even sleep with some Hollywood type to get a part ? Joan Crawford was a big star. If she wanted the part and didn't get it, it didn't matter to her. She was no less a star. Paulette Goddard was a good actress and would have gotten the part if Vivien Leigh had not been cast. By all accounts, Selznick was ready to cast her and did the most number of test scenes with her. Goddard memorized not only Scarlett's lines but other characters as well. Goddard did not need to sleep with anyone. She was not a starlet. It's as crazy as thinking the same happend with Bette Davis or Tallulah Bankhead - two major stars one of them already an Oscar winner (Davis).

If there was indeed any "sleep with this guy and you might get the part" things going on it might have happened with the dozens of dozens of non-actress girls from the South who wanted to be Scarlett. Selznick sent men to find an authentic Southern girl to play Scarlett. Unfortunately some of them were even beneath the status of starlet. They were girls who had no acting talent or training whatsoever. Perhaps these poor girls were fooled into thinking they coul get the part. But I really find that hard to believe. If anything they had their photographs taken and were fed a bunch of false promises. It was a way for Hollywood to make money off aspiring actresses.

But there is no truth whatsoever in the BIGGER STARS wanting the part so bad that they slept with some guy in production of the film.....

Joan crawford was in such a power position that she had a movie turned off and never ever showned (can t remember the name..go check..is a musical)not to talk about what she did with tha movie with jonny mack brown..had him rmeoved and all his part reshot with gable!