A Drunken Rhett Threatens Scarlett

On Monday, May 29, 1939, Victor Fleming finished directing Rhett’s drunken clash with Scarlett in the dining room of their Atlanta home, hours after she returned from Ashley’s birthday party.   Rhett’s smoldering rage — “Observe my hands, my dear. I could tear...

Rhett Prefers to Take the Stairs

On Saturday, May 27, 1939, director Victor Fleming gathered his cast on the set of Scarlett’s Atlanta house for the second day of work on the “Row and Rape” sequence. With cameras rolling, Clark Gable seized and kissed Vivien Leigh violently at the foot of the...