in Hollywood

Lucille Ball was one of the many actresses to
be considered for the part of Scarlett.
See Lucy finally play Scarlett here:   Part 1   Part 2  
To watch the original movie trailer click here

If you are visiting the Los Angeles area here
are some interesting places associated with
GWTW and it's stars.

Culver City Studios
(Selznick International)
 9336 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA. (310) 836-5537
Founded 1919

The REAL home of GWTW the Movie!

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Founded 1927
7000 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA. phone: (323) 466-7000

The Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 Sunset Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA.  (310) 276-2251 or (800) 283-8885

Home of the famous Polo Lounge where
the stars would go after playing polo at Will Rogers' estate.
(now you know how it got it's name!)
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard rendezvoused here before Gable's divorce, in nearby bungalow #4.


Peterson Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA.  (323) 930-CARS.
Clark Gable's beautiful brown 1956
Mercedes Benz 300SC coupe is on display here.


Clark Gable's star is at: 1608 Vine Street
Vivien Leigh's Star is at: 6773 Hollywood Blvd.
For a complete list of all 2000+ "stars" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame complete with addresses,
send $4 to: the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, 7018 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA. 90028.

See Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh
immortalized in wax at:
Movieland Wax Museum
7711 Beach Boulevar, Buena Park, CA.  (714) 522-1154 or (714) 522-1155
In the 1970's the GWTW display here had
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett in the Original
"Shame" dress posed before one of the camera's
used to film the movie.

Clark Gable's Home
His ranch in Encino was at 4543 Tara Drive,
bordered by Ashley Oak street, sadly now a subdivision.


Where the Stars are Buried
~~~

Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
1712 S. Glendale Avenue
Glendale, CA.  (323) 254-3131
(Forest Lawn will not tell you where grave sites are)
~ ~ ~
Rand Brooks
Charles Hamilton
September 21, 1918-September 1, 2003 
Santa Ynez, California
Plot: Garden of Honor, Columbarium of Courage, Garden Niche G-1066

David O. Selznick
1900-1965
A true Hollywood mogul by any definition of the word.

 Plot: Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Trust, near Clark Gable 
    



Clark Gable
Rhett Butler
 b. February 1, 1901  d. November 16, 1960

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard (1908-1942)
are buried side by side.


Not far away is Jean Harlow (1911-1937)
Plot: Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction, Private Family Mausoleum Room #34, Crypt B
The blonde bombshell who starred in six movies with Clark Gable.
They were very close friends and Gable was a pallbearer at her extravagant funeral.


George Cukor
The First director of GWTW
Jul. 7, 1899-Jan. 24, 1983
Plot: Garden of Honor (Private Garden), unmarked
 

Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills
~ ~ ~
  
Carroll Nye
(Frank Kennedy) 
b. October 4, 1901  d. March 17, 1974
Plot: Loving Kindness, L-8739 G-3


Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952) She made Hollywwod history when she won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award 1940 for her outstanding portrayal of Mammy in Gone With the Wind. McDaniel's fame made her a target of black critics (notably the NAACP) accused her of reinforcing negative stereotypes.  As McDaniel ruefully quipped, "I'd rather play a maid for $700 a week than be one for $7 a week". Sadly, her amazing "Gone With the Wind" triumph did nothing to shield her from the segregationist attitudes of her time. She was not allowed to attend the film's Atlanta premiere and at the Academy Awards ceremony, she and her husband had to sit in the back of the room, at a table reserved just for them. It was Hattie's last wish to be buried in a white casket at Hollywood memorial Park, next to her fellow stars. But back in the 1950's, racist laws prohibited burying black people in "white cemeteries."  So instead, Hattie's family buried her at: Rosedale Cemetery 1831 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.  (323) 734-3155 In1999, the new owners of Hollywood Memorial Park  did their best to right the wrong done to Hattie when a memorial cenotaph for the actress was finally placed there by McDaniel's relatives and by Tyler Cassity, owner of the now-renamed Hollywood Forever cemetery.  Hattie's family didn't want to move her remains at this late date, so the cemetery did the next best thing, they built a memorial to Hattie, on the lawn overlooking the lake.

 

Victor Fleming  
(1883-1949)
No other director on earth accomplished what Fleming did in 1939,
when he directed two of the most beloved movies in the history of Hollywood
in the very same year: 
"The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind."
Location of grave: The Sanctuary of Refuge crypt #2081

Other Locations
~ ~ ~

Thomas Mitchell
Gerald O'Hara
Jul. 11, 1892-Dec. 17, 1962

Chapel of the Pines Crematory
1605 S. Catalina
Los Angeles, California
His ashes are in vaultage.

George Bessolo Reeves
Stuart Tarleton
Jan. 6, 1914-Jun. 16, 1959
Mountain View Cemetery,
2400 N. Fair Oaks Avenue
Altadena, California
Pasadena Mausoleum- Sunrise Corridor

Laura Hope Crews
Aunt Pitty Pat Hamilton
Dec. 12, 1879 - Sep. 13, 1942
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
1370 El Camino Real
Colma, San Mateo County, California
Plot: Rose Mound, Lot 65
   


Grave sites outside of California

Vivien Leigh
Scarlett O'Hara
Born: Nov. 5, 1913  Darjeeling, India
Died: Jul. 7, 1967 London
  
Burial: Ashes Scattered on the lake near her home
Tickerage Mill, Sussex, London, England
Cremation location: Golders Green Crematorium,
London, England
 


Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh
Author of Gone With the Wind
Nov. 8, 1900 - Aug. 16, 1949
Oakland Cemetery
248 Oakland Ave SE
Atlanta, Georgia
Her bio can be read here:   Margaret Mitchell
 



Ona Munson
Jun. 16, 1906 Portland, Oregon
Feb. 11, 1955 New York, New York
Ferncliff Cemetery
280-284 SECOR RD
Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York
Ferncliff Mausoleum, Unit 8, Tier Y, Column G, Niche 5
Cause of death: suicide.
 



Sidney Howard
Winner of best Screenplay Academy Award for GWTW
Tyringham Cemetery -Berkshire County
Tyringham, Massachusetts

Barbara O'Neil
Mrs. Ellen O'Hara
b. July 17, 1920 St. Louis Missouri 
d. September 3, 1980 Cos Cob, CT
El Carmelo Cemetery
Lighthouse Ave. and Asilomar Ave
Pacific Grove
Monterey County, California, USA
Plot: Section G Block 1 Lot 2 Site 2 (unmarked)

Trivia: Was only 28, just 3 years older than Vivien Leigh when she played Scarlett's mother, Ellen O'Hara.

In Memory

Fred Crane
Herman Frederick Crane
Brent Tarleton

March 22, 1918- August 21, 2008

From the Los Angeles Times: Fred Crane, 90; actor who wooed Scarlett in 'Gone With the Wind' He played Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film. Crane later became an announcer on L.A. classical music station KFAC. Fred Crane, a former longtime Los Angeles classical music radio announcer who achieved a slice of film immortality when he played one of the handsome Tarleton twins in the 1939 movie classic "Gone With the Wind," has died. He was 90. Crane, who had been hospitalized for a few weeks with complications related to diabetes, died of a blood clot in his lung Thursday in a hospital near Atlanta, said his wife, Terry. Crane was said to be the oldest surviving adult male cast member of "Gone With the Wind," producer David O. Selznick's epic production of the Margaret Mitchell novel starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. "I'm just a small shard in a grand mosaic," he told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in 2007. As Brent Tarleton, one of Scarlett O'Hara's young suitors, Crane spoke the opening lines in the film in a scene on the front porch of Tara with Leigh as Scarlett and George Reeves as his twin, Stuart. "What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett?" he says. "The war is gonna start any day now, so we would have left school anyhow." After Brent and Stuart express their excitement over the prospect of a fight with the Yankees, Scarlett replies: "Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream." When he was cast in "Gone With the Wind," the 20-year-old Crane hadn't read Mitchell's bestselling novel and wasn't even looking for a role in the film. "It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time," Crane later said. Born in New Orleans, Crane attended Tulane University and Loyola University in New Orleans and acted in local theater productions. In 1938, his mother decided that he should give Hollywood a try, and she gave him $50 and a one-way train ticket. After arriving in Hollywood, Crane contacted his cousin, former silent film actress Leatrice Joy, who took him along with her to the Selznick studio, where her daughter was auditioning for the role of Scarlett's sister Suellen. Evelyn Keyes wound up playing Suellen, but Crane's Southern accent caught the attention of the casting director, who called director George Cukor, and together they took Crane to meet Selznick. "I read the opening scene right then and there with Vivien Leigh, and I got the job," Crane told the Memphis Commercial Appeal in 1999. He was put under a 13-week contract for $50 a week, which was "more money than I thought there was in the world." Although he played Brent Tarleton in the film, the screen credits mistakenly list Crane as playing Stuart Tarleton, said Crane's son David. The film's first scene was remade three times, the first time after the Tarleton twins' dyed red hair was deemed too curly. The second time came when the film's Southern technical advisor objected to Scarlett's low-cut dress in the scene, saying that a girl her age would not be showing so much "bosom" that early in the day. Crane also appeared in four other scenes in the movie, including the smoking-room scene where Rhett Butler (Gable) lectures the men about the South's poor odds in fighting a war with the North. To which Crane's character responds, "What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman?" In making the film, Crane and Reeves became good friends, and Reeves served as Crane's best man at his first wedding in 1940. Years after Reeves, who gained fame as TV's "Superman," died in 1959 from a gunshot wound that was ruled a suicide, Crane said he believed "someone shot him to death." Ann Rutherford, who played Scarlett's sister Carreen, told The Times on Friday that Crane and Reeves "did not look exactly alike, but they were both gorgeous as young men. They were extremely attractive." Crane became a part-time announcer at Los Angeles classical radio station KFAC in 1946. He continued to act, mostly in television, until the mid-1960s, when he began working full time at KFAC. Crane, who also became program director of the AM side of the station in the '70s in addition to hosting his own shows, was among the station's Old Guard who were fired in 1987 by the station's new owners. He and the others later won an age-discrimination suit, said Crane's son. In 2000, Crane and his fifth wife, Terry, bought an antebellum mansion in Barnesville, a town south of Atlanta. After making renovations, they turned it into a bed-and-breakfast, complete with a "Gone With the Wind" museum with artifacts from the film. In 2007, primarily due to Crane's medical problems, the couple auctioned off the home and its memorabilia. In addition to his wife and his son David, he is survived by children Haydee Crane, Terry Lynn Smith, Shelley Bruehl and Jason Crane; eight grandchildren; and one great grandchild. No funeral will be held as per Mr. Cranes wishes. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made in his name to the Diabetes Association. For a wonderful tribute to Fred visit:  http://glasshousepresents.com/Fred_Crane.htm

Evelyn Keyes
Suellen O'Hara
November 20, 1916 - July 4, 2008

From The Times: Evelyn Keyes played Scarlett O’Hara’s sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind (1939) and went on to leading roles in such films as the comedy Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941) and The Jolson Story (1946). She made more than 40 films between the mid-1930s and mid-1950s. But her later achievements as an actress were overshadowed by that early role of the sister who loses her man to her more cunning sister, and also by Keyes’s own colourful and often turbulent personal life. She was married to the film directors John Huston and Charles Vidor and to the band leader Artie Shaw, and was romantically linked with Howard Hughes, David Niven, Kirk Douglas and the producer Mike Todd. Her second husband was Vidor, who was married to the actress Karen Morley when their relationship began. She proposed to Huston after just a few dates, they immediately chartered a plane to Las Vegas and married in the middle of the night. Huston revealed in his memoirs that by the following morning he was already thinking of an annulment. Returning from one film he brought home a chimpanzee, which created havoc in the house, prompting Keyes to give him an ultimatum that it was either the chimp or her. David Niven claimed Huston chose the chimp, though Keyes told the same story, but with Huston choosing her. The marriage had previously been put under strain when Huston returned from filming The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) with an orphan and announced he was to be their new son. Her life was well documented by the gossip columnists of the times and also in her autobiography Scarlett O’Hara’s Younger Sister (1977), which The New York Times described as “a sexual odyssey up and down the decades, in which Evelyn Keyes pauses only occasionally to mention a movie she has just started or just finished”. She was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1916 (though some sources give a later year). Her father died when she was an infant, and she grew up largely in Atlanta and worked as a dancer in nightclubs in her teens. Moving to Hollywood, she secured a contract with Cecil B. DeMille and made her film debut with a supporting role in The Buccaneer in 1938. That same year she married an English businessman, Barton Bainbridge, the first of four husbands, and began work on Gone with the Wind. By the time it came out she had appeared in several other films, including the western Union Pacific (1939). Gone with the Wind became the most successful film ever and propelled Keyes towards more important roles. As well as co-starring with Robert Montgomery in Here Comes Mr Jordan, she also starred in Before I Hang (1940), The Face Behind the Mask (1941), Vidor’s Ladies in Retirement (1941) and The Desperadoes (1943). But already her career seemed hopelessly intertwined with the complications of her personal life. Her first husband killed himself in 1940; she married Vidor in 1943, divorced in 1945, married Huston in 1946 and divorced in 1950 — the marriage had lasted longer than most people thought it would. She appeared in a wide range of films, from comedies to film noir, frequently changing her hair colour in an attempt to reinvent herself. She seemed well suited to the role of blonde femme fatale in Joseph Losey’s The Prowler (1951), but she noted that while Gone with the Wind brought her the chance of leading roles, she was always known as the actress who played Scarlett O’Hara’s sister. In 1955 she was back playing support to a more memorable female star in The Seven Year Itch. She was the wife whose absence facilitates Tom Ewell’s relationship with Marilyn Monroe. While living with Todd she suggested Niven for the lead role in his film of Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). She had a small role in the movie (as “The Flirt”), but Todd left her for Elizabeth Taylor almost as soon as the film was completed. She married Artie Shaw in 1957 and they lived in Spain. She was Shaw’s eighth wife, but the marriage lasted almost 30 years, though it too ended in divorce. Shaw died in 2004 and Keyes had been involved in protracted legal wrangling over his estate. In later years she made only occasional film and television apperances, including The Love Boat (1983), A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987) and several episodes of Murder, She Wrote (1985-93). As well as two volumes of memoirs, she also wrote a novel and a column for the Los Angeles Times. She pursued an active lifestyle and continued running well into her eighties.

For a listing of final resting places of people associated with GWTW visit:
www.findagrave.com