Short film
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
2020 · 18 min
A quiet archival curiosity, watching old nitrate tests flicker by with scholarly commentary, more museum exhibit than movie.
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Caroline Yeager, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
- Tagline
- Screen tests on 35mm nitrate; some black and white, some Technicolor, with sound or silent— and over 300 prints in the collection
- Overview
- Screen tests shot mid January 1939 in Technicolor to assess hairstyles, makeup, and costumes for final and semi-final cast members. Stars featured in the final film are Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, and Evelyn Keyes; the four who were not cast include Margaret Tallichet, Georgiana Young, Leatrice Joy Gilbert and Edythe Marrener (later known as Susan Hayward). Commentary and film prints courtesy of the George Eastman Museum.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Art, identity, ambition, memory
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Caroline Yeager, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
