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Posted by Faye Bell on June 28, 2001 at 23:06:59:
As we venture back into our TRUE or FALSE quiz, see how you do on these questions:
11. David Selznick bought the screen rights to GWTW before reading the book.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
12. None of the scenes in GWTW were filmed in the South.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
13. Lucille Ball tested for the role of Scarlett, though she was never a top contender.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
14. Y. Frank Freeman, head of Paramount Pictures, was a transplanted Atlantan who was very much taken with the idea of filming GWTW.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
15. Virtually penniless, Selznick arrived in Hollywood to build his fortune at about the same time that Margaret Mitchell began writing GWTW.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
16. In the early stages of casting, it appeared that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn would play Scarlett and Rhett -- and Davis was pleased.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
17. Among the contenders for Scrlett's role were Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, and Carole Lombard.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
18. Margaret Mitchell made few public comments on the casting of GWTW, but she privately favored Norma Shearer as Scarlett.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
19. No part of the Tara set is on public display.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
20. Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900 and died in an accident before she was 49.
[ ] TRUE [ ] FALSE
Answers to follow tomorrow evening.