Saucy Scarlett loved her smokes
A peek into the making of 1939's Gone With the Wind shows a hoop-skirted Vivien Leigh smoking cigarettes and co-star Leslie Howard wearing sunglasses. The unlikely images -- shot during a break from the filming of the barbeque scene at Twelve Oaks early in the movie -- turned up on home movies recently discovered at Brucemore mansion, now a museum. They show Clark Gable sitting in his trailer dressed as Rhett Butler and Leigh, as the saucy heroine Scarlett O'Hara, puffing on a cigarette. The footage will be made into a short film and shown at a visitors centre due to open in the fall.