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TIL Southerners opposed the casting of Englishwoman Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. In anticipation of the backlash, producer David O. Selznick wrote a letter to Ed Sullivan, then an entertainment journalist, with a list of bullet points defending Leigh's casting.

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