Vivien Leigh the burning of the Atlanta Depot scene was being filmed and stage-managed an encounter, where he introduced Leigh, derisively addressing his younger brother, "Hey, genius, meet your Scarlett O'Hara." The following day, Leigh read a scene for Selznick, who organized a screen test with director George Cukor and wrote to his wife, "She's the Scarlett dark horse and looks damn good. Not for anyone's ear but your own: it's narrowed down to Paulette Goddard, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett and Vivien Leigh". The director, George Cukor, concurred and praised Leigh's "incredible wildness". She secured the role of Scarlett soon after. Filming
Mickey Kuhn the role of Beau Wilkes (Ashley and Melanie's son) in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). He later went on to appear in "Juarez" (1939) opposite Bette Davis, as the adoptive son of John Wayne in "Red River", and in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), in which he was reunited with Vivien Leigh a dozen years after they first worked together in "Gone with the Wind". In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Kuhn played a sailor who directs Blanche to the correct streetcar which will take her to her sister's neighborhood at the beginning of the film. He is the only actor