Along with racism, the unequal pay in Gone with the Wind is a stab in the eye, too

[UTUSN]

The racism of not being allowed to the Atlanta premiere, Butterfly McQUEEN and Hattie McDANIEL performing racist stereotypes against their will, and McDANIEL forced to sit in segregation at the back at the Academy Awards is obvious. Add Vivien LEIGH's being paid $25K vs Clark GABLE's $100K+ for her working twice the days, besides that she and McDANIEL won Oscars and he didn't. In today's dollars hers was $450K and his almost $2 million. In another link somewhere Leslie HOWARD also got much more than LEIGH, who was *perfect* and irreplaceable.

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http://ninjajournalist.com/entertainment/gone-with-the-wind-facts/

The Producers Of ‘Gone With The Wind’ Hid These Secrets
.... Women Worked More But Got Paid Less

While the film faced a lot of criticism regarding racial equality, no one ever really touched upon gender equality which was another very visible issue when it came to the making of the film. A prime example of that was the fact that Vivien Leigh worked on the film for a total of 125 days and received $25,000 pay, but Clark Gable worked almost half the amount of days as Leigh but made well over four times the amount of her. This doesn’t seem fair or in any way equal to us.

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[still_one]

1. Yup. That is part of our history. Still is occurring

[Fla Dem]

8. Yes it is. Female actors still have to fight for pay parity in Hollywood. I have to laugh at the

new Clint Eastwood movie; "the Mule". Can you imagine an 88 year old female actor being given a starring role in a movie?

[UTUSN]

10. Excellent elaboration.

[Coventina]

2. I hated that book so much, I've never bothered with the movie.

I cannot fathom why it was ever popular in either form.

Ugh.

[Iggo]

6. I hated the movie so much, I never bothered with the book.

"Yeah, but it's four hours long!"

[Liberty Belle]

3. True but GWTW was hardly alone in this; it was the industry standard in Hollywood

and business in general back in 1939 when this movie was made. This was only 19 years after women won the right to vote, and long before any sort of equal pay laws.

[UTUSN]

5. Yea to all that but its being the top of its heap drives the point home for our perspective, no?

[hlthe2b]

4. Yet the fact that Hattie McDaniel is scourned by those ashamed of her roles--something that

was front and center in Halle Barry's (and others) acceptance speeches that lauded so many that "came before" but so obviously ignored the contributions of McDaniel--the first Black actor to win an Oscar.

How badly she has been treated goes on today.. Even her Oscar statue remains missing, as it has for decades.

She was a trailblazer and took the roles available to her and made them her own. It isn't just a legacy of pay inequity that remains and I'd doubt if she were alive today that she'd appreciate THAT being the ONLY wrong to be acknowledged. She deserved and deserves so much better.

https://www.vibe.com/2018/03/hattie-mcdaniel-oscar-history

[UTUSN]

7. Rita MORENO said she only got offered a role of bordello madam after her Oscar

(I've taken up attendance at YouTube University lately!1 )

After some six years of not getting roles she auditioned and was told what they wanted and she turned it down. The British director started to "explain," by saying, "You don't understand..." And she said, "No, sir, YOU don't understand."