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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAlong with racism, the unequal pay in Gone with the Wind is a stab in the eye, too
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/
.... 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 doesnt seem fair or in any way equal to us.
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still_one
(92,190 posts)Fla Dem
(23,666 posts)new Clint Eastwood movie; "the Mule". Can you imagine an 88 year old female actor being given a starring role in a movie?
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)Coventina
(27,118 posts)I cannot fathom why it was ever popular in either form.
Ugh.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)"Yeah, but it's four hours long!"
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)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
(70,691 posts)hlthe2b
(102,263 posts)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
(70,691 posts)(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."
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