Scarlett O’Hara

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Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, wearing a wide, floral-patterned gown with dark ribbons, seated on brick steps in a dramatic black-and-white scene.

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, wearing a wide, floral-patterned gown with dark ribbons, seated on brick steps in a dramatic black-and-white scene. — Gone with the Wind Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Scarlett O’Hara

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Scarlett O’Hara, fictional character, the heroine of Gone with the Wind (1936), Margaret Mitchell’s romantic novel about the American Civil War.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.