During Esther's screen test, she is dressed in an antebellum costume and surrounded by other actors in Civil War uniforms. Producer David O. Selznick had recently bought the rights to adapt Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind and was undergoing a highly publicized national search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. In a February 1973 article in The Atlantic, Gavin Lambert wrote that Selznick actually offered the role to Janet Gaynor, but she refused it because she had decided to retire from acting. Indeed, Gaynor made only two more movies after the release of A Star Is Born (Quattro in paradiso (1938) and Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)) and then did not appear onscreen again until 1953, 15 years later.
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