- Henry Fonda, Jezebel, 1938. There were several inter-office memos about trying to obtain the former school-teacher previously known as Jeffrey Lind, to co-star with the titular Bette Davis in what became known as the black-and-white Gone with the Wind. He lost Ashley Wilkes in that, too. “I wasn’t ready.” Not so. ‘Twasn’t Lynn but his Broadway producers who refused to release him to play Pres opposite Bette Davis for director William Wyler. Jezebel was released on my literal birthday – March 26, 1938. Lynn won 70 other screen roles until retiring in 1970 to become an real estate agent.
- Leslie Howard, Gone with the Wind, 1938.
- Jack Carson, The Hard Way, 1942. Lynn and John Garfield were early notions for the rubbishy song ’n’ prance vaudevillians finding a brighter talent to exploit to the full. Except, the girls’s sister proves a tougher Stage Momma – based, in fact, on Ginger Rogers’ formidable mother, Lela E Rogers.
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