The character of Scarlett O’Hara first appeared in 1936, a spoilt headstrong Southern Belle who has to use all her womanly wiles to survive the American Civil War. She was the creation of author Margaret Mitchell, in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone with the Wind. The 1939 screen adaptation starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable remains the highest grossing film of all time, and now 70 years on, a new musical stage production is being premiered in London. Jenni is joined by the new show’s writer Margaret Martin, and the film producer Tanya Seghatchian, to discuss why the husband-stealing, slave-owning Scarlett still has such iconic status.
Gone with the Wind -The Musical opens tonight (Tuesday 22nd April) at the New London Theatre
