Tag Archives: Scarlett O’hara

Scarlett O’Hara’s Dresses in Ruin

As a long time fan of Gone With the Wind, I was saddened this week when The Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin announced that poor Scarlett Hara’s dresses were in ruin. Apparently, costumes produced for stage productions aren’t constructed to last, and the dresses, which are actually exact replicas of […]

Vivien Leigh or Greta Garbo: Who’s the Best Screen Anna Karenina?

The Internet Movie Database includes 24 adaptations of Anna Karenina, the very long novel Leo Tolstoi wrote between 1873 and 1877. The Florida Grand Opera just closed its first season in Miami’s new opera house with the première of David Carlson’s third opera, with a libretto by Colin Graham. Along with its beautiful and dramatic […]