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Among the actresses (some of whom sought the role or submitted to screen tests): Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Paulette Goddard, Joan Bennett, Jean Arthur, Lucille Ball, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine, Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Loretta Young, Merle Oberon, Irene Dunne, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, Greer Garson, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Lana Turner, Ida Lupino and Susan Hayward.

British actress Vivien Leigh won the role after producer David O. Selznick saw her in the movies "Fire Over England" and "A Yank at Oxford."

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