Hollywood itself began with a man named D.W. Griffith. He created a Hollywood masterpiece in 1915 with Hollywood's first motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation." This movie completely stunned audiences around the world and assisted in created a completely new world: The world of Motion Pictures. "The Birth of Nation," as described in Merchant of Dreams stated that the film helped to establish the Motion Pictures Industry as an art form for the world. (Higham, "Merchant of Dreams," 12) With the emergence of Motion Pictures, five major studios:

The MGM Story surely speaks for millions around the world, when it is said that Charlie Chaplin was the preeminent star of all of the other silent film stars. Owing to the first time, he appeared on screen in 1914. The movie was "Kid Auto Races at Venice" and it was the baggy pants, enormous shoes, bowler hat, and carrying a bamboo cane that he originated his world famous "The Tramp." Yet, there can be an exception to Charlie Chaplin being alone as the greatest film star of all time. That exception is as the Merchant of Dreams explains, the divine Greta Garbo. She is most likely better known in "history" as the Queen of Sheba or Helen of Troy. (Higham, "Merchant of Dreams," 29) Unquestionably, the fame of Garbo, whose every movement is instinct with beauty, whose name evokes mystery and whose image evokes desire, was the most beautiful movie star in all of history.

Nonetheless there were two movies, both produced by MGM that completely took over Hollywood. It was "Gone with the Wind" and "Wizard of Oz" that above all other movies made in the "Golden Age" would become a timeless classic. "Gone with the Wind," though had more nationwide publicity than the other movies. David Selznick, the most powerful Hollywood producer in the "Golden Age," launched a nationwide talent search for the one who would play Scarlet O'Hara. This involved testing 1,400 unknowns and half of the actresses in Hollywood. Selznick decided it was best that the public choose the two movie stars that they wanted to play Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara. The public unanimously voted "King of Hollywood" Clark Gable as their Rhett Butler and actress Norma Shearer as their Scarlet O'Hara. However, Norma Shearer declined to play the role and happily in January 1939, British actress Vivien Leigh won the role of the tenacious Scarlet O'Hara. It is not possible to think of any!

In The MGM Story by John Douglas, Hollywood Hoopla by Robert Sennet, Merchant of Dreams by Charles Higham, and When the Stars went to War by Roy Hopes all would agree that in the end, Hollywood of the "Golden Age" in black and white or Technicolor, with "more stars than there are in heaven," was destroyed by its own success. The industry wanted the world to resemble a Hollywood movie, the fairy tale, and so inevitably, everyone else did. Nevertheless, this never was true and soon enough, the world figured that out too.

other two actors that could of have made "Gone With the Wind" the ultimate classic that it is today. Coincidentally, feisty actress Bette Davis wanted the role of Scarlet O'Hara, but since Davis was under the contract with Warner Brothers and "Gone with the Wind" was an MGM film, she lost her chance. Being that Bette Davis was not going to take the loss of the role so easily. She made a similar Southern oriented film with Warner Brothers entitled "Jezebel" and to add insult to MGM. She won the Oscar for best actress in her role as Jezebel in 1938, a year before MGM release "Gone with the Wind" in 1939.

4) Lawton, Richard. A World of Movies. New York: Bonanza Books, 1974.

Due to the change in Hollywood and silent films being cut, many great silent stars did not last long with the age of "Talkies." A lot of them disappeared, but one, which the book Merchant of Dreams accounts that silent goddess Greta Garbo, was thought to not be able to pass the microphone test, which had ended other Silent Hollywood's greats careers. In Garbo's first talkie film "Anna Christie", not even if the sphinx itself had spoken it could have little mo

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