Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh won the role of Scarlett O'Hara over hundreds of actresses, including heavyweights like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, and Paulette Goddard.

During filming, Leigh worked 16 hours a day, six days a week, for 125 days. To deal with the stress, Leigh chain-smoked, burning through four packs of cigarettes a day.

Leigh was paid $25,000 for "Gone With The Wind”. But subsequently, Leigh took home the trophy for Best Actress in 1939. In 1952, she won another Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in “A Streetcar Named Desire”.