While costumes in films are essential in helping to define a character, it is not often that a costume is a direct part of the story or plot. However, this green bonnet plays an important role in a scene from ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐
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In both the film and the novel, it is the piece of clothing that Rhett Butler uses to tempt Scarlett OโHara out of mourning far earlier than appropriate. ย
Mitchell writes of the bonnet: ย ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐
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, ๐๐๐
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, ๐๐๐๐๐๐
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Designer Walter Plunkett re-created the hat for the 1939 production of ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐
, where Vivien Leigh wore it as Scarlett OโHara. ย
The piece would be used again in a promotional image for the 1941 Go West Young Lady, worn by Penny Singleton as Belinda Pendergast.
In 1942 it was worn without the ribbons on Helen Parrish as Ellen Sanford in the film In Old California.
See more reused costumes from Gone with the Wind at bit.ly/ReusedGWTW