In their edited volume Lasting Screen Stars, Lucy Bolton and Julie Lobalzo Wright interrogate one of “the most inescapable realities of the realm of stardom,” the fact that “some stars endure across the decades, enjoying lengthy and high-profile careers, while others fade away, either into obscurity or crystallized at a specific moment in time” (2016, 1). Vivien Leigh is a fitting case study for interrogating this kind of phenomenon. She is a star who has endured, in large part because her star image has remained anchored to one specific character/film. Leigh’s casting as Scarlett O’Hara in ...