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ONA MUNSON PERSONALLY OWNED BOOK SIGNED BY MAJOR CAST MEMBERS WITH SKETCH BY WALTER PLUNKETT
1939
A 1938 hardcover edition of GWTW personally owned and used by Ona Munson, the actress who portrayed the madame with a heart, Belle Watling. Munson underlined most references to Belle throughout the book using a red pencil and she had her colleagues sign the flyleaf in the same red pencil including Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and director Victor Fleming. (Extra hand-drawn lines are evident under the last signee as Munson likely planned to have other cast members autograph her book.) Additionally, costume designer Walter Plunkett signed his name in orange pencil and added the notation Belle's next to a whimsical watercolor sketch he drew of a busty torso wearing a bustier with bells attached to it. Sadly, Ms. Munson felt her role as the tainted Belle Watling typecast her, thus ruining her Hollywood career. She tragically made mention of this fact in her suicide note sixteen years later, when she died at the age of forty-nine.
1939
A 1938 hardcover edition of GWTW personally owned and used by Ona Munson, the actress who portrayed the madame with a heart, Belle Watling. Munson underlined most references to Belle throughout the book using a red pencil and she had her colleagues sign the flyleaf in the same red pencil including Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and director Victor Fleming. (Extra hand-drawn lines are evident under the last signee as Munson likely planned to have other cast members autograph her book.) Additionally, costume designer Walter Plunkett signed his name in orange pencil and added the notation Belle's next to a whimsical watercolor sketch he drew of a busty torso wearing a bustier with bells attached to it. Sadly, Ms. Munson felt her role as the tainted Belle Watling typecast her, thus ruining her Hollywood career. She tragically made mention of this fact in her suicide note sixteen years later, when she died at the age of forty-nine.