When Clark Gable arrived on the set of “Gone With The Wind” in 1938, he was already one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Lennie Bluett was an 18-year-old extra who wouldn’t even receive screen credit. But the megastar and the unknown fledgling actor were able to work together to defeat segregation on the lot of the biggest film of that era.
This little-known incident reveals how segregation extended even to Hollywood in the 1930s—and how a determined young Black man put his career on the line to force change.
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