Hollywood Ties
Susan Myrick, Nancy Bryan's granddaughter, writes in her diary, January 17, 1939-
“Today I met Clark Gable. He would not have been worth a whole paragraph by himself before today because I have never liked him. But I did like him when I met him. He is dynamic, quiet, polite, human and fairly bursting with IT. … “How’m I doin’? Falling for the movie idol of a billion femmes. George’s secretary, a darling gal named Dorothy Dawson, called me and said would I come in please. Mr. Gable was in Mr. Cukor’s office. I powdered my face, fixed my lipstick and went in. There sat the God on the sofa beside Cukor and before him stood Lambert, of wardrobe, Plunkett of costume design and two other men with note books. Clark had a dozen sketches before him. He rose as I came into the room – so did George – and G said ‘Miss Myrick this is Mr. Gable.’ I murmured how do you do but he stepped forward, offered his hand, turning on the full force of smile and dimple and said ‘I am so glad to meet you, Miss Myrick.’”
Susan Myrick with Clark Gable on the set during the filming. Sometime at the beginning of February he’ll stop calling her Ms. Myrick and start calling her Sue.
*Susan Myrick of Gone With The Wind: An Autobiographical Biography, by Susan Lindsley
Susan Myrick
(1893-1978)
Susan's mother,
Thulia K. Whitehurst
(1860-1932)
Susan's grandparents,
Nancy Bryan (1834-1904) Mayberry Whitehurst (1826-1878)
Bio; Author, Newspaper Columnist. As producer David O. Selznick began his work on the movie "Gone With The Wind," its author Margaret Mitchell made only one request. She recommended Susan Myrick to be the film's technical advisor. Myrick, known as "The Emily Post of the South," was not only the dialect coach for all the actors (both black and white), she was also in charge of seeing that the costumes and customs were consistent with Southern tradition. (A whole scene was reshot when Myrick told Selznick that "a young lady would never have worn that dress showing her bosom at that time of day.") Myrick wrote the book "White Columns in Hollywood: Reports from the GWTW Sets." For her work with the Macon Telegraph, she was inducted into the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1984.