Gone with the Wednesday: Cut Out of The Barbecue

There are several stories that have floated around over the years of Clark Gable being at the outdoor barbecue scene set in Busch Gardens in Pasadena. Well, in the final film Clark isn’t in any of the outdoor barbecue scenes. Inside, yes, gazing up the stairs at future wives and  having things thrown at him. But not outside. So what is he doing there, in full costume?

Filming a scene that ending up on the cutting room floor, that’s what. There was a scene shot for the film, called “A Young Man Talks to Rhett,” in which Rhett converses with a heavily-whiskered man (listed in studio records as being played by someone by the name of S. Jackson), a close distance from where Scarlett sits perched on her bench and surrounded by buzzing beaus.

Unfortunately for us all, this cut scene is lost forever (didn’t they know one day they would need things like that for special features on special edition Blu Ray sets??!)  but this still exists:

And also this behind the scenes shot of Clark and Mr. Jackson waiting for their scene (director Victor Fleming behind them):

This Jackson fellow probably was all excited to get a chance to work with Clark and on GWTW and the poor thing ended up on the cutting room floor! Oh well, the movie did end up rather long, even without this scene, after all!