But what happened to the residents of Tara in the decades after Scarlett made that curtain dress? A British stage actress, Leigh made her film debut only four years before Gone With the Wind.

And Erivo fittingly paid homage to Hattie McDaniel, the first Black woman to win an Oscar (for her role in Gone With the Wind) as she stepped ... a nod to green, to old Hollywood," Erivo said ...