[NHMLA] – Scarlett O’Hara’s famous “barbecue dress” from “Gone with the Wind” is on public view for the first time at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

The dress is on display in the museum’s Becoming Los Angeles exhibit for a six-month run to coincide with the 75th anniversary of film’s release.

This newly conserved green and white dress worn by Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett O’Hara) to the barbeque Twelve Oaks Plantation in “Gone With the Wind” will be featured in a specially-made costume case near the exhibition’s other Hollywood treasures.

The artifact was donated by Daniel Selznick, son of GWTW producer David O. Selznick, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which in turn donated it to the Natural History Museum’s vast collection of Hollywood costumes in 2004.

The signature costume appears onscreen for 30 important minutes of the Civil War romance. Scarlett is shown being strapped into her corset to fit into the dress before the barbecue party begins, and wears the gown throughout the momentous party where she loses Ashley Wilkes, meets Rhett Butler, and the beginning of the fateful war is announced, all in single afternoon.

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