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Our second Margaret Sullavan Acteurist Oeuvre-view entry delivers emotional whiplash as we move from King Vidor's Civil War drama\xa0So Red the Rose\xa0(1935), in which Sullavan plays a southern belle who's forced to mature when the world she knows collapses around her ears, to William Wyler's comedy\xa0The Good Fairy\xa0(1935), with a screenplay by Preston Sturges, in which she plays a naive orphan who causes complications when she stumbles on an opportunity to do a good deed. We discuss the relationship of\xa0So Red the Rose\xa0to the Southern Agrarian movement, debate how progressive the film is attempting to be, and make the inevitable comparisons to\xa0Gone With the Wind\xa0and Wyler's\xa0Jezebel. Then we analyze\xa0The Good Fairy as a Preston Sturges comedy, only lacking an American setting to be fully recognizable.\xa0\xa0

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