简介：ThenationwidesearchforanactresstoplayScarlettO'HarainGoneWiththeWindformedthebasisofClaireBoothLuce'ssatiricalBroadwaycomedyKisstheBoysGoodbye.Bythetimethefilmversioncameoutin1941,GonewiththeWindwasyesterday'snews,butthepicturestillmanagetoelicitloudlaughterfrommoviegoersbombardedbybadnewsfromEurope.WhenBroadwayproducerBertFusher(JeromeCowan)decidestoproducealavishmusicalversionofabest-sellingcivilwarnovel,hedispatchesdirectorLloydLloyd(DonAmeche)andcomposer~censored~Rayburn(OscarLevant)totheDeepSouth,insearchofagenuineSouthern-belleleadinglady.LloydandRayburnendupontheGeorgiaplantationofTomRumson(RaymondWalburn),wheretheyareforcedtositthroughanimpromptuauditionbyRumson'snieceCindyLouBethany(MaryMartin).Lloydcan'tstandthegirl,butRayburnisenchantedbyher-neversuspectingthatCindyLouisaphony,whopriortothismeetinghadneversteppedbelowtheMason-Dixonline.Eventually,LloydandCindyLoufallinloveandtheshowgoeson.ManyofplaywrightLuce'smorepointedbarbshavebeenbluntedbytheHollywoodcensors,withthemorepungentgagsreplacedbylavishmusicalnumbers.Still,KisstheBoysGoodbyeisalotoffun,especiallywheneverthemagnificentElizabethPatterson(castasMaryMartin'sunreconstructed-southerneraunt)takescenterstage.…