Desc: So Red the Rose: Directed by King Vidor. With Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Janet Beecher. "So Red the Rose" is King Vidor's quietly-affecting Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's darkest days she is sustained by her love for a distant cousin, a Confederate officer played by Randolph Scott.