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"Gone with the Wind" was pulled from the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee on August 11, 2017 af [...]
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After Scarlett returns to a vandalized Tara, digs up a radish in the garden, then retches and gives [...]
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As Vivien Leigh could not dance, she is doubled in all non close-up shots by Sally De Marco.
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Prologue: "There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South...Here in this prett [...]
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The entr'acte music is played entirely on a Novachord, the first use of an electronic synthesizer in [...]
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David O. Selznick bought the rights to the best-selling novel for $50,000. Louis B. Mayer, Selznick' [...]
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As of now, this is the longest movie made with over 100,000 votes on IMDb.
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Sidney Howard got the sole script writing credit for 'Gone With the Wind' despite others such as Jo [...]
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Leslie Howard was a reluctant addition to the cast saying that Ashley Wilkes was too weak a characte [...]
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So many tests were made for the part of Scarlett that Selznick ended up with some 24 hours of film.
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It is the first film to be nominated for more than 10 Academy Awards, as it earned 13 nominations in [...]
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The Old Mill at T.R. Pugh Memorial Park in North Little Rock, Arkansas, is featured in the opening s [...]
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Vivien Leigh wasn't happy with Victor Fleming's brusque style after the careful nurturing she had en [...]
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For the scene in which Scarlett escapes the burning of the Atlanta Depot, a horse was needed to play [...]
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The use of the word "damn" in the film's final scene netted Selznick International a $5,000 fine fro [...]
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At one point, five film units were shooting scenes. Directors involved were Sam Wood, Sidney Frankli [...]
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The Tara plantation of the novel and its adaptations is located five miles (8 km) from Jonesboro in [...]
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Olivia de Havilland was a contract player at Warner Bros. when MGM made the call to her for the part [...]
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At nearly four hours long, this is the longest running of all motion pictures to win the prestigious [...]
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Margaret Mitchell's depictions of black characters are considered controversial. Her own views on Af [...]
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Clark Gable made it quite clear that he would not take this role if Katharine Hepburn was in the fil [...]
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Pictured on one of four 25¢ US commemorative postage stamps issued 23 March 1990 honoring classic [...]
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Both of Margaret Mitchell's grandfathers were Confederate veterans. Paternal grandfather Russell Cra [...]
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David O. Selznick always wanted Leslie Howard to play Ashley. He was so certain Howard was right for [...]
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Charles Hamilton's death certificate is signed Wade Hampton, a real-life Confederate general. In the [...]
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Sidney Howard's screenwriting Oscar was the Academy's first posthumous award. Howard died in an acci [...]
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In 1939 the Hollywood Production Code dictated what could and could not be shown or said on screen, [...]
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There is an unresolved subplot in the novel. Brothel madam Belle Watling has a son whose existence i [...]
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Just returned from the war, Ashley Wilkes is back at Tara helping mend fences by splitting rails. In [...]
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Director Victor Fleming did not attend the world premiere of Via col vento (1939) in Atlanta, Georgi [...]
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All four principal characters appear together in the same scene only once, after the raid on Shantyt [...]
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Mickey Kuhn, who played Beau Wilkes, kept blowing a scene by calling Clark Gable "Clark" instead of [...]
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At 2:47:29 in Rhett bends over to pick up 1 stem of flowers but at 2:47:31 as he stands up there are [...]
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Vincent Price, Jeffrey Lynn, Dennis Morgan, Douglass Montgomery, Wayne Morris, and Melvyn Douglas te [...]
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Officially, the film won eight competitive Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporti [...]
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The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.
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The scene where Scarlett makes a dress out of a curtain later was later spoofed on The Carol Burnett [...]
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The novel has been translated into over 70 languages and has a large international readership.
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The poem is a quote from an Ernest Dowson poem "Cynara! Gone with the Wind! " This is where the titl [...]
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Cinematographer Lee Garmes was fired a month into production because his footage was deemed to be to [...]
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Besides English-language sequels and derivative works of "Gone with the Wind", there are foreign-lan [...]
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While directing the scene where Prissy says, "Oh Miss Scarlett! I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' [...]
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Came first in the UK's Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sol [...]
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Rhett tells Scarlet she's only been "married to a boy and an old man. Why not try a man of the right [...]
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One of the first promising candidates for the role of Scarlett was Adele Longmire, who was 17 at the [...]
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One month after the book was published, David O. Selznick purchased the movie rights from Margaret M [...]
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Ranks fourth (as of 2017) in the Academy Award most nominated films list with 13 nominations.
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the Top 100 America's Greatest Love Story [...]
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Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.
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The first film to credit a Production Designer, mainly to highlight the major contribution from Will [...]
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Neither Clark Gable nor Leslie Howard wanted to be in the film. Howard didn't even bother to read th [...]
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Hattie McDaniel was cast as Mammy after Louise Beavers, Etta McDaniel, Ruby Dandridge, and Hattie No [...]
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Gerald, Scarlet's father, who came from Ireland to Georgia named his land after Tara in Ireland. The [...]
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Margaret Mitchell wrote her novel between 1926 and 1929. In her early drafts, the main character was [...]
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Scarlett's son, Wade Hampton Hamilton, was in an early draft of the script, but was cut from the sto [...]
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If box-office receipts were adjusted for inflation, it would be the top-grossing movie of all time; [...]
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One of the reasons that Clark Gable hesitated to do the film was his participation in a previous cos [...]
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The Tara home used in the film was created by art director Lyle R. Wheeler. Following the end of the [...]
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Mickey Kuhn, who played Vivien Leigh's nephew Beau Wilkes, also played the young sailor who helps he [...]
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"Tara" is the name of a sacred hill in east-central Ireland. Since neolithic times it had been the f [...]
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The final film of Peaches Jackson.
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Until her death on July 26, 2020 at 104, Olivia de Havilland was the lone survivor of the four princ [...]
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Of all the actresses considered for the role, Louise Platt, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Watkins, Adele [...]
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The horse that Thomas Mitchell rode was Silver of The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939). The horse's re [...]
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The movie's line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." was voted as the #1 movie quote by the Ame [...]
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Vivien Leigh worked for 125 days and received about $25,000. Clark Gable worked for 71 days and rece [...]
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The fact that Hattie McDaniel would be unable to attend the premiere in racially segregated Atlanta [...]
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Among lines cut out by the censor are Rhett Butler's: "I've never held fidelity to be a virtue" and [...]
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Writer Sidney Howard was paid $2,000 a week to do the screenplay. Many other writers contributed to [...]
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Despite the lack of a sequel novel at the time, David O. Selznick and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were alway [...]
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The 13th Article of Amendment to the US Constitution (1865) ended slavery in the USA, but had minima [...]
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The record of $1.5 million paid by Michael Jackson to acquire David O. Selznick's "Gone with the Win [...]
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When Gary Cooper turned down the role of Rhett Butler, he was passionately against it. He is quoted [...]
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The title comes from a Dowson transaltion of an Ancient Greek poem: "Dowson had been educated in Fra [...]
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The opening scenes of the film were originally filmed at the beginning of production, but reshot nea [...]
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The character of Rhett Butler was partially inspired by Margaret Mitchell's husband nicknamed "Red", [...]
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Hattie McDaniel met with David O. Selznick in full costume in a successful effort to beat her main r [...]
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All seven of Hollywood's then-existing Technicolor cameras were used to film the burning of the Atla [...]
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Sidney Howard agreed to write the screenplay, but from his home in Massachusetts, 3000 miles away fr [...]
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Clark Gable disliked this, his most famous film, which he regarded as "a woman's picture."
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The credits read "Brent Tarleton.....George Reeves, Stuart Tarleton.....Fred Crane," but that's back [...]
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At her first wedding, Scarlett is comforted by Charles, who assures her that the war will be over in [...]
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Despite the popularity of the novel, Margaret Mitchell was not interested in producing a sequel. The [...]
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Clark Gable was so distressed over the requirement that he cry on film (when Melanie is comforting R [...]
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The ethnic origin of Frank Kennedy, Scarlett's second husband, is uncertain. The name Kennedy is Gae [...]
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The first Best Picture Oscar winner to also win any of these three other categories: Best Supporting [...]
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Production began with Robert Gleckler playing Jonas Wilkerson. After a month of filming, Gleckler di [...]
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The reminiscent wounded soldier in the makeshift Atlanta hospital talking to nurses Scarlett and Mel [...]
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At 2:59:02 in Hattie McDaniel (Mammy) looks right at the camera for a split second.
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During the barbecue at Twelve Oaks, the men talked in the stair hall about the coming of war with th [...]
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When Scarlett searches for Dr. Meade, making her way among 1,600 suffering and dying Confederate sol [...]
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After Big Sam saves Scarlett he drives her home. The next scene you only see Scarlett in the buggy.
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Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O'Hara} and Barbara O'Neil (Ellen O'Hara) also played husband-and-wife in an [...]
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The New York City premiere at the Capitol Theatre on 19 December 1939 was telecast on NBC's experime [...]
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Half a million feet of film were shot. This was all edited down to 20,000 feet.
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David O. Selznick asked Alfred Hitchcock for help with the scene in which the women wait for the men [...]
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Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to be nominated for - and win - an Academy Award.
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In 1994 Judy Lewis went public with the information that she was indeed the "love child" of Clark Ga [...]
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This was originally the longest film to be preserved at the National Film Registry until Flash Gordo [...]
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Donna L. Ellithorpe, a student from the L. Jeffrey Selznick of Film Preservation, worked with the Te [...]
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In a March 1939 newspaper article, David O. Selznick was reported to be considering producing this f [...]
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At 2 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds, Vivien Leigh's performance in this movie is the longest to ev [...]
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Michael Jackson reportedly paid over $1,500,000 in 1999 to purchase David O. Selznick's Best Picture [...]
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The final shooting script dated 24 January 1939 had a price tag of $25,000 by late 1939.
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Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel co-starred together in the 1935 film China Seas, before co-starring [...]
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The first film to earn two Best Supporting Actress nominations. Hattie McDaniel won for her performa [...]
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Sidney Howard presented a first draft of the script in February 1937. It was a script for a five and [...]
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Vivien Leigh famously tightened her corset to 18". Many actresses who attempted this in later films, [...]
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Tallulah Bankhead reportedly turned down the role of Belle Watling.
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Female costumes were made complete with petticoats, although they wouldn't have been missed had they [...]
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This is the first of two films in which Vivien Leigh won the Academy Award for Best Actress for play [...]
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In 1974, NBC paid MGM $5 million dollars for the right to show the movie once on TV. It was shown in [...]
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Zasu Pitts was considered for the role of Aunt Pittypat.
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The search for Scarlett was born out of necessity as before he could make a deal with MGM for the lo [...]
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In the barbecue scene, the shot of Scarlett climbing out of her carriage and entering the Twelve Oak [...]
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The Tara plantation façade was located at the NW corner of the Forty Acres backlot in Culver City [...]
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Thomas Mitchell and [link=Barbara O'Neil, Scarlett's parents, were both born in July (of different y [...]
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The premiere was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939. It was reportedly the first time th [...]
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One reason for the high volume of film shot for this production is that the new Technicolor cameras [...]
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Stephanie Toler's debut.
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To portray Melanie, Olivia de Havilland spent most of the film in drab, dowdy costumes. She wore two [...]
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Ann Rutherford got a call at 3:00 am to be on location to pick cotton for a scene. She was licking t [...]
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Clark Gable's and Leslie Howard's characters do not have a complete dialogue between them throughout [...]
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Of all the many actresses who tested for the part of Scarlett, only Paulette Goddard and Vivien Leig [...]
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Producer David O. Selznick and production designer William Cameron Menzies also directed parts of th [...]
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Unlike the innocent character of Melanie Hamilton, Olivia de Havilland was known to have a wicked se [...]
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The Margaret Mitchell estate has maintained rights to "Gone with the Wind" and related works since t [...]
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The 222-minute running time excludes the Overture Music (played before the credits), the Entr'acte M [...]
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Actress Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American woman to win an Oscar for Gone with the Wind, on [...]
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The first film shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) because it was Ted Turner's favorite movie.
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When Rhett bids $150 to dance with Scarlett, the crowd's cheer is the same one heard when Dr. Meade [...]
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"Do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of" is embrazoned on the sundial during the [...]
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Although he played Brent Tarleton in the film, the screen credits mistakenly list Fred Crane as play [...]
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Much of the eyewitness information used in writing the novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936) derived fro [...]
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In 2004 the film was completely restored from the original three Technicolor negatives. This time di [...]
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The first scene to be shot was the burning of the Atlanta Depot, filmed on 10 December 1938. If ther [...]
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Keying Melanie's pregnancy to outer events, puts its length at twenty-one months. Informed of the di [...]
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Rhett was not allowed to say, on film, "Maybe you'll have a miscarriage" right before Scarlett falls [...]
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Legend has it that three directors handled the films production chores. In fact as many as eight dir [...]
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Margaret Mitchell modeled the Tara plantation after several local plantations and antebellum establi [...]
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Hattie McDaniel's Oscar winning performance in this film is her only Academy Award nomination.
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When Alicia Rhett, who played India--the daughter of John Wilkes-died less than one month before her [...]
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Margaret Mitchell personally approved of Vivien Leigh's interpretation of Scarlett.
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David O. Selznick's first choice to direct Via col vento (1939) was George Cukor, with whom Selznick [...]
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Vivien Leigh was having an affair with Laurence Olivier at the time the film was made. However, the [...]
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Another reason George Cukor was fired was because he was too much of an intimate director and wouldn [...]
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For the premiere in Atlanta in December 15, 1939, the governor declared a state holiday. Ticket pric [...]
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In the film it is the death of his wife that causes Gerald O'Hara to lose his mind. The novel offers [...]
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The estimated production costs were $3.9 million. At the time, only Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ (19 [...]
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Three of the four principal actors--Leslie Howard, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh--died at the relativ [...]
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The Ku Klux Klan was written out of the screenplay as the organization to which Frank Kennedy turns [...]
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Hattie McDaniel was criticized by some African-Americans for playing in a supposedly racist film. Sh [...]
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Among the actresses considered for the part of Scarlett were Jean Arthur, Lucille Ball, Miriam Hopki [...]
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Besides the film, the novel "Gone with the Wind" has received other adaptations. Among them are the [...]
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To add to the publicity, fans were asked to vote for the actress they think should play Scarlett. Ou [...]
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The fictional character Scarlett from the G.I. Joe franchise (created in 1982) is named after Scarle [...]
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Although Selznick was insistent on finding a unknown to play Scarlett he became impressed very early [...]
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Mammy only have lines of dialog with 3 of the 4 main characters. There is not a single line of dialo [...]
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Italian censorship visa # 7600 delivered on 28 March 1950. (Italian Language Version)
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The four principals were billed on the film's posters in this order: Clark Gable, followed by Leslie [...]
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Clark Gable wasn't convinced that he was suited to play Rhett Butler in 'Gone With the Wind' which m [...]
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In June 2008 the film was ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films i [...]
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As Scarlett drives her buggy away after Big Sam saves her, her hat is off then on then off again.
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Screenwriter Sidney Howard refused to come out to Hollywood to write the script for Selznick and ins [...]
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Very few of the principal cast members liked the characters they were portraying. Clark Gable was in [...]
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None of the interior sets had ceilings. These, and the upper parts of many exteriors, were optically [...]
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Robert Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lew Ayres, William Bakewell and Ray Milland all auditioned for [...]
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Phyllis Douglas's debut.
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The film has never been cut. Some theatrical re-releases and home video releases are longer because [...]
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Leslie Howard's horse's name was Cochise. He belonged to Jack Davis (of Lubbock, TX) and was Mr. Dav [...]
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David O. Selznick, in a memo from October 1939 about the movie's writing credits: "You can say frank [...]
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The first rough cut in July 1939 ran 4-1/2 hours--48 minutes longer than the final release.
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Ona Munson, who played brothel madame Belle Watling, considered the film a curse as she was continua [...]
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Passed by the British Board of Film Censors on 29 March 1940 with an "A" certificate. The London pre [...]
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The Tara plantation is named after the Hill of Tara, an archaeological site in County Meath, Ireland [...]
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If the number of total admissions are calculated, this is the most popular movie of all time in the [...]
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The character of Ashley Wilkes was based on Margaret Mitchell's cousin by marriage John "Doc" Hollid [...]
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The film is neatly divided in half. Almost exactly 50% of the movie takes place during the Civil War [...]
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David O. Selznick originally wanted Lionel Barrymore to play Dr. Meade, but Barrymore's severe arthr [...]
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The early scene where Mammy reprimands Scarlett for not eating is one of the few remaining in the fi [...]
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Perhaps because the movie had so many cooks, it accumulated an unusually large number of major scene [...]
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Max Steiner was given only three months to compose the music, considering that 1939 was the busiest [...]
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One of the few remaining scenes directed by George Cukor to survive into the final cut of the film i [...]
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Clark Gable wore lifts in the film.
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The initial director, George Cukor, was fired over his problems with the screenplay and the constant [...]
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The chapters with the Ku Klux Klan from the book are glossed over in the movie: When the men, Ashley [...]
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The Hill of Tara, after which the Tara plantation is named, holds special cultural significance for [...]
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While the main house of the Tara plantation is luxurious in both the novel and the film, according t [...]
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During the casting, Erin O'Brien-Moore was suggested for the role of Scarlett, although she was ulti [...]
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During filming, Vivien Leigh reportedly smoked four packets of cigarettes a day. Clark Gable smoked [...]
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Super macho director Victor Fleming wanted Scarlett, for at least once in the film, to look like his [...]
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David O. Selznick was required to give MGM the distribution rights in exchange for the use of Clark [...]
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Besides the authorized sequels and prequel of "Gone with the Wind", there is a significant derivativ [...]
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Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler was Basil Rathbone.
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The baby who played newborn Bonnie Blue Butler was actually a boy, Greg Geise. He also played the ne [...]
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The film's script changed almost daily and the cast did not receive a final version of the script un [...]
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Judy Garland was the leading contender for the role of Scarlett's sister Carreen before her "Andy Ha [...]
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"The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-1940", lists this movie as having been f [...]
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In June 2020, the new HBO Max channel decided not to stream "Gone With the Wind" due to severe racia [...]
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The film was first released in the United Kingdom in April, 1940. It kept playing in theaters during [...]
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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
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Olivia de Havilland always meticulously researched her roles. As she had not yet had a baby in real [...]
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Was voted the eighth greatest film of all time by "Entertainment Weekly" magazine.
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Italian censorship visa # 5396 delivered on 12 March 1949. (Italian Language Subtitles)
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"Scarlett Fever: The Ultimate Pictorial Treasury of Gone with the Wind: Featuring the Collection of [...]
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Margaret Mitchell's inspiration for her book title came from the 13th line of the Ernest Dowson poem [...]
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Scarlett began the movie wearing a white dress (innocence) and ended it wearing a black dress (guilt [...]
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The main poster artwork for the 70mm re-release in 1967 was drawn by Italian artist Silvano Campeggi [...]
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After the opening titles, there is a scene-setting crawl which was originally written by Ben Hecht. [...]
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From 1936 to 1938, David O. Selznick called Tallulah Bankhead the "first choice among established st [...]
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According to a 2008 poll, the modern readership of the novel consisted mostly of women, those aged 4 [...]
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In May 2008 the two leads ranked #7 on Moviefone's "The Top 25 Sexiest Movie Couples".
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During the Atlanta ballroom scene, when Doctor Meade announces that if a gentleman would like to dan [...]
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American actor/ screenwriter Beau Dare was named after Olivia de Havilland's character's son, "Beau [...]
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There is ambiguity over exactly when Vivien Leigh was contracted to play Scarlett O'Hara. One theory [...]
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In a 2003 poll contacted by the BBC about the favorite novels of the British reading public, "Gone w [...]
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Gerald O'Hara was born in County Wicklow, Ireland on June 2, 1801 and died on November 14, 1865.
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The only film in which Vivien Leigh won an acting Oscar for her performance in a film which won Best [...]
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Lillian Gish had originally been approached to take on the part of Scarlett's mother.
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The idea of a sequel to this film was scrapped, but in the 1990s there was a sequel in the form of a [...]
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A major problem was what to use for Georgia's red earth. Brick dust was too heavy and talc too stick [...]
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The crane shot where Scarlett searches for Dr. Meade, making her way among suffering and dying Confe [...]
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Contrary to popular belief, this is not the first film to use the word "damn". The expletive was use [...]
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A leading contender for Scarlett O'Hara in this film, Katharine Hepburn lost out, but later served a [...]
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David O. Selznick only submitted Hattie McDaniel for Oscar consideration to the Academy when she cam [...]
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When Melanie says that Bonnie's eyes are "as blue as the 'Bonnie Blue' flag", she is referring to th [...]
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When Rhett pours Mammy a drink after the birth of Bonnie, for a joke during a take, Clark Gable actu [...]
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Victor Fleming believed the film would fail spectacularly, so he took a salary instead of a percenta [...]
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Billie Burke (best remembered today as Glinda the Good Witch in Il mago di Oz (1939)) was considered [...]
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At one point before shooting began, novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was brought in to assist in rewriti [...]
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At 37:46 in Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara) looks right at the camera for a split second.
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Ellen Robillard O'Hara was born on October 28, 1828 and died on September 1, 1864.
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Counting write-in nominations, this is the first year that the Best Actress Oscar winner, in this ca [...]
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In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #6 Greatest Movie of All Time.
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The "Gone With the Wind" cast includes six Oscar winners: Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel (both for [...]
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Leslie Howard privately felt that he was much too old to play Ashley Wilkes (the character was suppo [...]
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In his autobiography, Malcolm X has this to say: "I remember one thing that marred this time for me: [...]
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In the first hospital scene, the wounded Confederate says he lost track of his brother after the bat [...]
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Barbara O'Neil, who plays Scarlett's mother, was only 28 during the filming. Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Ke [...]
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A few of Margaret Mitchell's working titles for the novel included "Tomorrow is Another Day," "Not i [...]
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Vivien Leigh later said that she hated kissing Clark Gable because of his bad breath, rumored to be [...]
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Opinion in the African-American community was generally divided upon the release of the film. Some t [...]
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At the Wilkes' barbecue, Scarlett encounters all three of her future husbands, Charles Hamilton, Fra [...]
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Vivien Leigh's daughter was attending private school in Vancouver, British Columbia, when the movie [...]
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Included among the 25 films on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of AFI's 100 Years of Film Sc [...]
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David O. Selznick begged Margaret Mitchell, author of the novel, to critique every aspect of the pro [...]
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The only four actors David O. Selznick ever seriously considered for the role of Rhett Butler were C [...]
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Although Olivia de Havilland was always front-runner to play Melanie, Janet Gaynor, Fay Wray, Jane W [...]
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First color film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Leslie Howard was one of the few cast members not to attend the premiere in Atlanta. He returned to [...]
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Reportedly, one of the reasons stated by David O. Selznick as to why he fired George Cukor as direct [...]
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While the film was still in production, David O. Selznick wanted to evaluate an audience's response [...]
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As an actor in Britain, Vivien Leigh read Gone with the Wind and decided that the role of Scarlett w [...]
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Barbara O'Neil was only 28 when she appeared as Ellen O'Hara (Scarlett's mother). Vivien Leigh was 2 [...]
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MAD magazine published a parody of the film in 1991. In it the counterparts of Rhett and Ashley fall [...]
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A scene deleted from the final print has Scarlett coming across John Wilkes, Ashley's father, when s [...]
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Margaret Mitchell was dismayed at the scale of the Tara and Twelve Oaks sets, writing to her friend, [...]
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The big problem faced with the fire scene was how to keep the flames going for more than 40 minutes [...]
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When the AFI conducted a poll of filmmakers for the publication "Private Screenings," JoBeth William [...]
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This was cinematographer Ernest Haller's first color film.
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Out of the 1,400 actresses interviewed for the part of Scarlett O'Hara, 400 were asked to do reading [...]
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The sequence that is commonly referred to as "the Burning of Atlanta" was not the actual burning of [...]
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After the film finished shooting there were 88 hours of footage.
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David O Selznick wanted the railroad scene of the Confederate wounded to be the longest and highest [...]
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Nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any [...]
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There are more than 50 speaking roles and 2,400 extras in the film.
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The film had its first preview on 9 September 1939 at the Fox Theatre in Riverside, California. In a [...]
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According to newsreels, there were a handful of Confederate Civil War veterans who, though quite old [...]
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Betty Compson, Binnie Barnes, Evelyn Brent, Una Merkel, Glenda Farrell, Esther Muir and Ann Dvorak w [...]
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David O. Selznick traveled to Bermuda in September 1938 to finalize the script. He reportedly brough [...]
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As Scarlett is described in the book as having green eyes, the filmmakers used filters and eye makeu [...]
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The job of writing the script was given to Sidney Howard who produced the first draft in February 19 [...]
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Before casting had actually started, Margaret Mitchell was asked (during an interview) who she felt [...]
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Victor Jory, Rand Brooks and George Reeves would all, at various times, appear in the Hopalong Cassi [...]
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Prominent Atlanta preacher Martin Luther King Sr. (father of Martin Luther King) was invited to the [...]
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