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Gone With the Wind

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Indian-born British actor Vivien Leigh as she appeared in the classic film Gone With the Wind (1939) in the role of Scarlett O'Hara. The film won ten Academy Awards. This promotional studio picture makes Vivien Leigh look much younger than her actual 26 years. Her lead man, Clark Gable (who played Rhett Butler), was 38 years old at the time.

Film epic of 1939, set against the background of the American Civil War. It tells the story of the ill-fated love affair between a spoilt Southern belle, Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), and the adventurer Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Produced by David O Selznick, who used three directors (George Cukor, Sam Wood, and Victor Fleming) and 15 screenwriters, the film won a record ten Academy Awards.

The film, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, is made on a sweeping scale and features such scenes as the burning of Atlanta. It was one of the earliest Hollywood films made in colour.



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Thanks to Jill Watts, a film studies coordinator and professor of history at California State University, San Marcos, a portrait of the woman who many knew only as Mammy from Gone With the Wind and radio's Beulah emerges that is both more interesting, complex and complete than what preceded.
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood by Jamison, Sandra L. / Black Issues Book Review
I remember roiling my eyes at my mother, a great reader, when she ventured an opinion that Gone with the Wind was the Great American Novel, but now I'm inclined to think she was on the right track.
Classic reckoning. (Editorial) by The Horn Book Magazine
Among the topics addressed are the vagaries of Hollywood's rating system, the arts of directing and screenwriting, the blacklisting of talented artists in the 1950s, the potential effects of digital technology on film production, the legacy of Stanley Kubrick, the controversies surrounding the filming of Gone With the Wind and American Psycho, and even the amazing career of Charlie Gemora, Hollywood's pioneering master designer of gorilla costumes.
Landis, John. ed. The best American movie writing 2001 by Cooper, Jeffrey / Kliatt
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