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Cast: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia
de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil,
Evelyn Keyes, Butterfly McQueen, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves, Fred Crane,
Oscar Polk, Victor Jory, Howard Hickman, Rand Brooks, Laura Hope Crews, Eddie
Anderson, Harry Davenport, Jane Darwell, Ona Munson, Paul Hurst, Isabel Jewell,
Eric Linden, Ward Bond, Jackie Moran, Cliff Edwards, Yakima Canutt, Louis Jean
Heydt, Irving Bacon, Alicia Rhett, Everett Brown, William Bakewell, Mary
Anderson, Carroll Nye, Cammie King, Leona Roberts, Mickey Kuhn, Lillian Kemble-Cooper,
Olin Howland, Robert Elliott; Directed by: Victor Fleming
Synopsis:
Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a
spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O.
Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling
novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen time, on a then-astronomical
3.7-million-dollar budget, creating what would become one of the most beloved
movies of all time. Gone With the Wind opens in April of 1861, at the
palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears
that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry "mealy
mouthed" Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Despite warnings from her
father (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel),
Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at an upcoming barbecue at Twelve
Oaks. Alone with Ashley, she goes into a fit of histrionics, all of which is
witnessed by roguish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the black sheep of a wealthy
Charleston family, who is instantly fascinated by the feisty, thoroughly
self-centered Scarlett: "We're bad lots, both of us." The movie's famous action
continues from the burning of Atlanta (actually the destruction of a huge wall
left over from King Kong) through the now-classic closing line, "Frankly, my
dear, I don't give a damn." Holding its own against stiff competition (many
consider 1939 to be the greatest year of the classical Hollywood studios),
Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting
Actress (Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar). The film
grossed nearly 192 million dollars, assuring that, just as he predicted,
Selznick's epitaph would be "The Man Who Made Gone With the Wind."