Soon after8pm on 10th December 1938 the first flames were started and with the pipe controls the fires lasted 1 1/2 hours. David O Selznick wanted the railroad scene of the Confederate wounded to be the longest and highest 'pull back' in film history to depict the shocking human wastage of war. In the first hospital scene the wounded Confederate says he lost track of his brother after the battle of Bull Run. At the fire sequence stuntman Yakima Canutt (Gable's long time double) drove the horse and buggy while another stuntman stood in for Scarlett, who at that time hadn't been cast. In a conversation with Scarlett, he uses the word "tommyrot". - The second half of the movie is far too melodramatic, and practically a soap opera. The character of Rhett Butler was partially inspired by, Pictured on one of four 25¢ US commemorative postage stamps issued 23 March 1990 honoring classic films released in 1939. According to a 2008 poll, the modern readership of the novel consisted mostly of women, those aged 44 or more, both Southerners and Midwesterners, both whites and Hispanics. |, June 27, 2015 In 1974, NBC paid MGM $5 million dollars for the right to show the movie once on TV. John Wayne, an industry co-star of Clark Gable's, said the following about the Gone With the Wind star: "Gable's an idiot. When Rhett bids $150 to dance with Scarlett, the crowd's cheer is the same one heard when Dr. Meade announced the auction. Ranks fourth (as of 2017) in the Academy Award most nominated films list with 13 nominations. Some theatrical re-releases and home video releases are longer because of the restored overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music, not because any deleted scenes have been restored and added. The record of $1.5 million paid by Michael Jackson to acquire David O. Selznick's "Gone with the Wind" Oscar in 1999, is the most ever paid for an Oscar. In the book, Charles and Scarlett have a son, Wade Hampton Hamilton, named after this general. They were Lords of Ormond. TCM is launching a new series called Reframed: Classic Films in the Rearview Mirror to look at 'troubling and problematic' aspects of 18 old Hollywood movies such as Psycho and My Fair Lady The sheer scope of the film is a massive undertaking, I watched this in one sitting, not for the average film goer as it was four hours. The film is insidious because the story, its characters, and its production value are all so compelling, and yet the background context is so toxic. Of all the actresses considered for the role. The Hill of Tara, after which the Tara plantation is named, holds special cultural significance for the Irish people. Very few of the principal cast members liked the characters they were portraying. In the era before fax machines, Howard's multiple drafts and Selznick's many memos had to be sent by mail and telegram. 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