So George just told David he would not work any longer if the script was not better and he wanted the Howard script back. Offhand I doubt that there are ten original words of [Oliver] Garrett's in the whole script. [5][6][7], The casting of the two lead roles became a complex, two-year endeavor. His comments elicited commentary from critics and a backlash from pundits across the political spectrum on social media. Rhett kisses Scarlett against her will and rapes her. A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. As Scarlett consoles Ashley, Rhett prepares to leave Atlanta. Steiner drew considerably on folk and patriotic music, which included Stephen Foster tunes such as "Louisiana Belle", "Dolly Day", "Ringo De Banjo", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Old Folks at Home", and "Katie Belle", which formed the basis of Scarlett's theme; other tunes that feature prominently are: "Marching through Georgia" by Henry Clay Work, "Dixie", "Garryowen", and "The Bonnie Blue Flag". [51] Franz Hoellering of The Nation was of the same opinion: "The result is a film which is a major event in the history of the industry but only a minor achievement in motion-picture art. "A Black Feminist's Response To Trump's Question: "Can We Get Gone With The Wind Back, Please? Victor Fleming, who was directing The Wizard of Oz, was called in from MGM to complete the picture, although Cukor continued privately to coach Leigh and De Havilland. – Nominated, This page was last edited on 9 April 2021, at 18:44. He went on to characterize it as a "nostalgic plea for sympathy for a still living cause of Southern reaction". As with Mitchell’s best-selling novel, “Gone With the Wind” is set on a Georgia plantation during and after the Civil War. It ran for four hours and twenty-five minutes; it was later cut to under four hours for its proper release. [49][50], The film debuted on videocassette in March 1985, where it placed second in the sales charts,[19] and has since been released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. Leigh's American agent was the London representative of the Myron Selznick talent agency (headed by David Selznick's brother, one of the owners of Selznick International), and she had requested in February that her name be submitted for consideration as Scarlett. [38][71] Successful re-releases in 1954 and 1961 enabled it to retain its position as the industry's top earner, despite strong challenges from more recent films such as Ben-Hur,[75] but it was finally overtaken by The Sound of Music in 1966. We read it when we're young and fall in love with the characters, then we watch the film and read the book again and watch the film again and never get tired of revisiting an era that is the most important in our history. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Scarlett learns that her secret crush Ashley Wilkes is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. Add To Cart. [90][91] Schickel also believes the film fails as popular art, in that it has limited rewatch value—a sentiment that Kauffmann also concurs with, stating that having watched it twice he hopes "never to see it again: twice is twice as much as any lifetime needs". The effort cost $100,000 and proved useless for the main objective of casting the role, but created "priceless" publicity. [62] Even so, some sections of the black community recognized McDaniel's achievements to be representative of progression: some African-Americans crossed picket lines and praised McDaniel's warm and witty characterization, and others hoped that the industry's recognition of her work would lead to increased visibility on screen for other black actors. “Gone With the Wind," the classic novel and movie about the old South, is suddenly getting a very frosty reception. [66][67] It repeated its success overseas, and was a sensational hit during the Blitz in London, opening in April 1940 and playing for four years. In 1861, on the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters and their many slaves. The film, adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell, is … The barbecue is disrupted by news of the declaration of war, and the men rush to enlist. [101][102], Gone with the Wind has been criticized as having perpetuated Civil War myths and black stereotypes. Gone With The Wind: the old watermill seen at the opening: North Little Rock Mill, North Little Rock, Arkansas | Photograph: wikimedia / Ernest Mettendorf. When Scarlett begs him to run away with her, he confesses his desire for her and kisses her passionately, but says he cannot leave Melanie. [19] Another MGM director, Sam Wood, worked for two weeks in May when Fleming temporarily left the production due to exhaustion. However, Selznick changed his mind after his story editor Kay Brown and business partner John Hay Whitney urged him to buy the film rights. It generated a box-office gross of $68 million, making it MGM's most lucrative picture after Doctor Zhivago from the latter half of the decade. In all, there are ninety-nine separate pieces of music featured in the score. View production, box office, & company info. [82][83][84] In total, Gone with the Wind has grossed over $390 million globally at the box office;[85] in 2007 Turner Entertainment estimated the gross to be equivalent to approximately $3.3 billion when adjusted for inflation to current prices,[10] while Guinness World Records arrived at a figure of $3.44 billion in 2014, making it the most successful film in cinema history. [40] There were further re-releases in 1971, 1974 and 1989; for the fiftieth anniversary reissue in 1989, it was given a complete audio and video restoration. It captivates you from beginning to end. An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. [10][56], Black commentators criticized the film for its depiction of black people and as a glorification of slavery; they have done so since the release of the film, but initially newspapers controlled by white Americans did not report on these criticisms. The Road to Tara Museum (Jonesboro) exhibits a collection of Margaret Mitchell’s china, as well as original props, costume reproductions and a photo gallery. Rhett and Scarlett have a daughter whom Rhett names Bonnie Blue, but Scarlett still pines for Ashley and, chagrined at the perceived ruin of her figure, refuses to have any more children or share a bed with Rhett. Emanuel Levy, Cukor's biographer, claimed that Gable had worked Hollywood's gay circuit as a hustler and that Cukor knew of his past, so Gable used his influence to have him discharged. [39], A 1961 release of the film commemorated the centennial anniversary of the start of the Civil War, and it also included a gala "premiere" at the Loew's Grand Theater. [132], George [Cukor] finally told me all about it. [129] In 1990, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp depicting Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh embracing in a scene from the film. Selznick refused to let us eat lunch, arguing that food would slow us up. [18] Selznick dismissed director George Cukor three weeks into filming and sought out Victor Fleming, who was directing The Wizard of Oz at the time. Although the film has been criticized as historical negationism glorifying slavery, it has been credited with triggering changes in the way in which African Americans are depicted cinematically. Just before the war begins, the pampered and beautiful Scarlett -- whose family plantation is called Tara -- attends a ball. However, Hopkins was in her mid-thirties at the time and was considered too old for the part. This historical novel features a coming-of-age story, with the title taken from the poe… After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Your Price: $47.95 Add To Cart. [19] It was also the subject of a 1988 documentary, The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind, detailing the film's difficult production history. [91][92] Both Schickel and Andrew Sarris identify the film's main failing is in possessing a producer's sensibility rather than an artistic one: having gone through so many directors and writers the film does not carry a sense of being "created" or "directed", but rather having emerged "steaming from the crowded kitchen", where the main creative force was a producer's obsession in making the film as literally faithful to the novel as possible. [105], W. Bryan Rommel Ruiz has argued that despite factual inaccuracies in its depiction of the Reconstruction period, Gone with the Wind reflects contemporary interpretations of it that were common in the early 20th century. [35] President Jimmy Carter later recalled it as "the biggest event to happen in the South in my lifetime". It was re-released periodically throughout the 20th century and became ingrained in popular culture. [9][32] In his biography of Selznick, David Thomson wrote that the audience's response before the film had even started "was the greatest moment of [Selznick's] life, the greatest victory and redemption of all his failings",[33] with Selznick describing the preview cards as "probably the most amazing any picture has ever had". While perpetuating some Lost Cause myths, the film makes concessions with regard to others. Rhett's classic final line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," … At the Capitol Theatre in New York alone, it averaged eleven thousand admissions per day in late December,[37] and within four years of its release had sold an estimated sixty million tickets across the United States—sales equivalent to just under half the population at the time. [53] The Manchester Guardian felt that the film's one serious drawback was that the story lacked the epic quality to justify the outlay of time and found the second half, which focuses on Scarlett's "irrelevant marriages" and "domestic squabbles", mostly superfluous, and the sole reason for their inclusion had been "simply because Margaret Mitchell wrote it that way". 25 of 28 people found this review helpful. "[114] The film's removal sparked a debate about political correctness going too far, with film critics and historians criticising HBO over potential censorship. [36] Premieres in New York and Los Angeles followed, the latter attended by some of the actresses that had been considered for the part of Scarlett, among them Paulette Goddard, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. It won for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Editing, and received two further honorary awards for its use of equipment and color (it also became the first color film to win Best Picture). Production was difficult from the start. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? As she is recovering, tragedy strikes when Bonnie dies while attempting to jump a fence with her pony. Hecht was in the middle of working on the film At the Circus for the Marx Brothers. [103], From 1972 to 1996, the Atlanta Historical Society held a number of Gone with the Wind exhibits, among them a 1994 exhibit which was titled, "Disputed Territories: Gone with the Wind and Southern Myths". In a bid to arouse jealousy in Ashley, Scarlett marries Melanie's younger brother Charles before he leaves to fight. [62][64] Malcolm X later recalled that "when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug". Producer David O. Selznick’s acclaimed screen adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s best-selling novel tells of the romance between the tempestuous Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) and the dashing Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), against the tragic backdrop of the Civil War. When and where does the movie take place? [9] The 1954 reissue was the first time the film was shown in widescreen, compromising the original Academy ratio and cropping the top and bottom to an aspect ratio of 1.75:1. [73][74], When it was re-released in 1947, it earned an impressive $5 million rental in the United States and Canada, and was one of the top ten releases of the year. "[111][112][113] A spokesperson for HBO Max said that the film was "a product of its time" and as a result, it depicted "ethnic and racial prejudices" that "were wrong then and are wrong today". [117] Stewart described the film, in an op-ed for CNN, as "a prime text for examining expressions of white supremacy in popular culture", and said that "it is precisely because of the ongoing, painful patterns of racial injustice and disregard for Black lives that "Gone with the Wind" should stay in circulation and remain available for viewing, analysis and discussion." [37] Including its distribution and advertising costs, total expenditure on the film was as high as $7 million. [46][19][47] Other cable channels also broadcast the film during June. According to Cripps, the film eventually became a template for measuring social change. Jack L. Warner of Warner Bros liked the story, but his biggest star Bette Davis was not interested, and Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox had not offered enough money. [10] It was the longest American sound film made up to that point, and may still hold the record of the longest Best Picture winner depending on how it is interpreted. [19] Turner Entertainment acquired the MGM film library in 1986, but the deal did not include the television rights to Gone with the Wind, which were still held by CBS. [48] It made its network television debut in November of that year; NBC paid $5 million for a one-off airing, and it was broadcast in two parts on successive evenings. Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. In its editorial congratulation to McDaniel on winning her Academy Award, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life used the film as reminder of the "limit" put on black aspiration by old prejudices. With Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil. Scarlett is beautiful. [9][nb 3] Selznick and Cukor had already disagreed over the pace of filming and the script,[9][22] but other explanations put Cukor's departure down to Gable's discomfort at working with him. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. [62], Opinion in the black community was generally divided upon release, with the film being called by some a "weapon of terror against black America" and an insult to black audiences, and demonstrations were held in various cities. [41] For its 1967 re-release, the film was blown up to 70mm,[9] and issued with updated poster artwork featuring Gable—with his white shirt ripped open—holding Leigh against a backdrop of orange flames. Selznick and Fleming, eager to continue with their acting, kept hurrying me. [5] Early frontrunners included Miriam Hopkins and Tallulah Bankhead, who were regarded as possibilities by Selznick prior to the purchase of the film rights; Joan Crawford, who was signed to MGM, was also considered as a potential pairing with Gable. Moss further called out the stereotypical black characterizations, such as the "shiftless and dull-witted Pork", the "indolent and thoroughly irresponsible Prissy", Big Sam's "radiant acceptance of slavery", and Mammy with her "constant haranguing and doting on every wish of Scarlett". [53] John C. Flinn wrote for Variety that Selznick had "left too much in", and that as entertainment, the film would have benefited if repetitious scenes and dialog from the latter part of the story had been trimmed. It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler. In turn, Whitney sold it on to MGM for $2.8 million, so that the studio owned the film outright. [8][9][10], Many famous—or soon-to-be-famous—actresses were considered, but only thirty-one women were actually screen-tested for Scarlett including Ardis Ankerson, Jean Arthur, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Nancy Coleman, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew (as Terry Ray), Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward (under her real name of Edythe Marrenner), Vivien Leigh, Anita Louise, Haila Stoddard, Margaret Tallichet, Lana Turner and Linda Watkins. [110], On June 9, 2020, the film was removed from HBO Max amid the George Floyd protests as well as in response to an op-ed written by screenwriter John Ridley that was published in that day's edition of the Los Angeles Times, which called for the streaming service to temporarily remove the film from its content library. [87][88], In revisiting the film in the 1970s, Arthur Schlesinger believed that Hollywood films generally age well, revealing an unexpected depth or integrity, but in the case of Gone with the Wind time has not treated it kindly. It was costing Selznick $50,000 each day the film was on hold waiting for a final screenplay rewrite and time was of the essence. Scarlett learns that her mother has just died of typhoid fever and her father has lost his mind. Unable to pay the Reconstructionist taxes imposed on Tara, Scarlett dupes her younger sister Suellen's fiancé, the middle-aged and wealthy general store owner Frank Kennedy, into marrying her, by saying Suellen got tired of waiting and married another suitor. [38] MGM immediately re-released the film in the spring of 1942,[19] and again in 1947 and 1954. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War. For days, he told me he has looked at the rushes and felt he was failing... the thing did not click as it should. [86], The film remains immensely popular with audiences into the 21st century, having been voted the most popular film in two nationwide polls of Americans undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008, and again in 2014. [130] In 2003, Leigh and Gable (as Scarlett and Rhett) were ranked number 95 on VH1's list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time". [77] MGM earned a rental of $41 million from the release,[78] with the U.S. and Canadian share amounting to over $30 million, placing it second only to The Graduate for that year. [44] In 2014, special screenings were scheduled over a two-day period at theaters across the United States to coincide with the film's 75th anniversary. Contrary to what you might have assumed, there have always been people who took issue with the film. "[18] Selznick, in a memo written in October 1939, discussed the film's writing credits: "[Y]ou can say frankly that of the comparatively small amount of material in the picture which is not from the book, most is my own personally, and the only original lines of dialog which are not my own are a few from Sidney Howard and a few from Ben Hecht and a couple more from John Van Druten. [28][nb 4], Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined Selznick $5,000 for using the word "damn" in Butler's exit line, in fact the Motion Picture Association board passed an amendment to the Production Code on November 1, 1939, that forbade use of the words "hell" or "damn" except when their use "shall be essential and required for portrayal, in proper historical context, of any scene or dialogue based upon historical fact or folklore ... or a quotation from a literary work, provided that no such use shall be permitted which is intrinsically objectionable or offends good taste". To compose the score, Selznick chose Max Steiner, with whom he had worked at RKO Pictures in the early 1930s. They acted scenes based on Sidney Howard's original script which needed to be rewritten in a hurry. [65] The film has been described as a "regression" that promotes both the myth of the black rapist and the honorable and defensive role of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction,[104] and as a "social propaganda" film offering a "white supremacist" view of the past. Quick View. Price to coach the actors on speaking with a Southern drawl. He provided bananas and salted peanuts ... thus on the seventh day I had completed, unscathed, the first nine reels of the Civil War epic. [11] Although Margaret Mitchell refused to publicly name her choice, the actress who came closest to winning her approval was Miriam Hopkins, who Mitchell felt was just the right type of actress to play Scarlett as written in the book. But not now, so I beg you not … The tide of war turns against the Confederacy after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which many of the men of Scarlett's town are killed. She has vitality. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. [26] Tara, the fictional Southern plantation house, existed only as a plywood and papier-mâché facade built on the Selznick studio lot. [51] Similarly, Hoellering found her "perfect" in "appearance and movements"; he felt her acting best when she was allowed to "accentuate the split personality she portrays" and thought she was particularly effective in such moments of characterization like the morning after the marital rape scene. From Wings to Parasite, here's a look back at all of the Best Picture Oscar winners in the history of the ceremony. The score is characterized by two love themes, one for Ashley's and Melanie's sweet love and another that evokes Scarlett's passion for Ashley, though notably there is no Scarlett and Rhett love theme. 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