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# Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind is the name of a 1936 book by Margaret Mitchell, and a famous 1939 movie of the same name from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

## [edit] Book

Margaret Mitchell's original book from 1936 was one of the most popular of its time. It tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, and her adventures in the American South (and in the plantation of Tara) during the Civil War. During the book, she falls in love with Rhett Butler.

The title takes its name from the lines an Ernest Dowson poem: "I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind." (This line also appears in the book.)

Critics and historians have said of its views of Confederancy and the American South before the Civil War. But it is true to the events of the time, and also has a well-written account of the fall of Atlanta in 1864.

The book won the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937.

In 1991, Alexander Ripley wrote its official sequel, Scarlett. Three years later, it was made as a television miniseries.

In 2001, the copyright holders of the original book tried to stop sales of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone. (The book retold Mitchell's story from a slave's point of view.) The resulting lawsuit allowed the book to be published; it was seen, based on rules in the First Amendment, as a parody.

## [edit] Movie

Gone with the Wind
Directed by | Victor Fleming George Cukor (uncredited) Sam Wood (uncredited)
Produced by | David O. Selznick

Written by

Margaret Mitchell (novel),
Sidney Howard (adapted screenplay),
Ben Hecht (uncredited),
David O. Selznick (uncredited),
Jo Swerling (uncredited),
and John Van Druten (uncredited)

Music by | Max Steiner
Cinematography | Ernest Haller Lee Garmes (uncredited)
Editing by | {{{editing}}}
Executive producer(s) | {{{ex-prod}}}
Starring | Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
Tagline | The most magnificent picture ever!
Production companies | Selznick International Pictures
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released | December 15, 1939
Running time | 222 mins
Country | {{{country}}}
Language | English
Budget | $3,900,000 (estimated)
Came after | {{{came_after}}}
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The movie version based on Margaret Mitchell's book premiered in Atlanta, Georgia on December 15, 1939. It won eight Academy Awards, one of them for Best Picture.

In terms of inflation, Gone with the Wind has become the highest-grossing movie of all time [1].

The movie's last line (from Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara), "Frankly, my dear, I do not give a damn," was called the greatest movie quote of all time by the American Film Institute [2].

It is one of the greatest movies ever made in the United States. It was number four in AFI's "100 Years... 100 Movies" list [3].

## [edit] External links

- The Story behind Margaret Mitchell's book
- Gone with the Wind at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- RaveCentral: Gone with the Wind
- Greatest Movies page
- Scarlett (sequel) at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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