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10 unusual facts about Gone with the Wind


Alexandra Ripley

Alexandra Ripley, née Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), the sequel to Gone with the Wind.

Desert Star Theater

"Gone with the Wind"), and more obscure fare (e.g. some Thursday nights were reserved for Swedish films shown especially for Swedish immigrants brought to Murray by the smelters).

Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier

Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier (March 25, 1896 - January 3, 1984) was an American author best known for her 1942 first novel, the best seller Drivin' Woman, which was promoted as a novel in the vein of Gone with the Wind.

Fort Mims massacre

The Fort Mims massacre is cited in Margaret Mitchell's epic novel Gone with the Wind.

Georgia State Route 3

The portion of Tara Boulevard in Clayton County that is not covered by US 19/US 41 and SR 3 near Interstate 75 is designated as State Route 3 Connector.

Hill of Tara

Tara plantation : In the book and the motion picture Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Tara Hill is the origin of the name of the O'Hara plantation in Georgia, USA

Jun Sena

In 2002, she had her first lead role as a female character when she performed as Scarlett O'Hara opposite Yu Todoroki's Rhett Butler in an adaptation of Gone with the Wind.

However, she also received praise for her female roles, such as Scarlett O'Hara in the Flower Troupe production of Gone with the Wind in 2002 and Elisabeth of Bavaria in the Moon Troupe production of Elisabeth in 2005.

Leona Roberts

Roberts was best known for her portrayal of Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind, together with Harry Davenport, who played Doctor Meade.

Nobuko Albery

Through her theater work she helped to bring several adaptations of Western plays to Japan, beginning in 1963 with Gone with the Wind.


B. Reeves Eason

He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on Ben-Hur (1925), the climactic charge in Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Bonnie Blue Flag

In the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell and the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler nicknames his newborn daughter "Bonnie Blue Butler" when Melanie Wilkes remarks that her eyes are "as blue as the Bonnie Blue

Bryan Grant

Grant was also a member of the Piedmont Driving Club and had the privilege of escorting Olivia de Havilland to the Atlanta opening of Gone with the Wind.

Butte County, California

Several movies have been filmed in Butte County, including Gone with the Wind, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Friendly Persuasion, Magic Town, The Klansman, Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Under Wraps.

Damnation

The use of "damn" in Rhett Butler's parting line to Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind in 1939 challenged sensitivities at the time.

French Provincial

The Flashback sequence of Pedret’s youth wings from Wuthering Heights and the flaming silhouettes of Gone with the Wind to The Conformist and The Spider's Stratagem.

James M. Cox

He built a large newspaper enterprise, Cox Enterprises, including the December 1939 purchase of the Atlanta Georgian and Journal just a week before that city hosted the premiere of Gone with the Wind.

Jingle Jangle Comics

His experience included painting the first edition dust jacket for Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and ghosting the newspaper strip Reg’lar Fellas for artist Gene Byrnes.

John Goldwyn

His maternal grandparents were Sidney Howard, screenwriter of Gone with the Wind and 70 other films, and Clare Eames, an actress.

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

Kiss the Boys Goodbye is a 1941 comedy film based on a play by Clare Boothe Luce which was inspired by the search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in the film version of Gone with the Wind.

Miss

In some American subcultures, such as the American South and some urban cultures, Miss is sometimes used irrespective of marital status with a woman's first name in direct or indirect informal address, as Miss Ellen from Gone with the Wind or Miss Ellie from Dallas.

Remington Model 1858

Remington percussion revolvers and conversions have appeared in notable movie scenes in films such as The Big Trail, Pale Rider, Gone with the Wind, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as early episodes of Bonanza.

Rue de la Paix, Paris

Rue de la Paix in mentioned by Rhett Butler in the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell as the source of the green bonnet purchased to bring Scarlett O'Hara out of mourning.

Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin

, 252 F. 3d 1165 (11th Cir. 2001), opinion at 268 F.3d 1257, was a case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit against the owner of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, vacating an injunction prohibiting the publisher of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone from distributing the book.

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind is a 1988 documentary outlining the successes and challenges of the casting, filming, and legacy of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, from concept to finished product.

The Playboys

When Gone With the Wind plays on the local cinema, the actors stage an instant, improvised knock-off of it, with Atlanta burning while Tom struggles with his lines in the role of Rhett Butler.

Thomas Blackshear

Other U.S. postage stamps with Blackshear illustrations include portraits of Joe Louis, Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk for the Jazz Series, and illustrations for stamps commemorating James Cagney, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Beau Geste and Stagecoach for the Classic Hollywood Movies series, as well as several stamps for Classic Movie Monsters.

Type 99 light machine gun

Harry Davenport (Dr. Meade in "Gone With the Wind"), portraying Nick Charles' father, remarks that there is nothing wrong with that as thousands of our boys brought guns back.

Wallis Clark

Five of these films won Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Gone with the Wind (1939).

William Bakewell

He never achieved significant status past the Depression years, although he became familiar in dozens of films, from Gone with the Wind (1939) to the phenomenally popular Disney series, Davy Crockett (1954-1955), in which he played Maj. Tobias Norton and a Keelboat Race Master of Ceremonies.

William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse

After travelling extensively, on 15 September 1936 at Marylebone Rhodes-Moorhouse married Amalia Demetriadi, who had been approached to be screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind.