Fuck Yeah, Gone With the Wind!

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Did you know that Rhett is 17 years older than...

At the end of the book Scarlett says she is 28 and Rhett says he is 45.

“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people...”

– Margaret Mitchell, on Gone With the Wind’s theme, 1936.

A memo from David Selznick on the proportion of...

Inter Office Communication Selznick International Pictures, Inc. TO: Messrs. Lambert, Plunkett, Richards cc: Messrs. Fleming, Klune, Stacey, Kurtz SUBJECT: GONE WITH THE WIND DATE: 3/13/39 copy In deciding the proportion of men to women in ordering our extras for the sequences in Atlanta, care should be taken that we clearly have many more women than men and a decreasing number of men as the...

Selznick insisted on authenticity down to pantaloons and petticoats feeling it would help the actor’s characterizations. He went so far as to bring in red dust from a tile kiln to rub on the actor’s shoes and clothes to reproduce Georgia’s red dirt.

fleurdeleighs asked: Hi! So I am a super huge fan, I literally grew up on GWTW (movie and book). :) I'm currently rereading the book and I know this is a really common question but it's one that I figure almost everyone is curious about and struggles to understand. So here it goes: what do you personally think the true relationship between Ashley and Scarlett is? Every time I think about it I get the...

amandapaige asked: I've been craving reading Gone With the Wind for over a month now, and today I decided I'm going to indulge... I read it once a year, usually at the beginning of summer, but I don't think I can last that long. This year I'm celebrating my sixth anniversary with the greatest book ever written : )

I thought if I was going to share this with anyone, it should be...

one-more-dawn-one-more-day asked: I just started the book, and already I love it. Margaret Mitchell's writing is so elaborate and beautiful, and it's so much more detailed. I carry it in my purse everywhere I go, because I hate being without a book. It weighs, like, 10 pounds though haha. But I'm so excited that I'm finally reading the book, after having seen the movie and falling in love with it.

Walter Plunkett made hundreds of sketches for the costumes in “Gone With The Wind.” He created more than 5,000 separate items of clothing for 59 major characters and hundreds of extras. Costumes from other period films were rented from Western Costume and had to be fitted. And hundreds of other items from shoes to parasols had to be rented or created for the film.

hmsvictory asked: I very nearly bought it one day but I flicked open a page & whatever someone was doing on that page didn't seem right for them to be doing so I got annoyed & didn't :x

David Selznick on the search for Scarlett O'Hara

To: Mr. Birdwell Subject: GONE WITH THE WIND - statement Date: 1/10/38 Dear Russell: Please prepare a statement for me along the following lines (this in order to pave the way for selection of a known actress for Scarlett, in case we are forced to it) : “I am reaching the end of my rope on a search for a new girl to play Scarlett O’Hara. We have gone to great extremes of...

hmsvictory asked: Belle becomes even more interesting with the thought of her son & Rhett possibly (I think he def is) being the father!

dooit-deactivated20111124 asked: I can't stop loving your blog.