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Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard (View All)
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Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen time, on a then-astronomical 3.7-million-dollar budget, creating what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time. Gone With the Wind opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry "mealy mouthed" Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Despite warnings from her father (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at an upcoming barbecue at Twelve Oaks. Alone with Ashley, she goes into a fit of histrionics, all of which is witnessed by roguish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the black sheep of a wealthy Charleston family, who is instantly fascinated by the feisty, thoroughly self-centered Scarlett: "We're bad lots, both of us." The movie's famous action continues from the burning of Atlanta (actually the destruction of a huge wall left over from King Kong) through the now-classic closing line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Holding its own against stiff competition (many consider 1939 to be the greatest year of the classical Hollywood studios), Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar). The film grossed nearly 192 million dollars, assuring that, just as he predicted, Selznick's epitaph would be "The Man Who Made Gone With the Wind." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
12/15/39
MPAA Rating
Rated G
Running Time
220 mins. (POTY)
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$6,960,259
Awards
- Winner of the U.S. National Film Registry award at the 1988 Library of Congress [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Editing award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1940 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Art Direction award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Award award at the 1939 Photoplay [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the 100 Greatest American Movies award at the 1998 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Winner of the 10 Best Films award at the 1939 Film Daily [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Acting award at the 1940 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the 10 Best Films award at the 1939 New York Times [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Special Effects award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Honorary and Other Awards award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Color Cinematography award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1939 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
Distributor
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)
- New Line Cinema
- Turner Entertainment Company
