GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

Laurence Olivier: I looked back at Vivien, her hair giving the perfect impression of Scarlett's, her cheeks prettily flushed, her lips adorably parted, her green eyes dancing and shining with excitement in the firelight; I said to myself, "David won't be able to resist that." I retreated, leaving the field to Myron; David and George were approaching and Myron stepped towards them. He indicated Vivien and said, "David, meet Scarlett O'Hara." *

Running Time: 220 minutes (color)

Director: Victor Fleming

Uncredited Directors: George Cukor and Sam Wood

Producer: David O. Selznick

Novel: Margaret Mitchell

Screenplay: Sidney Howard

Uncredited Screenwriters: John Balderston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Foster, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, Charles Miller, David O. Selznick, Jo Swerling, John Van Druten

Music: Max Steiner

Photography: Ernest Haller, A.S.C., Lee Garmes (Technicolor), associates Ray Rennahan, A.S.C., Wilfred M. Cline, A.S.C.

Also photos: Fred A. Parrish, Clarence Sinclair Bull, and Laszlo Willinger

Production Designer: William Cameron Menzies

Art Director: Lyle B. Platt

Interior Decoration: Edward Boyle

Costumes: Walter Plunkett

Scarlett's Hats: John Frederics (he did it free!)

Opened: December 15, 1939, Atlanta, Georgia; London, April 17, 1940

Starring: Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett O'Hara), Clark Gable (Rhett Butler), Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O'Hara), Barbara O'Neill (Ellen O'Hara), Evelyn Keyes (Suellen O'Hara), Ann Rutherford (Carreen O'Hara), George Reeves (Stuart Tarleton), Fred Crane (Brent Tarleton), Hattie McDaniel (Mammy), Oscar Polk (Pork - O'Hara House Servant), Butterfly McQueen (Prissy - O'Hara House Servant), Victor Jory (Jonas Wilkerson - O'Hara Field Overseer), Everett Brown (Big Sam - O'Hara Field Foreman), Howard C. Hickman (John Wilkes), Alicia Rhett (India Wilkes), Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Hamilton), Rand Brooks (Charles Hamilton), Carroll Nye (Frank Kennedy - Wilkes' Guest), Laura Hope Crews (Aunt 'Pittypat' Hamilton), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (Uncle Peter - Her Coachman), Harry Davenport (Dr. Meade), Leona Roberts (Mrs. Meade), Jane Darwell (Mrs. Dolly Merriwether), Ona Munson (Belle Watling), Cammie King (Bonnie Blue Butler), and Mickey Kuhn (Beau Wilkes)

Comments

David Selznick: I took one look and knew that she was right. (1938, before "Gone with the wind")

George Cukor: (about Scarlett O'Hara role) I saw her in "A Yank at Oxford" and she seems to be a little static, not quite sufficiently fiery for the role.

Margaret Mitchell: She is my Scarlett. (1939)

Suzan Hayward: She should have been Scarlett!

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