Gone with the Wind [DVD] [1939]

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I was desperate to watch it as I my interest in Old Hollywood films and movie stars had already begun. This documentary reflects Clark’s incredible career and legacy told through pictures, old footage and interviews with Director William Wellmann, Adela Rogers St Johns, Andy Devine and Yvonne De Carlo.

Some of the dated racial stereotypes are a little cringeworthy, and the insistence that cotton is and will forever be the backbone of the South seems kind of myopic even in 1939. SD): The retrospectives for Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh were told through the words of others and spanned their entire lives. remains one the film's most iconic lines, and Harry Davenport as an ornery doctor are among just a few of note.Selznick and George Cukor, and how she had to turn to Jack Warner's wife to wrangle her way onto the cast. Its dialogue may also be the most eminently quotable of any single film released before Casablanca, and Gone with the Wind is, of course, flawlessly cast. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.

Why, you ask: because of the super rich man whose wealth just seems to be there, conveniently ready to be exploited by the enterprising female protagonist. Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh), the daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, often uses men to get what she wants, but is unable to get the one man she truly desires, Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). This is a rather bleak segment -- charting the shuttering of MGM in the early 1970s, including footage of its immaculate backlots being bulldozed, and the tragic end of Judy Garland's Hollywood career -- but it's not all downbeat.

In a more traditionally constructed screenplay, Gone with the Wind would've ended shortly after where the intermission is here, but the film chooses instead to follow the two lovers well after the Civil War has come to an end. Check out my Instagram accounts below for more Old Hollywood stars, quotes, facts, film and book reviews. These featurettes are divided into three groups -- "At Tara", "At Twelve Oaks", and "In Atlanta" -- and segmented out further from there.