Things You Never Noticed In Gone With The Wind
(The Most Monumental Movie of the 20th Century and like all monuments there are those jealous wretches who wish it removed. I always thought Southern movies could fill their own genre. Like Westerns, there should be Southerns! This is especially true since such a great share of REAL classics have Southern themes and Southern roots – DD)
(The Reviewing Network) – At nearly four hours long, this has the longest running time of all motion pictures to win the prestigious Academy Award for Best Picture.
Hattie McDaniel became the first Black person to be nominated for – and win – an Academy Award.
Margaret Mitchell personally approved of Vivien Leigh’s interpretation of Scarlett.
If box-office receipts were adjusted for inflation, it would be the top-grossing movie of all time; Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) would only be the second most successful movie of all time. According to the Guinness World Records homepage, the total gross in 2012 figures for “GWTW” would be $4,401,358,554.94 in 2012.
Hattie McDaniel was criticized by some African-Americans for playing in a supposedly racist film. She responded that she would “rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one.”
After Scarlett returns to a vandalized Tara, digs up a radish in the garden, then retches and gives her famous “As God is my witness…” line, the vomiting sounds were actually looped by Dame Olivia de Havilland. One version of the story is that Vivien Leigh “could not” produce a convincing enough retching sound. Another version is that…
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