Gone With The Wind is a film based on Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With The Wind. It’s a romantic historical film. It is set in the times of the Civil War. It’s about the romance between Scarlet O’Hara and the confederate sympathizer Rhett Butler. The novel was published in 1936 when it first came out. The novel is told from the perspectives of white southerners. The novel was a success, and so was the movie version. Once the film was finished the director decided to premiere it in New York, but the Atlanta people forced him to do it in Atlanta, Georgia. It took a while to settle it, but the Georgians achieved it. Some few scenes in the film aren’t the ones from the book. The film crew invented several scenes that weren’t in the novel. One famous quote in the novel read from the character Rhett Butler saying, “My dear! I don’t give a damn!” has changed to “Frankly, my dear! I don’t give a damn!” in the film once Rhett departs from the defeated Scarlet O’Hara. The film crew interviewed more than 1,400 women for the part of Scarlet O’Hara. Vivien Leigh got the part of Scarlet O’Hara. Clark Gable got the part of Rhett Butler. This film has won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1940.

I have seen this movie many times, and loved it. I would love to read the novel also, even though it has too many pages. It still is beautifully written. I have seen the movie in my twenties, and I still love it. When the movie came out in Atlanta, Georgia in 1939 it got great reviews from the fans.