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Gone with the Wind (film)

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Gone with the Wind
A film poster shawin a man an a wummin in a passionate embrace.
Theatrical pre-release poster
Directit bi
Produced biDavid O. Selznick
Screenplay bi
Based onGone with the Wind
bi Margaret Mitchell
Starnin
Muisic biMax Steiner
Cinematography
Eeditit bi
  • Hal C. Kern
  • James E. Newcom
Production
company
Distributit biLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • 15 December 1939 (1939-12-15) (Atlanta premiere)
Rinnin time
KintraUnitit States
LeidInglis
Budget$3.85 million
Box office$390 million

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adaptit frae Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winnin 1936 novel[1] an producit bi David O. Selznick, o Selznick International Pictures.[2]

Set in the 19t-century American Sooth, the film tells the story o Scarlett O'Hara, played bi Vivien Leigh, an her romantic pursuit o Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) who is mairit tae his cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), an her marriage tae Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Set against the backdrop o the American Ceevil War an Reconstruction era, the story is telt frae the perspective o white Sootherners.

References

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  1. "Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)". www.pulitzer.org (in Inglis). Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
  2. "David O. Selznick, 63, Producer Of 'Gone With the Wind', Dies". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.