Fashion Friday #8: Hollywood Premiere of “Gone With the Wind”
On December 28th, 1939, Gone With the Wind finally had its premiere in Hollywood. The premiere was held at Fox’s Carthay Circle Theater, which had opened in 1926. Sadly, the theater was demolished in 1969 to make room for an office…
Fashion Friday #7: Gone With The Wind in Atlanta
In December, 1939, Atlanta fell under the spell of David Selznick’s masterpiece, Gone With the Wind. The mayor of Atlanta, William Hartsfield, declared a three day holiday to celebrate the movie’s premiere at Loew’s Grand Theater on Peachtree Street. Three…
Gone With the Wind Auction Highlights
In case you haven’t heard, Scarlett’s Shantytown dress sold at auction for $137,000 this past weekend. The price isn’t too surprising if you factor in the starting price of $60,000, along with the auction house fee and the fact that…
Broadway’s Billboard Signs
Part One“Good Signs on Broadway Soon Junked”November, 1946by Saul Pett Outside they were carving up 30 feet of Jane Russell and loading it into a truck. Inside, grey-haired, practical minded Jacob Starr observed, “In my business, you can’t be sentimental.…
15 Things About “Gone With the Wind” and the Oscars
The Oscars are almost upon us, so I thought it would be fun to look back to when Gone With the Wind swept the awards’ ceremony. The 12th Annual Academy Awards took place on February 29th, 1940, at the Coconaut…
Happy 75th Anniversary, Gone With The Wind!
Gone With The Wind premiered seventy-five years ago, today, on December 15th, 1939, in Atlanta, Georgia. This premiere event was followed by two more: one in New York City and another one in Hollywood. Ann Rutherford was the first star…
The Search for Scarlett O’Hara
From the time it was announced, that David O. Selznick would be making Gone With The Wind into a movie, all the gossip columnists and movie magazines were aflutter with whom should play the characters Margaret Mitchell so expertly brought…
The Vintage Bride: Scarlett O’Hara
Today’s vintage bride is the fictional heroine of Gone With The Wind, Scarlett O’Hara. Scarlett O’Hara, at the young age of 16, married Charles Hamilton in the spring of 1861. The Civil War had just begun and beaux were marrying their young…
Gone With The Wind, Indeed!
Photoplay, March 1937by Kirtley Baskette Call out the riot squad! A new Civil War is raging! Who will play the principals in the world’s best seller? Time was when you could call a man a rat in Hollywood and get…
On Top of the World
Vintage Article from April 1940 (Author’s name not given) During those long months when “Gone with the Wind” was in production, the film colony never got to know Vivien Leigh. She led the life of a recluse. Then she conquered…