Summary:
Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, 1st published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, GA, & Atlanta during the American Civil War & Reconstruction era. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea. A historical novel, the story is a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson. Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the onset & was the top American fiction bestseller in the year it was published & in 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the 2nd favorite book by American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide.
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Scarlett
Summary:
The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger than life but as real as ourselves. Now bestselling writer Alexandra Ripley brings us back to Tara and reintroduces us to the characters we remember so well: Rhett, Ashley, Mammy, Suellen, Aunt Pittypat, and, of course, Scarlett. As the classic story, first told over half a century ago, moves forward, the greatest love affair in all fiction is reignited; amidst heartbreak and joy, the endless, consuming passion between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler reaches its startling culmination. Rich with surprises at every turn and new emotional, breathtaking adventures, Scarlett satisfies our longing to reenter the world of Gone With the Wind, and like its predecessor, Scarlett will find an eternal place in our hearts.
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What can I say about Gone With the Wind that hasn't already been said in over 75 years since it's original publication? It's a true classic that I think should be a must read for anyone who loves historical fiction/romance. Rhett Butler is the iconic anti-hero and Scarlett? Well she's Scarlett and I think that's the best way to describe her, she's just Scarlett. Feisty, determined, straight-forward, beautiful, and a dozen other adverbs to describe her personality.
I've included Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley in this week's Friday Film Adaption because even though it's not as good as the original it is the continuing tale of the characters we love as well as many new ones. I think the author did a very decent job of the keeping the same writing flow as Margaret Mitchell and yet she made it her own. Scarlett is still very determined and very stubborn and on more than one occasion they get her into trouble, but will they get her Rhett? You'll have to read for that one.
I've included Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley in this week's Friday Film Adaption because even though it's not as good as the original it is the continuing tale of the characters we love as well as many new ones. I think the author did a very decent job of the keeping the same writing flow as Margaret Mitchell and yet she made it her own. Scarlett is still very determined and very stubborn and on more than one occasion they get her into trouble, but will they get her Rhett? You'll have to read for that one.
Films
Gone With The Wind
Release date December 15, 1939 (Atlanta premiere)
Running time 221 minutes and 234–238 minutes (with overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music)
CAST
Tara plantation
Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara
Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara (his wife)
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara (daughter)
Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara (daughter)
Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara (daughter)
George Reeves as Brent Tarleton (actually as Stuart)[nb 1]
Fred Crane as Stuart Tarleton (actually as Brent)[nb 1]
Hattie McDaniel as Mammy (house servant)
Oscar Polk as Pork (house servant)
Butterfly McQueen as Prissy (house servant)
Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson (field overseer)
Everett Brown as Big Sam (field foreman)
At Twelve Oaks
Howard C. Hickman as John Wilkes
Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes (his daughter)
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes (his son)
Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton (their cousin)
Rand Brooks as Charles Hamilton (Melanie's brother)
Carroll Nye as Frank Kennedy (the guest)
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
In Atlanta
Laura Hope Crews as Aunt Pittypat Hamilton
Eddie Anderson as Uncle Peter (her coachman)
Harry Davenport as Doctor Meade
Leona Roberts as Mrs. Meade
Jane Darwell as Mrs. Merriwether
Ona Munson as Belle Watling
Minor supporting roles
Paul Hurst as the Yankee deserter
Cammie King Conlon as Bonnie Blue Butler
J.M. Kerrigan as Johnny Gallagher
Jackie Moran as Phil Meade
Lillian Kemble-Cooper as Bonnie's nurse in London
Marcella Martin as Cathleen Calvert
Mickey Kuhn as Beau Wilkes
Irving Bacon as the Corporal
William Bakewell as the mounted officer
Isabel Jewell as Emmie Slattery
Eric Linden as the amputation case
Ward Bond as Tom, the Yankee captain
Cliff Edwards as the reminiscent soldier
Yakima Canutt as the renegade
Louis Jean Heydt as the hungry soldier holding Beau Wilkes
Olin Howland as the carpetbagger businessman
Robert Elliott as the Yankee major
Mary Anderson as Maybelle Merriwether
Awards
Academy Awards for Best Picture (1940): (won)
Academy Awards for Best Actor (1940): Clark Gable (nominated)
Academy Awards for Best Actress (1940): Vivien Leigh (won)
Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (1940): Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (won)
Academy Awards for Best Director (1940): Victor Fleming (won)
Academy Awards for Best Editing (1940): Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (won)
Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (1940): Lyle Wheeler (won)
Academy Awards for Best Music, Orig Dramatic Score (1940): Max Steiner (nominated)
Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects (1940): Jack Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns (nominated)
Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (1940): Hattie McDaniel (won)
Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (1940): Olivia de Havilland (nominated)
Academy Awards for Best Writing, Screenplay (1940): Sidney Howard (won)
AFI 100 Years... series
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – #4
AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – #2
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains
Rhett Butler, Hero – Nominated
Scarlett O'Hara, Hero – Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." – #1
"After all, tomorrow is another day!" – #31
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." – #59
"Fiddle-dee-dee." – Nominated
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – #2
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – #43
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #6
AFI's 10 Top 10 – #4 Epic film
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Scarlett
An eight-hour miniseries based on Alexandra Ripley's novel, "Scarlett," the sequel to "Gone With the Wind." Scarlett O'Hara travels to Ireland to be with family and escape the confusion of her rocky marriage to Rhett Butler.
Separated from Scarlett and seeking a divorce, Rhett is now pursued passionately by his wife, who seeks a reconciliation. Frustrated in her efforts and unwilling to win Rhett by telling him that she is pregnant with their child, Scarlett leaves on a journey from Atlanta to Charleston and Savannah, to London, and then to her ancestral home of Ballyhara in Ireland, where she is caught up in the upheavals of the day. In England, she subsequently stands trial for a murder that she did not commit. In a dramatic climax, Rhett rushes to Scarlett's side, knowing that she needs him and that her life is at stake. Helping to win her acquittal and finally apprised that they have a son, Rhett reunited with Scarlett, conceding that he never stopped loving her.
Release date November 13, 1994
Running time 360 mins
Cast
Joanne Whalley as Scarlett O'Hara
Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler
Stephen Collins as Ashley Wilkes
Sean Bean as Lord Fenton
Esther Rolle as Mammy
Colm Meaney as Colm O'Hara
John Gielgud as Pierre Robillard (Scarlett's maternal grandfather)
Annabeth Gish as Anne Hampton-Butler
Julie Harris as Eleanor Butler (Rhett's mother)
Jean Smart as Sally Brewton
Ray McKinnon as Will Benteen (husband of Scarlett's sister Suellen)
Ann-Margret as Belle Watling
Barbara Barrie as Pauline Robillard (one of Scarlett's spinster aunts)
Paul Winfield as Big Sam
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Gone With the Wind is the epitomy of epic. From Scarlett's first "Fiddle-dee-dee" to Rhett's "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" I am always mesmerized, no matter how many times I watch it and that is quite a few times. I don't really know just what else to say other than I can clearly see why this is celebrating it's 75th anniversary and is still the classic epic today that it was in 1939.
Scarlett, was a decent television mini-series that was cast as good as it could be considering it was long after the death of Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable. Is it on the same wavelength of excellence as it's predecessor? Not at all, but it does the book honor and it shows us what Scarlett decided to do after realizing that "After all, tomorrow is another day."
Scarlett, was a decent television mini-series that was cast as good as it could be considering it was long after the death of Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable. Is it on the same wavelength of excellence as it's predecessor? Not at all, but it does the book honor and it shows us what Scarlett decided to do after realizing that "After all, tomorrow is another day."
Author Bios:
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies. An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
Alexandra Ripley
Alexandra Ripley was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed?. Charleston, her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston, The Time Returns, and New Orleans Legacy. Scarlett received some bad reviews, but was very successful nonetheless. She attended the elite Ashley Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
She died in Richmond, Virginia, and is survived by two daughters from her first marriage to Leonard Ripley, a son in law and granddaughter, Alexandra Elizabeth.
Ripley has also published works under the name B.K. Ripley.
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