Day 34: Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind:1938: Winner of the 12th Academy Award

Starring:

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes

Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton

Hattie McDaniel as Mammy

Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara

Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara

Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara

Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara

George Reeves as Stuart Tarleton

Fred Crane as Brent Tarleton

Oscar Polk as Pork

Butterfly McQueen as Prissy

Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson

Howard Hickman as John Wilkes

Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes

You will at one point in your life watch this movie. Guaranteed, if you don’t watch it at school then you shall watch it on AMC. If you don’t have cable you will most surely see it on Netflix. And if you don’t have that you may watch it on some other movie. Maybe not all of it but enough to strike your fancy and so then you shall watch it in entirety. I watched it when I was 13 after I read “Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” The movie was so riveting and so new for its  time no wonder it won a bajillion awards. Although true “The Wizard of Oz” was also nominated for the Best Picture award it lost. There was no competition for this.  This movie not only sweeps in awards it sweeps in time. It also provided America with it’s exit line. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”  Rhett Butler don’t we all want him, nobody wanted that pansy of an Ashley! Scarlett was out of her damn jealous mind. And Milly that kind hearted soul.  The story of how the civil war riveted the south how it changed it people and the struggle of one beautiful girl who with determination and a helping of ugly prevailed and got to keep her land.

It also won awards for:

Best Director: Victor Fleming

Best Actress :Vivien Leigh

Best Adapted Screenplay: Sidney Howard

Awarded posthumously

Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel

Received a miniature "Oscar" statuette on a plaque

Best Cinematography, Color: Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan

Best Film Editing :Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom

Received a miniature "Oscar" statuette on a plaque, replaced with a regular statuette in 1962

Best Art Directiion : Lyle Wheeler