Gone with the Wind (1939)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell.

Release Date : 1939–12–15

Runtime : 03:53:36

Genres : Drama, Romance, War

Production Company : Selznick International Pictures

Production Countries : United States of America

Casts : Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell

Plot Keywords : southern usa, loss of loved one, marriage proposal, atlanta, plantation, typhus, business woman, marriage crisis, american civil war, old south, early america

In 1861, on the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett O’Hara lives at Tara, her family’s cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters and their many slaves. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes, whom she secretly loves, is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley’s home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks. At the Twelve Oaks party, Scarlett makes an advance on Ashley, but instead catches the attention of another guest, Rhett Butler. The barbecue is disrupted by news of the declaration of war, and the men rush to enlist. In a bid to arouse jealousy in Ashley, Scarlett marries Melanie’s younger brother Charles before he leaves to fight. Following Charles’s death while serving in the Confederate Army, Scarlett’s mother sends her to the Hamilton home in Atlanta, where she creates a scene by attending a charity bazaar in her mourning attire and waltzing with Rhett, now a blockade runner for the Confederacy. The tide of war turns against the Confederacy after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which many of the men of Scarlett’s town are killed. Eight months later, as the city is besieged by the Union Army in the Atlanta Campaign, Melanie gives birth with Scarlett’s aid, and Rhett helps them flee the city. Once out of the city, Rhett chooses to go off to fight, leaving Scarlett to make her own way back to Tara. Upon her return home, Scarlett finds Tara deserted, except for her father, her sisters, and two former slaves: Mammy and Pork. Scarlett learns that her mother has just died of typhoid fever and her father has become senile. With Tara pillaged by Union troops and the fields untended, Scarlett vows she will do anything for the survival of her family and herself.

Categories:

• 1939 films
• English-language films
• Works based on Gone with the Wind
• 1930s historical films
• 1930s romantic drama films
• American films
• American Civil War films
• American epic films
• Epic films based on actual events
• American romantic drama films
• Best Picture Academy Award winners
• Culture of Atlanta
• Films scored by Max Steiner
• Films about American slavery
• American films about revenge
• Films based on American novels
• Films directed by Victor Fleming
• Films featuring a Best Actress Academy Award-winning performance
• Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award-winning performance
• Films produced by David O. Selznick
• Films set in Georgia (U.S. state)
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• History of the United States (1918–45)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
• Films about rape
• Romantic epic films
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• American historical romance films
• Lost Cause of the Confederacy
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