![]() ![]() ![]() Mitchell had spent hours as a child listening to the Civil War stories of her uncles and grandparents. Honour and genteel manners are emphasised and, although the Confederacy lost, Gone With The Wind gives them a sense of being right. The film, like the book, takes a sympathetic view of the South in the American Civil War. These included novelist F Scott Fitzgerald who spent much of the time drunk.Įventually, the famed writer Ben Hecht (who was in the middle of writing a Marx Brothers film) shut himself away and, existing on a diet of peanuts and bananas, wrote the entire screenplay in five days. He refused to make cuts and Selznick was forced to try out other writers. The original screenplay was written by playwright Sidney Howard, whose first script would have required at least six hours of film. Turning it into that Oscar-scooping movie – it won 10 – was not without problems. She was killed in a road accident in Atlanta in 1949, having never written another novel and always regretting that Gone With The Wind had been made into a film. But Mitchell was appalled by the film and wanted nothing to do with it. ![]()
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