My 150 Favorite Movies - #56
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The mother of all cinematic classics, GWTW sits at the pinnacle of that peak cinema year, 1939. Based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, it tells the story of Becky Sharp, I mean, Scarlett O'Hara, Southern belle, before, during and just after the Civil War. Volumes written about this film could fill whole libraries (especially entertaining, Memo From David O. Selznick). This film made a star out of then little known British actress Vivien Leigh, cemented Clark Gable's reputation as permanent superstar, and it won all, or almost all the prizes, including the first ever acting Oscar for an African American, Hattie McDaniel, and deservedly so. Still widely viewed 70+ years later, may it live on in the hearts of moviegoers, forever.
The mother of all cinematic classics, GWTW sits at the pinnacle of that peak cinema year, 1939. Based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, it tells the story of Becky Sharp, I mean, Scarlett O'Hara, Southern belle, before, during and just after the Civil War. Volumes written about this film could fill whole libraries (especially entertaining, Memo From David O. Selznick). This film made a star out of then little known British actress Vivien Leigh, cemented Clark Gable's reputation as permanent superstar, and it won all, or almost all the prizes, including the first ever acting Oscar for an African American, Hattie McDaniel, and deservedly so. Still widely viewed 70+ years later, may it live on in the hearts of moviegoers, forever.
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