Gone with the Wind (1939)

Taglines:

The greatest romance of all time! See more »

Parents Guide:

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Official Sites:

Warner Bros. [United States] | Add/edit official sites  »

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 January 1940 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Lo que el viento se llevó See more »

Filming Locations:

Agoura Hills, California, USA See more »

Budget:

$3,977,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$1,192,593 (USA) (28 June 1998) (214 Screens) (reissue)

Gross:

$390,500,000 (Worldwide) (December 2003)

Production Co:

Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »

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Runtime:

USA: 238 min (restored DVD version)  | Sweden: 223 min (1969 re-release)  | Sweden: 234 min (1985 re-release)  | UK: 224 min (1994 re-release)  | UK: 233 min (1989 re-release)  | 226 min (copyright length)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Trivia

Nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any role in the dismissal of director George Cukor. Rather, they show Selznick's mounting dissatisfaction with Cukor's slow pace and quality of work. Almost half of Cukor's scenes were scrapped or later re-shot by others. From a private letter from journalist Susan Myrick to Margaret Mitchell in February 1939: "George [Cukor] finally told me all about it. He hated [leaving the production] very much he said but he could not do otherwise. In effect he said he is an honest craftsman and he cannot do a job unless he knows it is a good job and he feels the present job is not right. For days, he told me he has looked at the rushes and felt he was failing... the things did not click as it should. Gradually he became convinced that the script was the trouble... So George just told David he would not work any longer if the script was not better and he wanted the [Sidney] Howard script back... he would not let his name go out over a lousy picture... And bull-headed David said 'OK get out!'" Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor ("a very expensive luxury") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming. "I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it.... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts... ." See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When Big Sam is supposed to be driving Scarlett away from her attackers at Shantytown, the aerial shot shows he is not in the cart. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow.
Stuart Tarleton: War! Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually *want* a war?
Brent Tarleton: We'll show 'em!
Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war.
Brent Tarleton: Not going to be any war?
Stuart Tarleton: Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war.
Scarlett: If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
Brent Tarleton: But Scarlett, honey...
Stuart Tarleton: Don't you *want* us to have a war?
[...]
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Crazy Credits

George Reeves is credited as playing the part of Brent Tarleton, and Fred
Crane is billed as Stuart Tarleton. This is incorrect: Crane played Brent,
and Reeves played Stuart. See more »

Connections

Referenced in "Project Runway: Wall to Wall Fashion (#3.1)" (2006) See more »

Soundtracks

"Under the Willow She's Sleeping"
(1860 (uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
In the score for Tara scenes See more »