Bartel - The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More, 2nd Edition

The Movie and More

second edition

Pauline Bartel

TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING

Lanham Boulder New York Toronto Plymouth, UK

Published by Taylor Trade Publishing

An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield

4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706

www.rowman.com

10 Thornbury Road, Plymouth PL6 7PP, United Kingdom

Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK

Copyright 2014 by Pauline Bartel

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bartel, Pauline C.

The complete Gone with the wind trivia book : the movie and more / Pauline Bartel. Second edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-58979-820-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-58979-821-2 (electronic) 1. Gone with the wind (Motion picture) 2. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Motion pictures and the war. 3. OHara, Scarlett (Fictitious character) I. Title.

PN1997.G59B37 2014

791.43'72dc23

2014007097

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

Printed in the United States of America

Again, for George

Contents

Acknowledgments

I thank the members of the Arnold Madison Writing Group for the support and encouragement they have shown me through the years, especially Joyce Bouyea, Jackie Craven, David Drotar, the late Kate Kunz, Joanne McFadden, Jane Streiff, and Donna Tomb.

I appreciate the special assistance provided by Karen DeMartino, Peter Michael Franzese, Barbara Ann Heegan, Jane Eskridge Thomas, and the Waterford Public Library. I am grateful to the wonderful staff at Rowman & Littlefield / Taylor Trade Publishing, especially Candace Johnson, Kalen Landow, Rick Rinehart, Jehanne Schweitzer, and Karie Simpson.

I remain eternally grateful to my mother, who talked a reluctant teenage daughter into seeing Gone With the Wind with her on a cold, snowy December afternoon. That changed everything. Thanks, Mom.

Introduction

There has never been a picture like David O. Selznicks Gone With the Wind .

So wrote Kate Cameron, a Daily News movie critic, in her four-star review of the films premiere in New York City on December 19, 1939. Her colleague at the paper, Wanda Hale, also awarded four stars to Gone With the Wind . And millions still agree. Today, this Academy Awardwinning, box-office champion remains one of the most popular, best-loved movies in history.

Gone With the Wind celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014. In honor of this cinematic milestone, I offer an updated edition of this book that will surprise and entertain any GWTW fan. The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More proves that GWTW is more than a film: it is a phenomenon. And the wonder of GWTW continues to the present day:

• The novel has sold more than thirty million copies in more than forty languages and still sells more than 75,000 copies in print and electronic formats every year.
• A recent Harris Poll ranked GWTW Americas second-favorite book, behind the Bible, and Americas #1 favorite movie of all time.
• The film holds its #1 spot on the list of all-time movie moneymakers with $1.64 billion in adjusted gross income.
• GWTW also remains #1 on the list of all-time ticket sales with more than 202 million tickets sold in North America.
• The American Film Institute ranked GWTW in the top ten on its 100 Years... 100 Movies tenth anniversary list.

Through the updated edition of The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book , you can explore the GWTW phenomenon from the writing and publishing of Margaret Mitchells novel through the Hollywood frenzy of transforming the book into film. You can guess who spoke quotable quotes from the movie and the television miniseries, and you can experience the countrys reactions as GWTW and Scarlett swept across America. The book takes you right up to present day, when appetites of fans have been whetted by the novels seventy-fifth birthday and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the film.

In this new edition, youll learn all about:

• The films fiftieth anniversary celebration in 1989, reuniting eleven original cast members for Atlanta celebrations and the world premiere of a digitally remastered version of Gone With the Wind .
• The publication of Scarlett , the long-anticipated sequel to the novel, which earned praise as one of the fastest-selling books and scorn as one of the years worst reads.
• The drama of the two-year, worldwide search for an actress to play Scarlett in the 1994 television miniseries, trouble on the set during filming, and the sneak-peek fiasco that brought laughterand boosfrom television critics.
• The discovery and publication of Lost Laysen a South Pacific romance containing the literary seeds of Gone with the Wind written by a sixteen-year-old Margaret Mitchell, given as a gift to a suitor, and forgotten about for nearly eighty years.
• The saga of the second sequel to Gone with the Wind : the first writer was fired, the second writer nixed the deal, and the third writer finally delivered the goods.
• Atlantas Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, the apartment building where the author gave birth to Scarlett OHara; its Phoenix-like rise after two suspicious fires; and its designation as a national Literary Landmark.
• The reconstruction and opening of Clark Gables birthplace in Cadiz, Ohio, as a landmark and as a site for annual celebrations of the actors birth.
• The bombshell news that Loretta Young, who auditioned for the role of Scarlett, confirmed before her death that her adopted daughter was her biological child by Clark Gable.
• The legal battle over the publication of The Wind Done Gone , a novel reinterpreting Margaret Mitchells story from the point of view of Scarletts mixed-race half sister.
• The discovery of the typescript of the last four chapters of Margaret Mitchells novel thought to have been destroyed after the authors death.
• The after Gone With the Wind lives of the films remaining cast members.
• The restoration work on three original Gone With the Wind costumes in time for the films seventy-fifth anniversary; and much, much more.

What makes me such a GWTW expert? I was blown away by The Wind at the age of sixteen when, during Christmas vacation from school, I accompanied my mother to see the films latest reissue. On that afternoon in 1968, I fell in love with this spectacular story of indomitable will and indestructible spirit. And so began my dream of one day visiting Margaret Mitchells hometown. But little did I imagine the manner in which that dream would come true twenty-one years later.

On December 9, 1989, my Delta flight arrived at Hartsfield International Airport. I was thrilled to be in Atlanta, but I wasnt there as just a tourist. As the author of the first edition of The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book , I was part of the weeklong celebration of the movies fiftieth anniversary.