Gone with the Wind - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Gone with the Wind or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Gone with the Wind

[addison]

As Scarlett is described in the book as having green eyes, Vivien Leigh's eye color was manually corrected in post-production from their natural blue to green.

[ella]

Half a million feet of film were shot. This was all edited down to 20,000 feet.

[jessie]

In a 2003 poll contacted by the BBC about the favorite novels of the British reading public, "Gone with the Wind" came in 21st. The only novels which did better were (in order): "The Lord of the Rings" by J'RR Tolkien', "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J.K. Rowling, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "Winnie the Pooh" by A.A. Milne, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, "Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks, "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott, "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis de Bernières and "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.

[norma]

Both of Margaret Mitchell's grandfathers were Confederate veterans. Paternal grandfather Russell Crawford Mitchell served in the Texas Brigade, often referred to as Hood's Brigade. After being severely wounded in battle, he spent the rest of the war as a male nurse. Her maternal grandfather John Stephens was a captain in the Confederate Army.

[caroline]

Came first in the UK's Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas, with an estimated two-thirds of the UK's population going to see it

[bessie]

Billie Burke (best remembered today as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939)) was considered for Aunt Pittypat Hamilton, but the producers thought she was too young (she was 54).

[linda]

At nearly four hours long, this is the longest running of all motion pictures to win the prestigious Academy Award for Best Picture.

[edgar]

Besides the film, the novel "Gone with the Wind" has received other adaptations. Among them are the Japanese-British theatrical musical "Scarlett" (1970), the Japanese theatrical musical with an all-female cast "Kaze to Tomo ni Sarinu" (1977), the French theatrical musical "Autant en Emporte le Vent" (2003), the Hungarian ballet of the same name (2007), the British theatrical musical "Gone with the Wind" (2008), and the Canadian theatrical version of the same name (2013).

[russell]

The first rough cut in July 1939 ran 4-1/2 hours--48 minutes longer than the final release.

[miriam]

Production began with Robert Gleckler playing Jonas Wilkerson. After a month of filming, Gleckler died. His scenes were re-shot with replacement cast member Victor Jory.

[ethel]

Olivia de Havilland, who has been the lone survivor of the four principal leads since the death of Vivien Leigh in 1967, was the only major cast member to live to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the picture's premiere on December 15, 2009.

[claude]

The New York City premiere at the Capitol Theatre on 19 December 1939 was telecast on NBC's experimental television station W2XBS, the first film premiere to be so documented.

[victoria]

In the film it is the death of his wife that causes Gerald O'Hara to lose his mind. The novel offers additional reasons: hopelessness, poverty, old age and an increasing reliance on whiskey.

[morris]

The early scene where Mammy reprimands Scarlett for not eating is one of the few remaining in the final film shot by original director George Cukor.

[wallace]

One month after the book was published, David O. Selznick purchased the movie rights from Margaret Mitchell for an unprecedented $50,000. At the time it was the highest sum that had ever been paid for an author's first novel. Realizing he had underpaid Mitchell, Selznick gave her an additional $50,000 as a bonus when he dissolved Selznick-International Pictures in 1942.

[sophie]

Besides English-language sequels and derivative works of "Gone with the Wind", there are foreign-language unauthorized sequels. Among them are Russian and Hungarian series by multiple authors.

[chris]

In the first hospital scene the wounded Confederate says he lost track of his brother after the battle of Bull Run. The Confederates referred to those two battles as Manassas, never as Bull Run. Yankees named many battles after bodies of water, Southerners named battles after towns or features of the land.

[javier]

Gerald O'Hara was born in County Wicklow, Ireland on June 2, 1801 and died on November 14, 1865.

[leo]

Betty Compson, Binnie Barnes, Evelyn Brent, Una Merkel, Glenda Farrell, Esther Muir and Ann Dvorak were among the actresses tested for the role of Belle Watling.