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4->''"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."''
5-->-- '''Rhett Butler'''
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7''Gone with the Wind'' is a 1939 romantic [[Creator/MetroGoldwynmayer MGM]]-[=produced=] {{epic|Movie}} about Scarlett O'Hara, an indomitable and ruthless SouthernBelle, stretching from just before UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar through much of the Reconstruction era. Adjusted for inflation, it is the highest-grossing movie of all time.
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9Both the source novel and the studios of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood tended to romanticize the South, and so this is one of the most romantic films ever made whether you want it to be or not. Still, the movie was ''somewhat'' progressive for its time -- it gave several roles to African American actors when Hollywood was trying its best to [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode push them out]], and Creator/HattieMcDaniel's win for Best Supporting Actress was the first Oscar given to a black person.
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11Produced by David O. Selznick and filmed between December 1938 and November 1939 (having been in development since just after the book's publication in 1936) and released in December 1939 in glorious Technicolor, it starred Creator/VivienLeigh as Scarlett, Creator/ClarkGable as Rhett, Creator/OliviaDeHavilland as Melanie and Creator/LeslieHoward as Ashley. Interestingly, director Creator/VictorFleming[[note]]Fleming took over as director after Creator/GeorgeCukor was fired, though some of Cukor's scenes remain in the film, and another director, Sam Wood, took over for two weeks while Fleming temporarily withdrew due to exhaustion from nonstop work[[/note]] was also the director of another legendary Technicolor film from that year -- ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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13The original novel was written by Margaret Mitchell, and its massive popularity naturally led to demands for a sequel, even after Mitchell's death in 1949. In 1991 Mitchell's estate licensed Alexandra Ripley to write the {{continuation}} novel ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}'', which was adapted into a Creator/{{CBS}} miniseries three years later. There's also two licensed prequels -- ''Rhett Butler's People'', telling the original story from Rhett's perspective, and has a different ending to ''Scarlett'', and ''Ruth's Journey'', about the life of Ruth, aka "Mammy". Then there was the ''unofficial'' sequel ''The Winds of Tara'', which was published in Australia to get around copyright law. Bear in mind that this has ''another'' ending for those who are not happy with ''Scarlett'' or ''Rhett Butler's People''. And finally, there is Alice Randall's ''Literature/TheWindDoneGone'', written in African-American Vernacular English from the point of view of Scarlett's mixed-race half-sister Cynara, whom she never notices in the original novel, and whom Rhett himself takes as a lover. The Mitchell estate sued Randall, but the case was dropped when the court ruled it was protected under the First Amendment as a {{Parody}}. (In the strict legal sense as a commentary on the original. It is very much ''not'' a comedy.) Notably, none of the original book's characters are explicitly named, only referred to by initials and nicknames.
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15It is UsefulNotes/TedTurner's favorite movie, and it was the first broadcast program on both Creator/{{TNT}} and Creator/{{TCM}}; a theater at the CNN Center also played it for many years until it was taken out and replaced by additional newsroom space for CNN's web operations.
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17In 2008, a musical production ran on the West End in London. It was savaged by the critics and closed early.
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19!!Frankly, my dear, I don't list a Trope:
20[[index]]
21* [[GoneWithTheWind/GoneWithTheWindTropesNoToD # to D]]
22* [[GoneWithTheWind/GoneWithTheWindTropesEToH E to H]]
23* [[GoneWithTheWind/GoneWithTheWindTropesIToL I to L]]
24* [[GoneWithTheWind/GoneWithTheWindTropesMToR M to R]]
25* [[GoneWithTheWind/GoneWithTheWindTropesSToZ S to Z]]
26[[/index]]

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