Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

* 1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.

* 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

It failed to win any Oscars partly because of the number of other major pictures that were nominated that year, including The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by Selznick in 1936, even before the book was published.

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from an auto-crash injury that refused to heal.

" Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.

Margaret Mitchell arranged Gone with the Wind chronologically, basing it on the life and experiences of the main character, Scarlett O ' Hara, as she grew from adolescence into adulthood.

Slavery in Gone with the Wind is a backdrop to a story that is essentially about other things.

Southern plantation fiction ( also known as Anti-Tom literature ) from the early 19th century culminating in Gone with the Wind is written from the perspective and values of the slaveholder and tends to present slaves as docile and happy.

The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork, Prissy, and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free.

Eighteen years prior to the publication of Gone with the Wind, an article titled, " The Old Black Mammy ," written in the Confederate Veteran in 1918, discussed the romanticized view of the mammy character that had been passed on in literature of the South:

Uncle Tom's Cabin is mentioned briefly in Gone with the Wind as being accepted by the Yankees as, " revelation second only to the Bible ".

The enduring interest of both Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone with the Wind has resulted in lingering stereotypes of 19th century African American slaves.

However, since its publication, Gone with the Wind has become a reference point for subsequent writers about the South, both black and white alike.

The battles mentioned or depicted in Gone with the Wind are:

Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) and the Reconstruction Era ( 1865 – 1877 ) that followed the war.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

Gone with the Wind expresses the true horrors of war.

One criticism leveled at Gone with the Wind is for its portrayal of African Americans in the 19th century South.

No doubt it is indeed unfortunate that Gone with the Wind perpetuates many myths about Reconstruction, particularly with respect to blacks.

In Gone with the Wind, Mitchell is blind to racial oppression and " the inseparability of race and gender " that defines the southern belle character of Scarlett.

* Dog Gone Modern ( 1939 )

Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong ( 1933 ), Little Women ( 1933 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

In 1939, Steiner was borrowed from Warner Bros. by David O Selznick to compose the score to Gone with the Wind.

* Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and the film – " Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn ", said in 1939, was among the first uses of profanity in a major American film.

Leigh in the trailer for Gone with the Wind ( 1939 )

Hollywood was in the midst of a widely publicized search to find an actress to portray Scarlett O ' Hara in David O. Selznick's production of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

Leone was also an avid fan of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind and the 1939 film adaptation.

On March 29, 1939, during a break in production on Gone with the Wind, Gable and Lombard drove out to Kingman, Arizona and were married in a ceremony with only Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler, in attendance.

Shearer was also one of the many actresses considered for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone With The Wind ( 1939 ).

He is best known for having produced Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and Rebecca ( 1940 ), both of which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture.

His successes continued with classics such as The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ), A Star Is Born ( 1937 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ), The Young in Heart ( 1938 ), Made for Each Other ( 1939 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ) and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), which remains the highest grossing film of all time ( adjusted for inflation ).

The first was Victor Fleming for his 1939 films Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

TNT, as a cable service, was launched with a showing of the 1939 classic movie Gone with the Wind ( to which Ted Turner had acquired the rights ), on October 3, 1988.

Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and roles in Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ), The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Pygmalion ( 1938 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ) and The First of the Few ( 1942 ).

Howard is perhaps best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind ( 1939 ), but he was uncomfortable with Hollywood and returned to England to help with the Second World War effort.

Allegedly, Joan Fontaine, de Havilland's sister, was approached by George Cukor to audition for Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

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She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).