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.

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.

In 2005, Gerald Casale announced his " solo " project, Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers ( the Evildoers themselves including the other members of Devo ), and released the first EP, Army Girls Gone Wild in 2006.

* 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.

All first season episodes that had been remastered and aired were available from iTunes, except " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", which remains in its original form.

Waits released Real Gone, his first nontheatrical studio album since Mule Variations, in 2004.

* May 30 – Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is first published.

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At the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, the fictional character Rhett Butler warns a group of upper-class secessionists of the folly of war with the North in terms very reminiscent of those Sherman directed to David F. Boyd before leaving Louisiana.

The band released " You're Gone " as the lead single from the album, which reached No. 7, making it the first Marillion song to reach the UK Top Ten since " Incommunicado " in 1987 and the band's first Top 40 entry since " Beautiful " in 1995.

The first paperback edition was an Ace Books double novel along with Roger Dee's An Earth Gone Mad ; The Stars, Like Dust was retitled The Rebellious Stars for this edition without Asimov's consent.

She received her first Oscar nomination for the role, but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind.

Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) was one of the first live action films to be completely storyboarded.

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

In particular there is a running gag suggesting that French and Saunders are unable to accurately affect accents ; this first appeared in their spoof of Gone with the Wind when they break their character in the middle of an elaborate and expensive parody to argue about the authenticity of their Southern accent.

The album generated two Top 40 singles: " Already Gone " and their first Number One, " Best of My Love ".

The album itself differs significantly from the first pre-release version of it that had circulated: the songs " Us ", " Deeper ", " Don't Pass Me By ", " Too Far Gone ", " Northern Lights ", and " Loser Like Me " were cut, and " Down and Out of Time ", " A Million Parachutes ", " Tonight ", " Waiting on the Sun ", and a cover of Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over " were added.

Margaret Mitchell never wrote another book after her first novel, Gone With the Wind, was a smash best-seller.

In November 1996 " When You're Gone " was released as a single in the United States, peaking at 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, thereby becoming the second single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 from the album ; the first was " Free To Decide ".

Entries came in from writers who were later to become well-known, including Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Andrew J. Offutt, whose story " And Gone Tomorrow ", about a man unexpectedly sent a hundred years into the future, won first prize and appeared in the December 1954 issue of If.

One may think the song is about love on first inspection ; however, upon deeper analysis the listener realizes that the real story is about prostitution ( Pearl of the Quarter ), incest (" Cousin Dupree "), pedophilia ( Everyone's Gone to the Movies ), or some other socially unacceptable subject.

The Four Seasons released their first single in 1961 (" Bermuda "/" Spanish Lace " on Gone Records ).

On August 7, 2008, he played his first post-rehab electric show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY debuting: " Alaska "( electric version ; the song was debuted acoustic at Rothbury ), " Peggy ", " Gone ", " Backwards Down the Number Line " ( electric version ; the song was debuted acoustic at Rothbury ), " Valentine ", " Greyhound Rising ", and " Light ".

In 2000 they released the " Angel Gone " single, their first new release in eight years.