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:

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.

Scarlett is a sequel to Gone with the Wind, also and also takes place briefly in Clayton County.

Sara, Dave, Mark, Mr. Gone and Norbert band together to rescue Julie from Iago, who kidnaps her and takes her into Sara's outback.

Gone are most of the bombastic string sections and orchestral influence, Pigmartyr takes a turn toward the hard rock side, and has a much more raw and stripped down feel.

Later, Bugs flees into a mansion, where he disguises himself as Scarlett O ' Hara ( from Gone with the Wind ), and when Sam searches the mansion for Yankees, he takes a cannon explosion looking inside a closet.

Between takes on Gone with the Wind, she made sketches and drawings of her fellow actors.

* Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck, takes place and was filmed in Boston.

On the other side is the situation was in 1900, after four years of McKinley's leadership: " Gone Republican: a run to the bank, American rule in Cuba " ( the Spanish – American War took place in 1898 ).

" Six of the group's next seven albums between 1961 and 1963 continued to place in Billboard's Top Ten and several of the group's most successful singles, including " Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

How Fifi escaped is unknown, though some imply that this took place before " Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow ".

It is known as the place where Bill Oddie did much of his early birdwatching, and features in his books ( notably Bill Oddie's Gone Birding ) and television programmes.

His ode, D ' Aithle Na bhFileadh ( The High Poets are Gone ) upon the death of a fellow poet is a particularly poignant reminder of this decline and lament that Ireland was now a far less educated place due to it.

It covers 46 hectares of countryside and it is well known as the place where Bill Oddie did a lot of his early birdwatching, and features in his books ( notably Bill Oddie's Gone Birding ) and television programmes.

Drummer Trey Sabatelli came in his place and with the strength of this new line-up, Keith Karloff managed to gave birth to " The Gone Jackals ", the final incarnation of the band.

* The song or its melody has also been used in many movie soundtracks, including Cavalcade, 1933 Gone with the Wind, 1939 ( a Confederate military band plays it in the background of a scene taking place in Atlanta ); The Great Dictator, 1940 ; Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 ; Stalag 17, 1953 ( it is sung by American prisoners of war ); The Horse Soldiers, 1959 ; How The West Was Won, 1962 ; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964 ; The Crazies, 1973 ; Born on the Fourth of July 1989 ; Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 ; The Second Civil War, 1997 ; and Antz, 1998.

Gone were the troublesome silk shutter straps ; in their place were straps made of nylon ; a flash synch was added ; and the body's size and weight were reduced.

Gone were the familiar legions, cohorts and alae of old Rome, and in their place were small infantry battalions or horse regiments called a tagma or numerus.