Unfortunately for him and Scarlett, his failure to deal with his true feelings for her ruins any chance she has for real happiness with Rhett Butler.

Rhett and Scarlett's bedroom scene ( Chapter 54 ) is often read as a rape that was meant to suggest Reconstruction fear of black on white rape in the South.

She wonders if Rhett will kiss her, but to Scarlett's irritation, he does not.

* Captain Rhett K. Butler: Scarlett's admirer and third husband, Rhett is often publicly shunned for his scandalous behavior and sometimes accepted for his charm.

He is " shot through the head ", according to Rhett Butler, while attempting to defend Scarlett's honor after she is attacked.

In the course of the novel, Rhett becomes increasingly enamored with Scarlett's sheer will to survive in the chaos surrounding the war.

Melanie and Rhett continue to have a good relationship, even as his and Scarlett's marriage falls apart.

Then Scarlett meets Rhett Butler, a man who has a reputation as a rogue.

The men are indebted to Rhett for saving them, and his Scallawag reputation among them improves a notch, but the men's wives, with the exception of Melanie, are livid at owing their husbands ' lives to Belle Watling.

Rhett turns his attention towards Bonnie, dotes on her, spoils her, and worries about her reputation when she is older.

The novel describes Rhett as " a visitor from Charleston "; a black sheep, who was expelled from West Point and is not received by any family with reputation in the whole of Charleston, and perhaps all of South Carolina.

As to what became of her star-crossed lovers, Rhett and Scarlett, after the novel ended, Mitchell did not know, and said, " For all I know, Rhett may have found someone else who was less difficult.

Rhett, more drunk than Scarlett has ever seen him, returns home the evening of the party long after Scarlett.

Rhett declares he is not a marrying man and propositions Scarlett to be his mistress, but marries her after the death of Frank Kennedy, explaining that he won't take a chance on losing her to someone else, since it is unlikely she will ever need money again after Frank's death.

* March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, by teenage diver E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.

Other artists signed to the label would include Rhett Akins, Gary Allan, Mark Chesnutt, and Lee Ann Womack ; of these, all but Sears would be shifted to the MCA Nashville roster after parent Universal Music absorbed PolyGram in 1998 and shut down Decca Nashville.

Brenner left after the 1983 non-LP single " My Foolish Friend ", which was produced by frequent Roxy Music collaborator Rhett Davies.

In this sequel Rhett marries Anne Hampton after divorcing Scarlett and he reunites with Scarlett only after Anne dies.

It is Melanie that convinces the grief-stricken Rhett to allow them to bury Bonnie after her death.

He served only from June until December, when after a special election Robert Barnwell Rhett replaced him.

His name was originally Smith, but after entering public life he changed it for that of a prominent colonial ancestor Colonel William Rhett.

The often snarling, bi-pedal black and white Boston Terrier was named after the male lead in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, because " No one loves Scarlett more than Rhett " referencing Rhett Butler's affection for Scarlett O ' Hara ( scarlet is BU's primary color ).

Before Mammy dies she makes Rhett swear to look after " her lamb " Miss Scarlett.

A mutual friend tells her that Anne died of a fever and the baby died four days after its birth and she rushes back to Ballyhara hopeful that Rhett would come looking for her.

The Great Seal of South Carolina was " set " or " affixed " to the Ordinance of Secession of December 20, 1860, at Secession Hall in Charleston shortly after 7: 00 p. m., following which convention delegates signed it, including Robert Barnwell Rhett, as some three thousand South Carolinians watched enthusiastically the proclamation of South Carolina as " a separate, independent nationality.

Then with a loan from Rhett she buys a sawmill and runs the lumber business herself, all very unladylike conduct.

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.

After she becomes widowed again, she marries Rhett Butler for " fun " and because he is very wealthy.

Despite being thrown out of West Point, the Rhett of the novel is obviously very well-educated, referencing everything from Shakespeare to classical history to German philosophy.

Rhett has tremendous respect and ( gradually ) affection for Melanie as a friend, but very little for Ashley.

In 2008, Teledyne Continental's new president, Rhett Ross announced that the company was very concerned about future availability of 100LL avgas and as a result would develop a diesel engine in the range for certification in 2009 or 2010.

While the studio and the public agreed that the part of Rhett Butler should go to Clark Gable ( except for Clark Gable himself ), casting for the role of Scarlett was a little harder.

In the 1939 film version of Gone with the Wind, for the role of Rhett Butler, Clark Gable was an almost immediate favorite for both the public and producer David O. Selznick ( except for Gable himself ).

Rhett sarcastically asks her if the father is Ashley.

When Bonnie is born Rhett showers her with the attention that Scarlett will no longer allow him to give to her and is a devoted, even doting and overindulgent, father.

In this novel Belle Watling's son plays an important role ; in the end he is revealed to be another man's son even though he believed Rhett was his father.

Born to a respected family of Charleston, Rhett was disinherited by his father when he refused to marry according to the latter's wishes.

One of these is Conde ( count ) de Serra Negra, who is locally considered the father of Lawrence of Arabia and Rhett Butler, who is said to be buried there.

Her mother was Isabelle Murdoch, an immigrant from Liverpool, England, and her father was Edmund M. Rhett, an army officer and engineer based in Savannah.

However, Rhett gets Gerald drunk and they come to terms.

Mardo's desires are similar to those of Rhett Butler in his ardent pursuit of Scarlett O ' Hara in Mitchell's epic novel, Gone with the Wind.

She remarked to a journalist, " I've cast myself as Scarlett O ' Hara "; and The Observer film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh " stunned us all " with the assertion that Olivier " won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O ' Hara.

A contract was even drawn up to lend them out for the roles of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone with the Wind, but that prospect failed to materialise.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

The use of " damn " in Rhett Butler's parting line to Scarlett O ' Hara in the film Gone with the Wind in 1939 challenged sensitivities at the time.

Cat, Scarlett O ' Hara's illegitimate daughter by Rhett, is thought to be a changeling.

Outside of the soap opera medium, the supercouple title has proliferated as a way of referring to certain fictional couples from primetime television dramas and film, such as Gone with the Wind, whose Rhett Butler and Scarlett O ' Hara characters popularized the catchphrase " Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Other classic romances such as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O ' Hara from Gone with the Wind and Tony and Maria from West Side Story remain two of cinema's most beloved couples.

General Hospital received cover stories in both People, Soap Opera Weekly, and Newsweek, which referred to Luke and Laura as the “ Rhett Butler and Scarlett O ' Hara of Soapland .” Included in the show ’ s fan base were celebrities Elizabeth Taylor and Sammy Davis, Jr., both of whom guest starred on the series.

: Scarlett and Dean's names were inspired by Scarlett O ' Hara and Rhett Butler from the novel Gone with the Wind.

It was adapted as a television mini-series of the same title in 1994 starring Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O ' Hara.

It was adapted as a television mini-series of the same title in 1994 starring Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O ' Hara.