Cukor directed her in several films, both successful ( Little Women, 1933 ) and disastrous ( Sylvia Scarlett, 1935 ), and they became close friends off the set.

The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

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.

Scarlett O ' Hara uses the title phrase when she wonders to herself if her home on a plantation called " Tara " is still standing or if it is " gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia.

The growth and education of Scarlett O ' Hara is influenced by the events of her time.

She recognizes her freedom to come and go as she pleases saying, " Ah is free, Miss Scarlett.

For young Scarlett, the ideal southern belle is represented by her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

The Southern belle was bred to conform to a subspecies of the nineteenth-century " lady "... For Scarlett, the ideal is embodied in her adored mother, the saintly Ellen, whose back is never seen to rest against the back of any chair on which she sits, whose broken spirit everywhere is mistaken for righteous calm ...

Scarlett, the figure of a pampered southern belle, lives through an extreme reversal of fortune and wealth, and survives to rebuild Tara and her self-esteem.

Scarlett's bad belle traits, her deceitfulness, shrewdness, manipulativeness, and superficiality, in contrast to Melanie's good belle traits, trust, self-sacrifice, and loyalty, enable Scarlett to survive in the post-war South, and pursue her main interest, making money.

In one interpretation of the scene, the " dandified dangerous lover " carries Scarlett up the stairs into her first encounter with the erotic.

Miss Scarlett learns that one of her many beaux, Ashley Wilkes, is soon to be engaged to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton.

The following day at the Wilkeses ' barbecue at " Twelve Oaks ," Scarlett informs Ashley she loves him and Ashley admits he cares for her.

Scarlett is pregnant with her first child.

Scarlett is despondent as a result of the restrictions placed upon her.

" In the chaos, Scarlett, left to fend for herself, cries for the comfort and safety of her mother and Tara.

Scarlett makes her way to Tara without him where she is welcomed on the steps by her father, Gerald.

Scarlett knows only one man who has enough money to help her pay the taxes, Rhett Butler.

Soon realizing Frank also has money, Scarlett hatches a plot and tells Frank that Suellen has changed her mind about marrying him.

" Always wanting Scarlett to be happy and radiant, Frank gives her the money to pay the taxes on Tara.

Much to Frank's relief, Scarlett learns she is pregnant, which curtails her activities for awhile.

On one evening when she is coming home from the mill, Scarlett is accosted by two men who attempt to rob her, but she escapes with the help of Big Sam, the former negro foreman from Tara.

* Eugenie Victoria " Bonnie Blue " Butler: Scarlett and Rhett's beloved, pretty, strong-willed daughter, as Irish in looks and temper as Gerald O ' Hara, with the same blue eyes.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

Of the servants that stayed on at Tara, Scarlett thinks to herself, " There were qualities of loyalty and tirelessness and love in them that no strain could break, no money could buy.

Scarlett encounters Rhett Butler again at a dance for the Confederacy.

Everyone at the dance is shocked that Rhett would bid for Scarlett, the widow still dressed in black.

There is the ever present threat of the Yankees who steal and burn, and at one point, Scarlett kills a Yankee marauder with a single shot from Charles's pistol leaving " a bloody pit where the nose had been.

While Frank has a cold and is being pampered by Aunt Pittypat, Scarlett goes over the accounts at Frank's store and finds many of his friends owe him money.

On the day Rhett arrives home, Scarlett waits for him at the top of the stairs.

" At that comment, Scarlett lunges at Rhett, but he side steps and she tumbles backwards down the stairs.

Though she misses the old Rhett at times, Scarlett is content to leave well enough alone.

* Katie Scarlett ( O ' Hara ) Hamilton Kennedy Butler: The protagonist of the novel, Scarlett's forthright Irish blood is always at variance with the French teachings of style from her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

Earlier in the novel, in an intended rape at Shantytown ( Chapter 44 ), Scarlett is attacked by a black man and saved by another black man, Big Sam.

The Scarletts and the Barretts had been friends for many years in Jamaica, and it seems natural that James Scarlett would have been selected to keep an eye on young Moulton, while the boy was at school in England.

His second son was General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, leader of the heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava.

JIC members John Scarlett and Sir Richard Dearlove ( then head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service ) gave evidence to the Inquiry in which they argued that the words used in the dossier were consistent with their assessment of the intelligence available at the time.

Selznick, who watched her performance that month in Fire Over England and A Yank at Oxford, thought her to be excellent but in no way a possible Scarlett, as she was " too British ".

Caine with Scarlett Johansson at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2008

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.

However, one author has observed that McDaniel's character is not far off from the persona of Mammy that Margaret Mitchell created in the book, that in both the film and the book the much younger Scarlett speaks to Mammy in a way that would be unacceptable for a Southern teen of that era to speak to a much older white person, and that neither the book nor the film make any hint to Mammy's own children ( dead or alive ), her own family ( dead or alive ) or her desires to have anything other than her life at Tara serving on a slave plantation.

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.

Scarlett was an unusually high-profile appointment to the job, and gave evidence at the Hutton Inquiry.

Rhett Butler, an older bachelor, overhears Scarlett expressing her true feelings to Ashley, during a barbecue at Ashley's home.