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Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
Gone with the Wind is the book that S. E. Hinton's runaway teenage characters, Ponyboy and Johnny, read while hiding from the law in the young adult novel The Outsiders (1967). [145] A film parody titled "Went with the Wind!" aired in a 1976 episode of The Carol Burnett Show. [146]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. 1939 film by Victor Fleming Gone with the Wind Theatrical release poster Directed by Victor Fleming Screenplay by Sidney Howard Based on Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Produced by David O. Selznick Starring Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland ...
Scarlett O'Hara is the oldest living child of Gerald O'Hara and Ellen O'Hara (née Robillard). She was born in 1845 on her family's plantation Tara in Georgia.She was named Katie Scarlett, after her father's mother, but is always called Scarlett, except by her father, who refers to her as "Katie Scarlett". [4]
Though King's acting career only spanned a few years, she appeared in two of the biggest films of the era, Gone with the Wind and Bambi.She landed the part of Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With the Wind at the age of four, after casting directors had tested 250 applicants for the role, including her seven-year-old sister Diane.
Olivia de Havilland, an iconic actress during Hollywood's Golden Age, is photographed at the Daily News' studio on May 10, 1945. De Havilland began her storied life with her birth to British ...
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) [2] was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 [3] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.
Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind," died in 1967 at age 53 from tuberculosis. She also starred in "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Marlon Brando.