from Selznick International Pictures
Directed by
Victor
Fleming
Starring
Vivien
Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara)
Clark
Gable (Rhett Butler)
Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes)
Olivia De Havilland (Melanie Hamilton)
Hattie McDaniel (Mammy)
Evelyn Keyes (Suellen O'Hara)
Ann Rutherford (Carreen)
Butterfly McQueen (Prissy)
George Reeves (Stuart Tarleton)
Fred Crane (Brent Tarleton)
Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O'Hara)
Barbara O'Neil (Ellen)
Written by
Margaret
Mitchell (novel)
Sidney Howard
Original Music by
Max
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The beautiful Southern
belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) loves and loses and loves
again a slyly dashing war profiteer named Rhett Butler (Clark
Gable) as she struggles to protect her family and beloved plantation,
Tara, from the ravages of the Civil War. Based on Margaret Mitchell's
1936 novel, which at the time of the film's release, had surpassed
1,500,000 copies sold. Selznick paid $50,000 for rights to the
book.
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