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Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. Written by
Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
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Release Date:
17 January 1940 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Lo que el viento se llevó
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Box Office
Budget:
$3,977,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$1,192,593
(USA)
(26 June 1998)
Gross:
$198,655,278
(USA)
(13 November 1998)
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
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(1969 re-release)
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(1985 re-release)
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(1994 re-release)
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(1989 re-release)
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(copyright length)
Sound Mix:
Mono
(Western Electric Sound System)
Color:
Color
(Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Trivia
The character of Rhett Butler was partially inspired by
Margaret Mitchell's husband nicknamed "Red", to whom she had a short and passionate marriage. Rhett Butler's initials on the handkerchief given to Melanie by Belle are "R.B." or "R.K.B." in the novel, which were the same as Red's- only rearranged.
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Goofs
When Rhett comes to visit Scarlett at Aunt Pittypat's with the green bonnet, there is a desk between two windows with busts on top. The busts disappear, then reappear.
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Quotes
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first lines]
Brent Tarleton:
What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow.
Stuart Tarleton:
War! Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually *want* a war?
Brent Tarleton:
We'll show 'em!
Scarlett:
Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war.
Brent Tarleton:
Not going to be any war?
Stuart Tarleton:
Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war.
Scarlett:
If either ...
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Crazy Credits
George Reeves is credited as playing the part of Brent Tarleton, and Fred Crane is billed as Stuart Tarleton. This is incorrect: Crane played Brent, and Reeves played Stuart.
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Connections
Referenced in
The Happy Hooker (1975)
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Soundtracks
Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)
(1850) (uncredited)
from "Lohengrin"
Written by
Richard Wagner
In the score after Scarlett's nightmare
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