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| January 22, 1936 |
Margaret Mitchell completes the final revision of Gone With The Wind
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| May 19, 1936 |
Gone With The Wind is published.
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| May 20, 1936 |
Katherine "Kay" Brown, a story writer hired by David O. Selznick to look for new material, enthusiastically recommends Gone With The Wind to Selznick as a vehicle for Miriam Hopkins or Margaret Sullavan.
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| May 21, 1936 |
Margaret Mitchell assigns MacMillen the right to sell Gone With The Wind to a production studio
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| June 30, 1936 |
Gone With The Wind hits the bookstores
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| July 6, 1936 |
David O. Selznick wires Kay Brown, "If you can close 'Gone With The Wind' for 50,000 dollars do so." Kay Brown does so.
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| March 25, 1937 |
While researching the movie George Cukor and his staff spoke with Atlanta historian/painter Wilbur Kurtz. He is hired as technical director.
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| May 3, 1937 |
Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize. The award ceremony is later in the month.
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| August 25, 1938 |
Clark Gable signs for the role of "Rhett Butler" in Gone With The Wind
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| December 10, 1938 |
"The Burning of Atlanta" is filmed on backlots of MGM, in Los Angeles, California
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| January 16, 1939 |
Vivien Leigh signs for her role as "Scalett O'Hara" in Gone With The Wind
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| January 26, 1939 |
Principal photography of 'Gone With The Wind' begins
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| November 11, 1939 |
Final scene of Gone With the Wind is shot. It is the opening scene involving Scarlett (Vivien Leigh), and the Tarleton boys, George Reeves and Fred Crane. This was the third time the scene had been shot.
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| December 11, 1939 |
Completion date of the movie Gone With The Wind.
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| December 15, 1939 |
Atlanta is the site for the premiere of "Gone With The Wind," the classic American romance
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| December 19, 1939 |
New York premiere of Gone With The Wind at the Capitol Theater.
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| December 28, 1939 |
Los Angeles premiere of Gone With The Wind at Carthay Circle Theatre
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| February 29, 1940 |
Presentation banquet for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences where Gone With The Wind won 8 Oscars, a record which would stand for 16 years
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| November 7, 1976 |
Part 1 of Gone With The Wind airs on the NBC Television Network and draws a record 47.4 share and 33,960,000 viewers, making it the largest audience to ever watch a television broadcast at the time. Roots Pt. VIII will surpass it the following January. |
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| November 8, 1976 |
Part 2 of Gone With The Wind airs on the NBC Television Network and draws a 47.4 share and 33,750,000 viewers, making it the second largest audience to ever watch a television broadcast at the time. |
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| January 31, 1978 |
Fire destroys the Loew's Grand Theatre, site of the premier of David O. Selznick's Gone With The Wind
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| December 22, 1995 |
Butterfly McQueen, best known for her role as "Prissy" in Gone With The Wind died in a tragic accident in Augusta, Georgia involving a kerosene heater that caught the dress she was wearing on fire. She ran outside and attempted to roll on the ground. A passing teenager smothered the fire with a blanket, but the badly burned actress died 10 hours later.
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