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Gone with the Wind Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Screenplay 1939 1939 | G | Romance, Drama | d. Victor Fleming Vivien Leigh, George Reeves and Clark Gable 70th Anniversary Screening |
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| Special 70th ANNIVERSARY presentation of one of the most popular films of all time. If not the greatest movie ever made (whom some would swear by!), it is certainly among the greatest examples of filmmaking – years in production, costing an astronomical sum, and benefitting from many of the industries most famous, yet uncredited directors: George Cukor, William Cameron Menzies, King Vidor and Sam Wood. Based on the only novel by Margaret Mitchell, written in 1936, it is the epic story of the Old South, prior to and immediately after the Civil War…and of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivian Leigh), the beautiful, high-spirited, emotional, spoiled, indomitable and manipulative southern belle—and the many lives that revolve in her orbit. Among them are Captain Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), who wants her passionately, and Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) whom she lusts after, even though he is happily married to Melanie (Olivia de Havilland). GWTW is a grand, gorgeous film, containing many memorable scenes, with richly-drawn characters in lavish costumes, containing a wonderful sense of setting and period. Whether you’ve seen it before or just heard about it, don’t dare miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see this justifiably famous film as it was intended to be seen—on the PLAZA THEATRE’s 48-foot silver screen in a legitimate 1930 atmospheric movie palace! - Jay Duncan “There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South... Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind...” (First Title Card in movie) | ||