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Gone With The Wind is a film classic from the year 1939, which is still one of the most famous Hollywood films of all time. The lead roles featured Vivien Leigh (†53) as "Scarlett O’Hara" and Clark Gable (†59) as "Rhett Butler“. We've collected the five best pieces of trivia about the amazing and epic Hollywood film for you!
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Barbara O‘Neil (†70), who played "Ellen O‘Hara", "Scarlett's" mother in Gone With The Wind was just 28 years old when shooting the film, making her only three years older than her on-screen daughter Vivien Leigh, who was 25 at the time. Vivien's character "Scarlett" is supposedly 16 years old at the beginning of the epic masterpiece!
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Over the course of the production, Vivien Leigh spent a total of 125 days and received about $25,000— that would be an estimated amount of $472,000 today. Clark Gable worked for 71 days and received over $120,000, which translates to roughly $1.8 million today.
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At the 1939 Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel (†57) became the first African-American actress to win an Oscar for her role of the house slave "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind. She was not only the first African-American performer to take home the coveted trophy, but the first one ever to be nominated!
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When Vivien Leigh won the Oscar in 1940 for her portrayal of "Scarlett O'Hara" in Gone with the Wind. At that time she was only 26 years old. Still today, that makes her one of the top ten youngest Oscar winners of all time.
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Margaret Mitchell wrote the book out of boredom and had no intention of publishing it! It seems as though she could have never imagined the success the book-turned-film would have!
Gone With The Wind is a film classic from the year 1939 that's still one of the most famous Hollywood films of all time. The lead roles featured Vivien Leigh (†53) as "Scarlett O’Hara" and Clark Gable (†59) as "Rhett Butler“.
We've collected the five best pieces of trivia about the amazing and epic Hollywood film for you!