The movie Gone with the Wind is now closer in time to the Civil War era it portrays (78-66 yrs) than it is to the present day (79 yrs).

Year Gone with the Wind released: 1939
Time frame portrayed in the movie: 1861-1873

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Some GwtW trivia to satisfy Automod's 300 character minimum (courtesy of IMDB):

[WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW]

• The fact that Hattie McDaniel would be unable to attend the premiere in racially segregated Atlanta outraged Clark Gable so much that he threatened to boycott the premiere unless she could attend. He later relented when she convinced him to go.

• At nearly four hours long, this is the longest running of all motion pictures to win the prestigious Academy Award for Best Picture.

• Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to be nominated for, and win, an Academy Award.

• Barbara O'Neil was only 28 when she appeared as Ellen O'Hara (Scarlett's mother). Vivien Leigh was 25 when she appeared as Scarlett, who is only 16 at the beginning of the film.

• Vivien Leigh later said that she hated kissing Clark Gable because of his bad breath, rumored to be caused by his false teeth, a result of excessive smoking. According to Frank Buckingham, a technician who observed the film being made, Gable would sometimes eat garlic before his kissing scenes with Vivien Leigh.

• When Rhett pours Mammy a drink after the birth of Bonnie, for a joke during a take, Clark Gable actually poured alcohol instead of the usual tea into the decanter without Hattie McDaniel knowing it until she took a swig.

• If box-office receipts were adjusted for inflation, it would be the top-grossing movie of all time; Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) would only be the second most successful movie of all time. According to the Guinness World Records homepage, the total gross in 2012 figures for "GWTW" would be $4,401,358,554.94 in 2012.

Submitted July 23, 2018 at 05:46AM by RespectMyAuthoriteh https://ift.tt/2mDSHjk