Gone with the Wind Articles

  Cammie King, Rhett Butler’s daughter Bonnie in Gone with the Wind, died of lung cancer in Fort Bragg, Calif., on Sept. 1. She was 76. [Cammie King with Daniel Selznick and Ann Rutherford at 2009 screening of Gone with the Wind.] The role of Bonnie Butler — the then-unknown Elizabeth Taylor had been considered for it, according to some — is pivotal to the [...]

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in David O. Selznick’s Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming (top); Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington in James Cameron’s Avatar (bottom) Gone with the Wind remains the no. 1 movie at the UK box office if a) box-office success is measured by the number of tickets sold (as it logically should) b) estimates by the British Film Institute are accurate. [...]

Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Good news? Well, possibly. I’m unfamiliar with Mara’s work (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Youth in Revolt, The Winning Season) though I’m a fan of her sister, Kate Mara. Anyhow, I’ll have a better chance to become acquainted with Rooney Mara once David Fincher’s The Social Network comes out. Fincher, who will be [...]

Olivia de Havilland (top); Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (bottom) Olivia de Havilland is the subject of an interview published in the London Evening Standard about a week ago. The piece is a must-read. Discussed are de Havilland’s youth, her early years in Los Angeles, Errol Flynn, Gone with the Wind, the Academy Awards, and — tangentially — her relationship with sister Joan Fontaine. "It is [...]