Cinema: Scarlett Fever (1939-1961)

Gone with the wind are the stars of the film, Clark Gable and Leslie Howard. Ward Bond is dead and gone, and so are George Reeves, Hattie McDaniel, Laura Hope Crews, Ona Munson and ten other members of the featured cast. Margaret Mitchell, who wrote the famous book the movie was adapted from, is dead, and so is Sidney Howard, the playwright who wrote most of the adaptation. Victor Fleming, who directed the picture, is dead too. Hollywood itself is practically dead. But Gone With the Wind goes on forever.

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