Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in the spring of 1937 for Gone With the Wind, to the dismay of some critics and the delight of others. Mitchell received news of the prize by phone, along with multiple requests for interviews. Hating publicity, she fled to a gospel concert at a small black church in Atlanta with her husband and close associates. The press scoured the city but never found her. Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel premieres nationally on Monday, April 2 from 9-10 p.m (check local listings).
Features
Biography of Margaret Mitchell
Clip | Interview with Director Pamela Roberts
Clip | Outtakes: Is Gone With The Wind Literature?
Clip | The Atlanta Race Riot 1906
Clip | Outtakes: Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, Southern Suffragist
Clip | Outtakes: The Grand Premiere
Clip | Outtakes: Pat Conroy – My Mother and Gone With The Wind
Interview with Margaret Mitchell from 1936
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
Clip | Steve Brodner Draws Cab Calloway to “Minnie the Moocher”
Clip | Steve Brodner Sketches Cab to “Everybody Eats When They Come To My House”
