The premiere of the blockbuster movie Gone With the Wind took place in Atlanta on December 15, 1939. With crowds swelling to the hundreds of thousands, it was apparent the South had been waiting a long time for this moment. For many, Margaret Mitchell’s story of survival helped to redeem the South from decades of pain and suffering experienced after the Civil War and Reconstruction. 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: Pulitzer Prize Night
Clip | Outtakes: Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, Southern Suffragist
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”
