Gone With The Wind

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Vivien Leigh

Date of birth (location) 5 November, 1913 Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India. Date of death (details) 7 July 1967

London, England, UK. (chronic tuberculosis)

Vivien Leigh

Mini biography

Vivian Mary Hartley was born on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India, a strange place for one of the world's most celebrated actresses to be born. She was to live in this beautiful country for the next six years. At the end of the war (World War 1) the Hartleys headed back to their home country

Her mother took her to a play on London's legendary West Side. It was there that Vivien decided to become an actress. She met and married Herbert Leigh in 1932.

Her first role in British motion pictures was as Rose Venables in 1935's The Village Squire (1935). That same year Vivien appeared in Things Are Looking Up (1935), Look Up and Laugh (1935) and Gentlemen's Agreement (1935). In 1938, Vivien went to the US to see her lover, Laurence Olivier.

She rebounded nicely for her role as Blanche DuBois for her second Oscar-winning performance in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) opposite Marlon Brando in 1951. She wasn't heard from much after that. She made a film in 1955 (The Deep Blue Sea (1955)) and didn't appear onscreen again until 1961 in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961).

In 1940, she made two films, Waterloo Bridge (1940) and 21 Days (1940) . That same year saw Vivien marry Olivier and the next year they appeared together in That Hamilton Woman (1941).

By the time of the filming of Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), her life had begun to unravel. She had suffered two miscarriages, contracted tuberculosis, and was diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Vivien's final turn on the screen came in Ship of Fools (1965), and that was a small part. She died at the age of 53 after a severe bout of tuberculosis on July 7, 1967.

Clark Gable

Date of birth (location) 1 February ,1901Cadiz, Ohio, USA Date of death (details) 16 November 1960Los Angeles, California, USA. (heart attack)

Mini biography

Vivian Mary Hartley was born on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India, a strange place for one of the world's most celebrated actresses to be born. She was to live in this beautiful country for the next six years. At the end of the war (World War 1) the Hartleys headed back to their home country

Mini biography

William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. When Clark was 16 he dropped out of school and worked at many odd jobs before joining a traveling theater company.

On December 13, 1924 he married Josephine Dillon, his acting coach and 15 years his senior. Around that time, they moved to Hollywood.

In April 1930 they divorced and a year later he married Maria Langham. He was offered a small part in the Painted Desert in 1931.

From this point, his acting career flourished, and in 1934 he won an Academy Award for his performance in Frank Capra’s classic It Happened One Night. The next year saw a starring role in The Call of the Wild with Loretta Young. Divorced in 1939, he later that same year starred in Gone With the Wind.

In March 1939 Clark married Carole Lombard, but in January 1942 Carole died in an air crash. Clark then volunteered to be drafted and served in Europe for several years.

After the war he continued with his film career and married Silvia Ashley, in 1949. They divorced in 1952.

In July 1955 he married sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles, In early November 1960, he had just completed filming The Misfits, when he suffered a heart attack, and died later that month.

He was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard when she died.

Gone With The Wind Gone With The Wind (1939) is often considered the most beloved, enduring and popular film of all time. Sidney Howard's script was derived from Margaret Mitchell's first and only published, best-selling Civil War and Reconstruction Period novel of 1,037 pages that first appeared in 1936, but was mostly written in the late 1920s. Producer David O. Selznick had acquired the film rights to Mitchell's novel in July, 1936 for $50,000 - a record amount at the time to an unknown author for her first novel, causing some to label the film "Selznick's Folly." At the time of the film's release, the fictional book had surpassed 1.5 million copies sold. More records were set when the film was first aired on television in two parts in late 1976, and controversy arose when it was restored and released theatrically in 1998.

The famous film, shot in three-strip Technicolor, is cinema's greatest, star-studded, historical epic film of the Old South during wartime that boasts an immortal cast in a timeless, classic tale of a love-hate romance. The indomitable heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, struggles to find love during the chaotic Civil War years and afterwards, and ultimately must seek refuge for herself and her family back at the beloved plantation Tara. There, she takes charge, defends it against Union soldiers, carpetbaggers, and starvation itself. She finally marries her worldly admirer Rhett Butler, but her apathy toward him in their marriage dooms their battling relationship, and she again returns to Tara to find consolation - indomitable.

The film (originally rough-cut at 6 hours in length) was challenging in its making, due to its controversial subject matter (including rape, drunkenness, moral dissipation and adultery) and its epic qualities, with more than 50 speaking roles and 2,400 extras.

Authenticity is enhanced by the costuming, sets, and variations on Stephen Foster songs and other excerpts from Civil War martial airs. Its opening, only a few months after WWII began in Europe, helped American audiences to identify with the war story and its theme of survival.With three years advance publicity and Hollywood myth-making, three and one-half hours running time (with one intermission), a gala premiere in Atlanta on December 15, 1939, highest-grossing film status (eventually reaching $200 million), and Max Steiner's sweeping musical score, the exquisitely-photographed, Technicolor film was a blockbuster in its own time. A budgeted investment of over $4 million in production costs was required - an enormous, record-breaking sum.

The civil war

April 12 1861 - At 4:30 AM Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.The Civil War was waged across thousands of miles and in thousands of places, sometimes even in our own backyards. This section attempts to explore them all, from battlefields and cemeteries to memorials and monuments. In May 1865 - Remaining Confederate forces surrender. The Nation is reunited as the Civil War ends. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle. 50,000 survivors return home as amputees.

The first scene

1.The classic scene in which Scarlett confesses her love to Ashley, only to be rejected.2. Worse still, she discovers that Rhett Butler has overheard everything

the second scene

When Scarlett finally realizes that it is Rhett that she really loves, he is packing to leave

Gone With The Wind

I never knew until tonight of the danger.That any man could lose his life to a stranger .Catch me when i am fallingI've been burned by the fire beforeAnd girl , i tell you no liesI don't wanna feel the pain anymoreBut i need you tonightAll of my trouble, my torture and tearsIt's over for now - gone with the windBut i need you tonightSo afraid of the past that you made me tonightGone , it's gone with the windI know that once upon a time , i'd surrenderAnd lovin' you was twice as nice , but not foreverAnd i got too much emotionAnd then love has just cut like a knifeAnd you know , it tears me apartCause i don't wanna feel the pain anymore

But i need you tonightAll of my trouble, my torture and tearsIt's over for now - gone with the windBut i need you tonightSo afraid of the past that you made me tonightGone , it's gone(break)I tell you no lies .I don't wanna be alone anymoreBut i need you tonightAll of my problems, my torture and tearsGone with the wind (you know i need you tonight)But i need you tonightAll of my sorrows are fading and gone with the windYou know i need you tonight ... (fade)

The end! Thank you!