1. Why Was Gone With The Wind So Successful
... and more which has made gone with the wind a timeless classic. When David O Selznick purchased the rights to Margaret Mitchell's novel for $50 000 He intended to make the greatest and grandest of motion pictures, and he succeeded. At the time of selznicks purchase, Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind was already a best-seller, at the time already having sold around 180 000 ... their homeland. The film shows how the south is incomparably changed by the war, throughout the first portion of the film the audience is shown the beauty of the area and the grace and customs of the southe...
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