1. Why Was Gone With The Wind So Successful
... like the control of directors in modern moviemaking) Selznick broke all boundaries. After recommendation from Margaret Mitchell, Selznick hired experts in southern history, speech and social customs to represent the films setting as vividly and authentically as possible, Mitchell herself did not want any personal involvement in the film at all, due to the books success she neither needed or wanted ... came back to Howard to produce the script, Selznick himself adding the scene at the end of the film that brings Scarlett back to Tara. Selznick himself also wrote the films now famous prol...
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