I watch gone with the wind just to look at her gorgeous angelic face, her exspessions and smiles and her great acting, went to soon,if Larry had not left her,l AM sure he would have got her in to hospital when her coughing got worse, to die of TB in the late sickties, the doctor who was treating her was a disgrace he was told her cough was getting worse, an d told her friend , who treating him
I adore Clark Gable, the thought of another person playing Rhett disturbs me. he was perfect, when I read the book he was the perfect image. Poor guy didn't know how brilliant he was :)
he was insecure and anxious about the response he would get from his fans. Nowadays we know he was the most brilliant actor of the XX century, back then they couldn't see it that way, he always thought Gary Cooper was better than him (what a fool)
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This film, along with very few others, is STILL in a class of it's own. It is a masterpiece with the types of actors that just do not exist anymore. Our so called Hollywood royalty of today seem like cartoon characters compaired to these.
SAMMY WHITE the Persian cat I agree however the truth is the studios controlled everything about the actors and if anything did happen the papers were payed off but it did make for a golden age in Hollywood that we can all fantasize about 🙃😊
"The Wizard of Oz," "The Philadelphia Story," "All About Eve" and "Rear Window" are also gems that could not be remade with the class of the originals either. And there really is no Hollywood royalty anymore. Today's top echelon of actors and actresses (such as they are) are too busy spouting their political views and having cosmetic surgeries to be bothered with acting. Also, the geography of California, with the wild fires and gang violence, has made many entertainers flea Los Angeles and California for Eastern and Rocky Mountain states, chiefly Colorado (Boulder and Denver), Connecticut and New York, except when they are needed to work in a studio. Plus much of filming work these days is done on location and out of Hollywood, in Canada (Toronto and Vancouver, chiefly), and in the Southern United States (Georgia and the Carolinas). Yes, "Sammy White the Persian cat," the days of Fred Astaire, Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, and Clifton Webb, as well of Lucille Ball, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Loretta Young, and other Hollywood greats are long gone. The likes of a Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Christian Bale and George Clooney are nothing compared to any of the aforementioned Hollywood greats.
Vivien leigh most beautiful woman any era!!!! The old fashioned hairstyles that actresses used to have only vivien leigh would be able to pull that off even today
My mum loved this film so much. When she died we had Gone with the wind etched on her grave stone🥰. This film rubbed off on her 8 kids and we named some of our children Melanie, Olivia and Tara for the love of this amazing film. Remember people this is a film of its time!.
All the cast was amazing for the movie. I've always felt that Leslie Howard resembled someone from the House of Windsor Royal family portrait. He had a royal wind about him.
50 Years ago I was in my 'Unemployment Office' on West 90th Street and Broadway signing for my weekly unemployment check and all of a sudden I heard that unmistakable voice on the one payphone in the office (there was NO such thing as a cell phone back then)... none other than Butterfly McQueen, herself! Even as a New Yorker who has seen everything possible, what a thrill that was that's still with me to this day!
I am obsessed with this movie and everything about it. What a remarkable time in American history and the book and movie capture it so well. So well made and I normally do not like a lot of old movies but Gone With the Wind is perfection. I had no idea who Leslie Howard was until I saw the movie, isn't that a shame?
I just watched this movie today for the first time and gotta said WOW! I mean "Casablanca" still my favorite movie but this movie was definitely amazing
One of the best movie's ever made about the way people thought lived , and fought. How the women had to survived while their men were gone and not there to protect them. Houses burned down , no crops to eat and people dying. But after the war they rebuilt their towns homes and land. A moment in history . They where all heroes .
MY GOD look at Leigh's acting @ 7:23 ...her eyes are flashing, you cant get that kind of acting nowadays...it's not just her voice or any part of her appearance..it is all of her features animated all at once...that is pure acting and pure skill.
Vivien Leigh was actually obsessed with Leslie Howard in real life 😂 She even admitted to marrying her first husband because he resembled Howard. I think Howard and Gable are both good looking guys. I personally would have chose Rhett though ♥️
This is a clip from a terrific doc about the making of GWTW narrated by Christopher Plummer that pops up now and again on the internet. It sanitizes a few things but it's very entertaining and worth looking for.
"Between these two people there seemed to be a cool friendliness, Gable knew this was a woman's picture, And he treated her with the upmost respect" . . . . . . . . . But so called internet experts swear they hated each other, Clark Gable in a leather jacket 😍😍 just when I think he can't get anymore dashing.
I watched 'Gone with the Wind' yesterday, but I'm not familiar with many classic Hollywood actors. It's saddening to hear that Olivia de Havilland was alive until two years ago at the age of 104.🥺
Gone with the Wind is the best movie ever made! Yes, I know the portrayal of black people are not good, but the film is 80 years old, the story, music and the actors are just amazing.
What’s wrong with the portal of black characters? They never use the N word- even though it was used frequently at the time- and they play people who were based on a real life time in history.
Not a Clark Gable fan, never was, never will be. But to find out that he was reluctant to take the role of Rhett Butler when he was the best Rhett Butler there ever was or ever will be, is shocking. I mean, he looked the part from top to bottom, moreso than Howard did with Ashley. I cannot imagine any other actor either back then or now who would've done Rhett Butler more justice. The same goes for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett. With those two as the lovers this movie was bound to do well.
My mother told me that before the movie came out she had already envisioned Clark Gable playing Rhett just from the character in the book; I think a lot of people did. My mother was not one to tell you anything to make herself look brilliant after the fact. She knew. Leslie Howard had been one of her most favorite actors of all time - I think she had a crush on him. In my opinion, this is still probably the best movie ever made. I have seen it quite a few times and I will watch it again. In spite of all the twists and turns during production of this movie, with 3 different directors, it's a masterpiece. I can't imagine life without "Gone with the Wind" in movie form. I started reading the book decades ago, but never finished it. Maybe someday......
But how come only 12 years later and at only 38 she looked so different and terrible in Streetcar? Was she made up to look like that, or had mental illness taken a toll on her looks?
I had a VHS copy of this that was brought out for the 50th anniversary of the release of the film. It’s almost impossible to find the original now which is a shame as it was impeccable if lengthy. Dont be too hard on Leslie Howard, Ashley was a lousy part and he did a good job. He was shot down and killed during the war.
Leslie Howard was horribly miscast. Ashley was supposed to be a dashing man Scarlet pined for over Rhett. Looking at Leslie here, I just don't see that happening.
Well, the Brits outshone the other acting stars here! Brill! A great book. The slaves were treated well in it (whereas the harsh reality, according to other narratives, was often horrific) and it was great to see respect shown towards the slave actors and actresses, unlike others who had to improve their hair, eye brows, bosoms and not live with their husbands! Hattie McDaniel made history! What a great lady!
How bout possibly casting that great Brit Charles Laughton as Father O'Hara? May have worked. I read a book that said he stank- hated to bathe. The book was by a male prostitute, who, thankfully, never had anything to negative to say about any of his johns physically. How he did it with Laughton and several others is beyond me? Not for all of the money in the world coudl I..
Happy Harry 1509 Actually in reading some Civil War Diaries there were some Catholic plantation owners who paid their slaves and taught them to read, write, and do simple arithmetic which was against the law in the south. It seemed like the slaves in these families were treated like family members with their job being to do work on the plantation with a start and end time.
I love hattie mc Daniel the first African American women to win a golden globe I want to be an actress once i leave school and I do admire Hattie and Olivia
Powieść przeczytałam w ciągu 2 dni. Wcześniej widziałam zdjęcia odtwórców głównych ról. Nigdy nie wyobrażałam sobie nikogo innego w roli Scarlett , ani Rhetta. Olivia de Havilland jest godna Oscara!
It's really impressive how the makeup people turned a middle aged Leslie Howard into a young Ashley. Howard really looked his age but the combination of cosmetics, camera work, and good acting really pulled it off, esp since Howard didn't want to do it, but he was a pro. I always liked Ashley. He was not unmanly. He might have been a business failure who could not adjust well enough to the post civil war, but he was a decent man who faced reality and his own short comings, and that's not a bad thing. De Havilland was the best Melanie, but Anne Shirley's tests were very nice,, especially as a young Melanie. The deeper kinder ladylike voice is what makes Melanie work at any age. The casting was a tour de force of finding people who could perform the characters beautifully over the ten+ year span of the story. Sometimes I watch the movie, and it seems overwrought and over dramatic. Then I watch again and It is a masterpiece of it's time. It certainly cannot be duplicated in this time. Same goes for most supporting actors. AMAZING casting. No wonder it took so long. Honestly, the only actor who didn't work for me is Gable, because he was too much his own type then and he recognized it. But I can't think of someone else to play the part who wouldn't also be too distinctly himself. (eg Melvyn Douglas) The author visualized Walter Pidgeon. Interesting!
Does anyone know where i can get a download of this full documentary. It came out in 88/89 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of GWTW. It is lengthy over 2 hours long but i find the end terribly emotive. It shows Scarlett doing her ‘never be hungry again’ speech. It to me epitomised the era as my country was getting it’s guts ripped out by the Germans and here was this Englishwoman swearing vengeance, the lighting emphasised it too. I dont cry at films but the narration over the screen is also heartbreaking as the whole world was about to be turned upside down
Ah Leslie Howard killed in WW2 targeted by hitler .. a really brave man great actor in Pygmalion and The Scarlet Pimpernel with the stunning Merle Oberon ,taken too soon . Clark Gable was utterly spot on for Rhett regardless of how he felt Almost sounds like Errol Flynn narrating ?
Were any of these actresses considered for either Scarlett or Melanie or even Belle? Bette Davis, Janet Gaynor, Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietruch, Ann Dvoark,Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Kay Francis, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable,Linda Darnell(May have been too early), Ida Lupino, Greta Garbo(maybe as Belle?), Hedy Lamarr(same as Garbo),Ann Sheridan, Judy Garland, Anita Louise, Marsha Hunt, Jane Bryan,Jeanette MacDonald, Maureen O'Sullivan,Virginia Bruce,Joan Crawford, Virginia Grey, Deanna Durbin,Myrna Loy,Greer Garson, Ingrid Bergman, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine,Luise Rainer(she may have left H'wood by then),Ruth Hussey, Kate Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Eve Arden,Claire Trevor.Barbara Stanwyck, Lupe Velez,Dolores Del Rio,Maureen O'Hara(maybe too early), Margaret Lindsay, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, Dorothy Lamour, Ruby Keeler(as Melanie),Ginger Rogers,Joan Blondell,Loretta Young, Eleanor Powell, Merle Oberon, Geri Fitzgerald, Conny Bennett, Florence Rice, Mary Astor(as Belle maybe), Gladys George(as Belle), Arline Judge, Gloria Dickson, Sonja Henie(merlanie?), Alice Faye,Ann Harding,Madge Evans,Karen Morley(Belle)? Betty, Linda, Deanna and Judy would have made good Melanies. I know Rita, Ida, Ann and Betty were still starlets at the time but well known enough to be tested. I think Bette and Lombard would have made good Scarletts, and Kay, who had lost her clout in Hollywood by then, could have made a good Belle. Harlow may have made a good Scarlett had she lived. The casting of Garbo, Hedy,Lupe and Luise isn't that far off, as , despite her accent, Luise played a tragic Southern belle, in the sadly forgotten, quite good 1937 film The Toy Wife. Miss Jennifer Jones(then known as Phylis Isley) and Miss Carole Landis were two starlets , both in B westerns at that time. They may have been too unknown to be tested but they would have been good in the film. also Miss Veronica Lake(known then as Connie Keane) had 3 bit roles in 1939. Though she would have made a good Melanie, I dont think she was well known enough to be tested for the role.Does anyone know of a role the late, great Marjorie Main could have played in the film? Perhaps Dolly Merriwether?But not Aunt Pittypat. Laura Hope Crews was too perfect in that role. She was hilarious. Added some very needed comic relief to the film. I wish they could have found roles for the superb Edna May Oliver and Maria Ouespenskya in the film? Any thoughts?, Above Goddard, the gorgeous talented Edith Marrener would have made a good Scarlett. She looked Irish , which was also good for the role, and was also youthful Was Edie(soon to conquer Hollywood as Susan Hayward) too young and not yet a good enough actress to play the role? An amazing thing about Susan Hayward is how long it took for Hollywood to realize that she should have been a leading lady and major star. For 10 years , Hayward floundered in supporting roles(two with Goddard) and as a leading lady in B movies(like Jack London(1944) and Hit Parade of 1943) before reaching stardom with her Oscar nominated performance in Smash Up(1947). In 1948, Hayward got a Scarlett-ish type role in the long forgotten film Tap Roots(1948). One of the most beautiful and most talented women ever in Hollywood, Hayward would peak in the 1950s as a top box office draw for 20th Century Fox, even though they gave her films that really didn't show off her tremendous acting skills. On loanout to MGM, Hayward gave a maginificent performance(and sang very well) in I'll Cry Tomorrow(1955).Final note, Robert Taylor would have made a good Ashley, but, perhaps, was too big of a star for such a supporting role.
Clark Gable was so lucky in life that he was kissed by such a beauty as Vivien Leigh!They look so good together, they play love so romantically! It's a pity that the film does not fully correspond to the book, there are so many scenes in it that could be perfectly played, even if the film was for 6 hours, I agree!
Does anyone know who any of the other four actresses testing for Belle Watling were? I can see Ginger Rogers and Conny Bennett but dont recognize the other four.
I loved this movie and must have seen it about 30 times at least. The only casting mistake to my opinion is Leslie Howard as Ashley. He is so boring compared to Rhett. How could Scarlett be in love with him when she could have had the wonderful Rhett Butler. Clark Gable was perfect in his role. He was born for the part as well as Vivian Leigh for Scarlett’s
I think that was the point. Ashley was Scarlett's crush, and a crush always looks more alluring than what they actually are. This is just what I take from it.
No ,they shouldnt and i dont think.they will ,many years gone and they never ever think about it Honestly the cast was amazing and i dont think they would find anybody could replace Scarlett and Rhett Vivian or Clark
I read that Margaret Mitchell, the author of the book wanted Groucho Marx to play Rhet Butler! Casting photos of Groucho in the wardrobe, he definitely looked the part! Not to sure he would have been taken seriously if casted!
Book authors don't always make great filmmakers. They cannot accept alternatives which they see as compromises. Filmmakers know actors' limitations and so disagree with authors' whimsical choices.
Katherine Hepburn accurately stated: Lawrence Olivier, first rate actor, second rate human being. Olivier hated his wife was the perfect actress for the best role Hollywood offered to a woman in the golden age of Hollywood.
Vivian's voice as Scarlett is is perfect.
She is perfect.
I watch gone with the wind just to look at her gorgeous angelic face, her exspessions and smiles and her great acting, went to soon,if Larry had not left her,l AM sure he would have got her in to hospital when her coughing got worse, to die of TB in the late sickties, the doctor who was treating her was a disgrace he was told her cough was getting worse, an
d told her friend , who treating him
Nobody could have played Mammie better then Hattie McDaniel what a personality
How bout Dorothy Dandridge's rug munching psycho Mom, Ruby?
JohnnyM Fan lmfao omg 😂😂😂😂
@3rrlia She was often the conscience of the movie.
Octavia Spencer would be quite powerful too in a different way I reckon
I adore Clark Gable, the thought of another person playing Rhett disturbs me. he was perfect, when I read the book he was the perfect image. Poor guy didn't know how brilliant he was :)
Never ever do a sequel, you can never top a perfect movie, same for Casablanca.
he was insecure and anxious about the response he would get from his fans. Nowadays we know he was the most brilliant actor of the XX century, back then they couldn't see it that way, he always thought Gary Cooper was better than him (what a fool)
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Rhett Butler so dashing and handsome. He's the perfect choice and Vivian Leigh as Scarlett. Great movie
This film, along with very few others, is STILL in a class of it's own.
It is a masterpiece with the types of actors that just do not exist anymore. Our so called Hollywood royalty of today seem like cartoon characters compaired to these.
SAMMY WHITE the Persian cat I agree however the truth is the studios controlled everything about the actors and if anything did happen the papers were payed off but it did make for a golden age in Hollywood that we can all fantasize about 🙃😊
SAMMY WHITE the Persian cat Dr Zivago olso
"The Wizard of Oz," "The Philadelphia Story," "All About Eve" and "Rear Window" are also gems that could not be remade with the class of the originals either. And there really is no Hollywood royalty anymore. Today's top echelon of actors and actresses (such as they are) are too busy spouting their political views and having cosmetic surgeries to be bothered with acting.
Also, the geography of California, with the wild fires and gang violence, has made many entertainers flea Los Angeles and California for Eastern and Rocky Mountain states, chiefly Colorado (Boulder and Denver), Connecticut and New York, except when they are needed to work in a studio. Plus much of filming work these days is done on location and out of Hollywood, in Canada (Toronto and Vancouver, chiefly), and in the Southern United States (Georgia and the Carolinas).
Yes, "Sammy White the Persian cat," the days of Fred Astaire, Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, and Clifton Webb, as well of Lucille Ball, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Loretta Young, and other Hollywood greats are long gone. The likes of a Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Christian Bale and George Clooney are nothing compared to any of the aforementioned Hollywood greats.
@@gymnastix Well said!
Miss Hattie McDaniel and Miss Butterfly McQueen. God rest their souls. But how far have we as a society actually advanced? Not far at all!!
Vivien leigh most beautiful woman any era!!!! The old fashioned hairstyles that actresses used to have only vivien leigh would be able to pull that off even today
Olivia de Havilland was so pretty!
Aishiya1 still is to this day. As far as I know she is alive at the young age of 101! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland
She still as at 101.
My mum loved this film so much. When she died we had Gone with the wind etched on her grave stone🥰. This film rubbed off on her 8 kids and we named some of our children Melanie, Olivia and Tara for the love of this amazing film. Remember people this is a film of its time!.
Wow. I had no idea Leslie Howard was 46 when he made GWTW. WOW.
All the cast was amazing for the movie. I've always felt that Leslie Howard resembled someone from the House of Windsor Royal family portrait. He had a royal wind about him.
He was Jewish. Not royal at all.
Lord help Hollywood if they even THINK about remaking this.
🙄😊
i want margot robbie plays scarlett
@yasyfa radiany just no lol
yasyfa radiany never. Ever.
No Hollywood actor today comes close to the actors from the golden era! And I was not even born then! I see it after watching AMC!
1939. Hollywood will never top that year for movies, legends and greatness.
I agree, 1939 will always stand alone and Hollywood grandest year.
Agreed! Besides GWTW, we also got other greats like the Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer, and Disney’s Snow White and the seven dwarves.
50 Years ago I was in my 'Unemployment Office' on West 90th Street and Broadway signing for my weekly unemployment check and all of a sudden I heard that unmistakable voice on the one payphone in the office (there was NO such thing as a cell phone back then)... none other than Butterfly McQueen, herself! Even as a New Yorker who has seen everything possible, what a thrill that was that's still with me to this day!
I am obsessed with this movie and everything about it. What a remarkable time in American history and the book and movie capture it so well. So well made and I normally do not like a lot of old movies but Gone With the Wind is perfection. I had no idea who Leslie Howard was until I saw the movie, isn't that a shame?
Gone with the wind was a one of a kind classic and epic. No movie has come close to this masterpiece since.
@Lyn Ryall ANOTHER MOVIE WITH CLARK GABLE, CALL BAND OF ANGLES CIRCA 1958 THAT WAS ALSO GOOD.
Gone with the wind is the best movie that I have ever seen!!
My very favorite movie of all time! I believe everyone was the perfect actor for their parts! A true masterpiece! 🖤
mine too. Perfect casting, perfect music n everything
We are in 2018 and Olivia de Havilland is still alive!
Marcos Vinicius Alves the only surviving cast member right now!
Marcos Vinicius Alves She still looks beautiful too.
Donna G lier!
MAZEL TOV It's spelled "liar"
Marcos Vinicius Alves and beautiful
I just watched this movie today for the first time and gotta said WOW! I mean "Casablanca" still my favorite movie but this movie was definitely amazing
Leslie Howard was a damn good actor! A casualty of WWII.
My super secret love since I was 10. Handsome classy great actor
One of the best movie's ever made about the way people thought lived , and fought. How the women had to survived while their men were gone and not there to protect them. Houses burned down , no crops to eat and people dying. But after the war they rebuilt their towns homes and land. A moment in history . They where all heroes .
Oh, I want to see more! There will never be another "Gone With The Wind". Best cast ever.
MISS BUTTERFLY MC QUEEN....that voice....that look...NOTHING ELSE TO SAY.
Unique !
She was wonderful!
Butterfly McQueen still had her sweet, pleasant voice in old age. I loved her character in GWTW.
MY GOD look at Leigh's acting @ 7:23 ...her eyes are flashing, you cant get that kind of acting nowadays...it's not just her voice or any part of her appearance..it is all of her features animated all at once...that is pure acting and pure skill.
One of the few of my favorite movie of all time!
Clark look soo handsome here! 😘 Great set of cast!! 👏
We are in late April ,2019 and Miss deHavllind is still alive living in Paris. The last cast member
She is Dame Olivia DeHavilland, and she will soon be--are you ready--104.
@@Juliaflo GOOD FOR HER, MAYBE FRANCE IS GOOD FOR HER HEALTH.
Vivian was so pretty..
I had this whole documentary on VHS. Nice to see it again.
Could there have been any other Scarlett who would have combined Vivien's beauty and talent as well?
Jaymes Guy no
No, never.
No
NO!!!
None!!!
Leslie Howard, * sigh*. My recent crazy crush. Perfect casting all round. Epic film.
Actually it is called THE MAKING OF A LEGEND Gone with the Wind.
What woman in her right mind would leave Clark Gable for Leslie Howard? That was the only thing in the movie I just thought made no sense!
I can see it.
I think the point is that she was not in her right mind. She was hanging on to a teenage illusion.
Halitosis
Lust is lust😂😂😂
Vivien Leigh was actually obsessed with Leslie Howard in real life 😂 She even admitted to marrying her first husband because he resembled Howard. I think Howard and Gable are both good looking guys. I personally would have chose Rhett though ♥️
My all time favorite classic film!
This is a clip from a terrific doc about the making of GWTW narrated by Christopher Plummer that pops up now and again on the internet. It sanitizes a few things but it's very entertaining and worth looking for.
Vow
Flashback
Exquisite
All coming back to life.... Like a fairy tale
It would have been interesting to see Laurence Olivier as Ashley
The camera didnt love him. He seemed wooden in "Wuthering Heights."
Wouldn't have worked. Too outside his wheelhouse.
That would be a competition
"Between these two people there seemed to be a cool friendliness, Gable knew this was a woman's picture, And he treated her with the upmost respect" . . . . . . . . . But so called internet experts swear they hated each other, Clark Gable in a leather jacket 😍😍 just when I think he can't get anymore dashing.
Second half of 2019 and Olivia is still here and going strong !
I watched 'Gone with the Wind' yesterday, but I'm not familiar with many classic Hollywood actors. It's saddening to hear that Olivia de Havilland was alive until two years ago at the age of 104.🥺
Gone with the Wind is the best movie ever made! Yes, I know the portrayal of black people are not good, but the film is 80 years old, the story, music and the actors are just amazing.
What’s wrong with the portal of black characters? They never use the N word- even though it was used frequently at the time- and they play people who were based on a real life time in history.
HattieMcDaniel and Butterfly McQueen add greatly to this film.
😢❤
And Clarke Gable
Very much so!!!
I had the great honor of meeting Miss McQueen in the 1970's.
@@Juliaflo good for you! Congratulations!
Not a Clark Gable fan, never was, never will be. But to find out that he was reluctant to take the role of Rhett Butler when he was the best Rhett Butler there ever was or ever will be, is shocking. I mean, he looked the part from top to bottom, moreso than Howard did with Ashley. I cannot imagine any other actor either back then or now who would've done Rhett Butler more justice. The same goes for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett. With those two as the lovers this movie was bound to do well.
Gable and Leigh were perfect. I read the book and I thought they were perfect. I hope nobody ever remakes that film.
I still maintain that my mother's opinion that Howard was miscast a book I read reckoned Henry Fonda would have been great.
I thought of him too.
Tyrone power would have been great
My mother told me that before the movie came out she had already envisioned Clark Gable playing Rhett just from the character in the book; I think a lot of people did. My mother was not one to tell you anything to make herself look brilliant after the fact. She knew. Leslie Howard had been one of her most favorite actors of all time - I think she had a crush on him. In my opinion, this is still probably the best movie ever made. I have seen it quite a few times and I will watch it again. In spite of all the twists and turns during production of this movie, with 3 different directors, it's a masterpiece. I can't imagine life without "Gone with the Wind" in movie form. I started reading the book decades ago, but never finished it. Maybe someday......
Dat was voor mij de beste film die ik ooit gezien heb..
Vivien Leigh, next to Greta Garbo was one of the most jaw droppingly beautiful women of the 20th century.
I agree but she did model her look on Hedy Lamarr who was also stunningly beautiful.
@@EmoBearRights Hedy Lamarr immediately came to mind. In my opinion, Vivien Leigh and Hedy Lamarr were equally beautiful.
But how come only 12 years later and at only 38 she looked so different and terrible in Streetcar? Was she made up to look like that, or had mental illness taken a toll on her looks?
JohnnyM Fan because she was meant to. It’s called make up and acting
@@johnnymfan5065 she was made to look like that, they made her uglier so to reflect blanche's struggles
I had a VHS copy of this that was brought out for the 50th anniversary of the release of the film. It’s almost impossible to find the original now which is a shame as it was impeccable if lengthy. Dont be too hard on Leslie Howard, Ashley was a lousy part and he did a good job. He was shot down and killed during the war.
Leslie Howard was horribly miscast. Ashley was supposed to be a dashing man Scarlet pined for over Rhett. Looking at Leslie here, I just don't see that happening.
I agree. I just never saw it.
Yep if you read the book Leslie is not what you picture at all.
Tyrone power would have been great
Very informative video. This is my favorite movie!
Cudowna! WSPANIAŁA powieść!
I love this movie!
Hope you have a copy because the networks don't want to show it!😖😖
Well, the Brits outshone the other acting stars here! Brill!
A great book. The slaves were treated well in it (whereas the harsh reality, according to other narratives, was often horrific) and it was great to see respect shown towards the slave actors and actresses, unlike others who had to improve their hair, eye brows, bosoms and not live with their husbands!
Hattie McDaniel made history! What a great lady!
How bout possibly casting that great Brit Charles Laughton as Father O'Hara? May have worked. I read a book that said he stank- hated to bathe. The book was by a male prostitute, who, thankfully, never had anything to negative to say about any of his johns physically. How he did it with Laughton and several others is beyond me? Not for all of the money in the world coudl I..
Happy Harry 1509 Actually in reading some Civil War Diaries there were some Catholic plantation owners who paid their slaves and taught them to read, write, and do simple arithmetic which was against the law in the south. It seemed like the slaves in these families were treated like family members with their job being to do work on the plantation with a start and end time.
I love hattie mc Daniel the first African American women to win a golden globe I want to be an actress once i leave school and I do admire Hattie and Olivia
There was a sequel series to this masterpiece it was not even close
3:30 ...... so fresh, they both nailed it
Clark Gable a vraiment le physique du rôle de Rhett Butler, et il y était criant de vérité
Powieść przeczytałam w ciągu 2 dni. Wcześniej widziałam zdjęcia odtwórców głównych ról. Nigdy nie wyobrażałam sobie nikogo innego w roli Scarlett , ani Rhetta. Olivia de Havilland jest godna Oscara!
I love ... E o vento levou.
Brazil
The volume is sooooo low I have to turn mine up all the way and still sit somewhere in total silence,lol
Clark Gable in a leather jacket 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
"In the south they said: better an english girl than a yankee" SO true =)
sctigergirl81 lol
and better a Yankee than Reb :P
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 ... You must be ignorant about other things, too!
It's really impressive how the makeup people turned a middle aged Leslie Howard into a young Ashley. Howard really looked his age but the combination of cosmetics, camera work, and good acting really pulled it off, esp since Howard didn't want to do it, but he was a pro.
I always liked Ashley. He was not unmanly. He might have been a business failure who could not adjust well enough to the post civil war, but he was a decent man who faced reality and his own short comings, and that's not a bad thing.
De Havilland was the best Melanie, but Anne Shirley's tests were very nice,, especially as a young Melanie. The deeper kinder ladylike voice is what makes Melanie work at any age. The casting was a tour de force of finding people who could perform the characters beautifully over the ten+ year span of the story.
Sometimes I watch the movie, and it seems overwrought and over dramatic. Then I watch again and It is a masterpiece of it's time. It certainly cannot be duplicated in this time.
Same goes for most supporting actors. AMAZING casting. No wonder it took so long.
Honestly, the only actor who didn't work for me is Gable, because he was too much his own type then and he recognized it. But I can't think of someone else to play the part who wouldn't also be too distinctly himself. (eg Melvyn Douglas) The author visualized Walter Pidgeon. Interesting!
Don't make movies like this any more.
@JMG Right...everything in the world is racist to you....moron.
Does anyone know where i can get a download of this full documentary. It came out in 88/89 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of GWTW. It is lengthy over 2 hours long but i find the end terribly emotive. It shows Scarlett doing her ‘never be hungry again’ speech. It to me epitomised the era as my country was getting it’s guts ripped out by the Germans and here was this Englishwoman swearing vengeance, the lighting emphasised it too. I dont cry at films but the narration over the screen is also heartbreaking as the whole world was about to be turned upside down
Foi um sucesso esse filme
2019, and Olivia de Havilland is still with us, she's 103 years old.. wow
Wonderful, I didn’t know that🙂
This video cutting off at the end with that static squeak nearly gave me a fucking heart attack.....
Ah Leslie Howard killed in WW2 targeted by hitler .. a really brave man great actor in Pygmalion and The Scarlet Pimpernel with the stunning Merle Oberon ,taken too soon .
Clark Gable was utterly spot on for Rhett regardless of how he felt
Almost sounds like Errol Flynn narrating ?
Were any of these actresses considered for either Scarlett or Melanie or even Belle? Bette Davis, Janet Gaynor, Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietruch, Ann Dvoark,Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Kay Francis, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable,Linda Darnell(May have been too early), Ida Lupino, Greta Garbo(maybe as Belle?), Hedy Lamarr(same as Garbo),Ann Sheridan, Judy Garland, Anita Louise, Marsha Hunt, Jane Bryan,Jeanette MacDonald, Maureen O'Sullivan,Virginia Bruce,Joan Crawford, Virginia Grey, Deanna Durbin,Myrna Loy,Greer Garson, Ingrid Bergman, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine,Luise Rainer(she may have left H'wood by then),Ruth Hussey, Kate Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Eve Arden,Claire Trevor.Barbara Stanwyck, Lupe Velez,Dolores Del Rio,Maureen O'Hara(maybe too early), Margaret Lindsay, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, Dorothy Lamour, Ruby Keeler(as Melanie),Ginger Rogers,Joan Blondell,Loretta Young, Eleanor Powell, Merle Oberon, Geri Fitzgerald, Conny Bennett, Florence Rice, Mary Astor(as Belle maybe), Gladys George(as Belle), Arline Judge, Gloria Dickson, Sonja Henie(merlanie?), Alice Faye,Ann Harding,Madge Evans,Karen Morley(Belle)? Betty, Linda, Deanna and Judy would have made good Melanies. I know Rita, Ida, Ann and Betty were still starlets at the time but well known enough to be tested. I think Bette and Lombard would have made good Scarletts, and Kay, who had lost her clout in Hollywood by then, could have made a good Belle. Harlow may have made a good Scarlett had she lived. The casting of Garbo, Hedy,Lupe and Luise isn't that far off, as , despite her accent, Luise played a tragic Southern belle, in the sadly forgotten, quite good 1937 film The Toy Wife. Miss Jennifer Jones(then known as Phylis Isley) and Miss Carole Landis were two starlets , both in B westerns at that time. They may have been too unknown to be tested but they would have been good in the film. also Miss Veronica Lake(known then as Connie Keane) had 3 bit roles in 1939. Though she would have made a good Melanie, I dont think she was well known enough to be tested for the role.Does anyone know of a role the late, great Marjorie Main could have played in the film? Perhaps Dolly Merriwether?But not Aunt Pittypat. Laura Hope Crews was too perfect in that role. She was hilarious. Added some very needed comic relief to the film. I wish they could have found roles for the superb Edna May Oliver and Maria Ouespenskya in the film? Any thoughts?, Above Goddard, the gorgeous talented Edith Marrener would have made a good Scarlett. She looked Irish , which was also good for the role, and was also youthful Was Edie(soon to conquer Hollywood as Susan Hayward) too young and not yet a good enough actress to play the role? An amazing thing about Susan Hayward is how long it took for Hollywood to realize that she should have been a leading lady and major star. For 10 years , Hayward floundered in supporting roles(two with Goddard) and as a leading lady in B movies(like Jack London(1944) and Hit Parade of 1943) before reaching stardom with her Oscar nominated performance in Smash Up(1947). In 1948, Hayward got a Scarlett-ish type role in the long forgotten film Tap Roots(1948). One of the most beautiful and most talented women ever in Hollywood, Hayward would peak in the 1950s as a top box office draw for 20th Century Fox, even though they gave her films that really didn't show off her tremendous acting skills. On loanout to MGM, Hayward gave a maginificent performance(and sang very well) in I'll Cry Tomorrow(1955).Final note, Robert Taylor would have made a good Ashley, but, perhaps, was too big of a star for such a supporting role.
Clark Gable was so lucky in life that he was kissed by such a beauty as Vivien Leigh!They look so good together, they play love so romantically! It's a pity that the film does not fully correspond to the book, there are so many scenes in it that could be perfectly played, even if the film was for 6 hours, I agree!
@Lavender Raine Vivien Leigh experts have debunked this lie that was written in one unauthorized and unsourced Vivien Leigh biography.
I wish I had lived back in these times... *sigh*
At least Hattie Mc Daniel, got her chance at acting even though she was black which was really hard back in the 30s and 40s and so on.
She had her own radio show in the 1940s.
Hattie McDaniel was fabulous!
And she got a well deserved oscar for it. She was dead on according to the book. Perfect in the part. Loved her.
she bought her first home with the monies from GWTW...
Hattie said " better to play a maid than be one" we should not judge those black actors then. These roles all they had-but it was good money.
Oh my sweetheart Gable❤
what documentary is this from? :)
Does anyone know who any of the other four actresses testing for Belle Watling were? I can see Ginger Rogers and Conny Bennett but dont recognize the other four.
The only character I did not like was Leslie Howard. What woman in her right mind would drop Clark Gable for Leslie Howard? Made absolutely no sense!
Elizabeth Anderson I agree with you . Leslie Howard looked insipid and to think Scarlett preferred him over Rhett 😪😪😪
Asjley był takim mięczakiem, a Ty, taka twarda Scarlett tego nie dostrzegłaś!
Olivia de Havilland is 103 Years Old amazing!!!
Cuando Clark Gable sale vestido de traje y sombrero vaquero negro se parece muchisimo a Mauricio Garcés
Does anyone know where I can find this original documentary?
I ordered it online. I think it is called The Making of Gone with the Wind?
Thank You! I'll try to look for it.
"Gone With The Wind: The Making of a Legend"
Name of Documentary?
hahha Larry coming in or coming out>> That is what he was doing!!!!
don't like period dramas but this is the best film of all time in the English language.(can't speak for other idioms).
more!!!!!
Leslie Howard was in BRITISH INTELLIGENCE.
'Frankly my dear, I don't give a dam'
I loved this movie and must have seen it about 30 times at least. The only casting mistake to my opinion is Leslie Howard as Ashley. He is so boring compared to Rhett. How could Scarlett be in love with him when she could have had the wonderful Rhett Butler. Clark Gable was perfect in his role. He was born for the part as well as Vivian Leigh for Scarlett’s
I think that was the point. Ashley was Scarlett's crush, and a crush always looks more alluring than what they actually are. This is just what I take from it.
Vivian’s Eyes🥂
Never understood why they chose Leslie Howard for Ashley
Tyrone power would have been great
El porque no la completan Graw
No ,they shouldnt and i dont think.they will ,many years gone and they never ever think about it
Honestly the cast was amazing and i dont think they would find anybody could replace Scarlett and Rhett
Vivian or Clark
I read that Margaret Mitchell, the author of the book wanted Groucho Marx to play Rhet Butler! Casting photos of Groucho in the wardrobe, he definitely looked the part! Not to sure he would have been taken seriously if casted!
she also envisioned basil rathbone as rhett butler
She said it as a joke because they kept asking her. She was very happy with Clark Gable.
She wanted Basil Rathbone to play Ashley Wilkes, not Groucho.
It's a joke right? That is so bizarre
Book authors don't always make great filmmakers. They cannot accept alternatives which they see as compromises. Filmmakers know actors' limitations and so disagree with authors' whimsical choices.
2019 Olivia de Havilland is still alive
She turns 103 today
Now she too is gone. ⭐⭐
oooooooh, Leslie Howard was 46? good gravy. that lucky goose, how did he get in this movie??
The wanted him for his box office value. He was a big star. It was odd to seeing him in a supporting role.
Thank God the film was made in 1939.
"As the final preparations mounted, though the re-" and it cuts off. Where's the rest of it?
DESEARIA QUE LOSCOMENTARIOS FUERAN CON SUBTÍTULOS EN ESPAÑOL, PORQUE SON MUY INTERESANTES.
scarlet ashley melanie oliver red i still strugie to see the threathen creates in gones with the winds mental handicapped helping each persecutors
05:00 bravo..👏😄
3:30...Ann Rutherford is so funny, she always talked non stop and poor Evelyn Keyes only gets in one word.
Katherine Hepburn accurately stated: Lawrence Olivier, first rate actor, second rate human being. Olivier hated his wife was the perfect actress for the best role Hollywood offered to a woman in the golden age of Hollywood.
His love letters to Vivien have been published,they clearly adored one another.
From everything I've seen and read and according to credible Vivien Leigh sources The Olivier's loved and adored each other tremendously.