When you look at the sheer cast numbers, characters, cameras, extras, scene you can see the sheer complexity behind the making of the film you can see it had never been done before and will never be done again despite all the green screens special effects of modernity will never be done again. Sheer masterpiece, Selznick and Vivien
How come we never tire from watching those videos on the making and behind the scenes of GWTW? We have seen all those photos of the actors several times but here we are again: in awe. Forever.
What a beautiful 'behind-the-scenes' moment for Gone with the Wind! Back then, I'm not sure whether they realized that they were creating classics and setting high benchmark for movie industry! All of the aspects, the production, artistic skills and cast are such enjoyment to watch and out of all, it IS a literature adaptation which making it an epitome of art-literature genre too. Hard to top even years gone by. Great storyline and lessons to dug up!
Beautiful beautiful lady. Such a difficult life enduring mental health issues and her life cut short by TB. I adored her In GWTW...the most perfect Scarlett. Loved Siamese cats ....they are my passion as well.
Thank you, and I commend you for the good taste in choosing the Chopin music (as opposed to many terrible music in other similar videos about Vivien and GWTW).
Could never understand where they came up with Leslie Howard to play Ashley Wilkes. In the book Ashley would have been in his early 20s at the start of the story; Leslie Howard was almost 50! Even Leslie Howard thought he was miscast in the part. I certainly agree.
I always thought Laurence Olivier would have been a good choice. Still older than Ashley in the book but younger than Clark Gable. And I'm sure Vivien Leigh would not have objected in the least! ;-)
@@donaldkane1714 I agree, but at the time GWTW was being cast, he was mainly known as a B movie actor and he was having trouble fining parts even in B movies, let alone a potential blockbuster like GWTW.
@@DoubleDogDare54 What about Randolph Scott or Franchot Tone? They were big stars at the time, but maybe not that much younger than Howard. It was the toughest role in the picture to cast well.
to omgbygollywow: Not if you keep in mind the movie was filmed three quarters of a century before you posted. That's plenty of time for the participating adults to have lived full lives and die natural deaths.
During the war, Leslie Howard, best remembered today for his role as Ashley in "Gone With The Wind", and one of the finest British film directors of the day, made a dramatised film of the story of the development of the Spitfire. It is more poignant for knowing that Howard himself was killed by the Nazis later in the war when an aeroplane carrying him home to England over the Bay of Biscay was singled out for interception by the Luftwaffe**. Called "The First Of The Few" and first shown in cinemas in 1942 **Howard's manager, Alfred Chenhalls who was also on the flight, bore a resemblance to Winston Churchill and it seems likely that the aircraft was targeted because the Germans thought the Prime Minister was aboard, certainly after it was shot down the rumours of the "death of Churchill" spread throughout the German Forces in France. Incidently, Howard and Chenhall's departure on their ultimate flight had been delayed by 3 days so that they could attend the Portugese premier of "The First of the Few". A full description of the events leading up to Howard's death can be read in an article by Richard Garrett in the book "Great Unsolved Mysteries" , edited by John Canning, published by Guild publishing in 1984. Frank Falla, a Channel-Island newspaper man who was imprisoned in France for publishing an underground newspaper, tells of his German guards celebrating the "death of Churchill" in his book "The Silent War" (Published by Leslie Frewin 1967, reprinted by Burbridge Ltd in the Channel Islands 1981)
Olivia De Haviland born July 1, 1916, which would make her 102 this summer in 2018. Yikes, wonder what she's taking cuz I'd like to have some of that !
Their salaries were ridiculously low in comparison to the salaries of today. Clark got 117,000 while Vivien received about 30,000. Hattie got 6,500. The list of the others are similar. But the film topped 20 million in five months. I don't know the production costs, but GWTW made a huge profit.
@@Brucev7 What is 20 million in today's Dollars? Of course things cost less then. I have often considered that some additional money was under the table for tax purposes. Maybe after GWTW became success . Could Hattie's salary of $6500 been enough to purchase the house she lived in after filming finished? She still would have taxes come out of it, also. I don't know. Costs were less, but that was a large HOME.
@@idfy2599 Tens of Millions of Americans, not even counting, worldwide, would kill for $554,000. Especially post pandemic. No telling where the money came from. Inheritance, co-star(s), fund raising, husband, boyfriend, loan, great deal on the house.
Interesting to see the shots of Gable and Cukor both smiling for the cameras, considering that Gable loathed Cukor's homosexuality and feared Cukor would "throw" the film to the women.
My first reaction is it was Cammie King, who played Bonnie Butler, but I really think it is Vivien Leigh's daughter, Suzanne Holman. She would have been about five at the time. The reason I think it is Vivien's daughter as the little girl appears to have blond hair (Suzanne was blond) whereas Cammie King's hair was black in the movie. Plus Vivien is dressed in the dress she wore to the barbecue at Twelve Oaks, at which point "Bonnie" wasn't around.
Seeing as how there's only one girl in the movie that was an easy, obvious guess that anybody could offer. But really, the pictured girl looks NOTHING like the little actress who played Bonnie Blue, Cammie King. Re answering boi76311's question.@@animetrash6237
Not Cammie, but I've always liked Bonnie's real name. iirc, it was Eugenie Victoria Butler In the book of course, there was Wade Hampton Hamilton and Ella Lorena Kennedy. I've always been amused by how reading the book, then watching the movie, is like being on amphetamines...just zipping through.
I'm still a live .look another girl at this movie series before. We can't me go back at Philippine .but now still me there in Bangkok is a city .of the nation of Thailand now .we make one Bangkok Thailand is one already since I go back to the Philippine country.
Some people actually arguing over a lady’s picture taken 80 years ago. And some people think a movie about slavery and the civil war is racist, hahahahaha hahahahaha I mean you can’t make this up that’s how stupid some people are. Yes slavery was racist duh.
I love the movie , but i did not like Scarlett.I think she was a nasty horrible person.She used other people too get what she want.I do not like that kind of people in real life either.
@Michael Irvin I have not read the book.No i did not expect her too be Mrs cleaver.But i do not remember all the men she used.Wad IT Mr cleaver WHO was in the war, the one she was deeply in love with?I am glad he get away from her.
I agree Scarlett wasn't "nice" but that's how she was written in the book. She was spoiled and later did what she had to do to survive. Even Scarlett herself realized that. She wanted to be a "Great Lady" like her mother but knew she fell far short of that. That is what makes her such a fascinating character, but yes you really wouldn't want to know her really.
Yeah everything is always racist haha even a movie about slavery and the civil war hahahahaha duh? Are you kidding? Yes slavery was racist lol. Hahahahaha and 650 thousand people got killed over it, don’t ever forget that, it was white people too.
When you look at the sheer cast numbers, characters, cameras, extras, scene you can see the sheer complexity behind the making of the film you can see it had never been done before and will never be done again despite all the green screens special effects of modernity will never be done again. Sheer masterpiece, Selznick and Vivien
The book is better.
How come we never tire from watching those videos on the making and behind the scenes of GWTW? We have seen all those photos of the actors several times but here we are again: in awe. Forever.
Absolutely correct❣️❣️👍
We never get tired of perfection
❤ Be still, my Scarlett - loving heart.. GWTW embodies so Much! / Perfection is a part of that; a lost but always remembered world..
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God the costumes were all ridiculously divine and she looked transcendent in all of them
THE WAY SCARLET JUST REPRESENTS BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE.....
She just looks so perfect in those dresses
What a beautiful 'behind-the-scenes' moment for Gone with the Wind! Back then, I'm not sure whether they realized that they were creating classics and setting high benchmark for movie industry! All of the aspects, the production, artistic skills and cast are such enjoyment to watch and out of all, it IS a literature adaptation which making it an epitome of art-literature genre too. Hard to top even years gone by. Great storyline and lessons to dug up!
When ever I see her, I always wish she could have lived forever so I could imagine her beauty on a daily bases.
Beautiful beautiful lady. Such a difficult life enduring mental health issues and her life cut short by TB. I adored her In GWTW...the most perfect Scarlett. Loved Siamese cats ....they are my passion as well.
Thank you so much for this great video...God Bless you..
How much i adore Vivien Leigh..
You do. I've read many of your comments. Good for you.
Thank you, and I commend you for the good taste in choosing the Chopin music (as opposed to many terrible music in other similar videos about Vivien and GWTW).
A bit of a cliche tho
@4everGWTW: Thank you for sharing this with us GWTW fans. What a great movie and it's nice to see pictures from behind the scenes.
Loooooveeeeeee this movie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Selznick, Victor Fleming, these men were masters of the craft.
初めてGWTWを観たのはTVの放映でした。
当時は夢多き若い頃、スカーレットの住む豪邸やお庭、たくさんの素敵な衣装に憧れるとともに過酷な運命や彼女が望んでも叶わなかった恋やレットの恋などたくさん学ぶところがある映画でした。
当時は両親が元気に働いていてピアノを趣味としていた自分、今は私だけになってしまいました。
ショパンのノクターンを聴きながら映画の裏側を見ていくうちに涙が溢れてきました。
華やかな人生ではなかったけど大切な人がそばにいるのは幸せなことだと思えるのです。
Timelessness in all it’s iconic glory
There will only be one GWTW
That sizes it up
Could never understand where they came up with Leslie Howard to play Ashley Wilkes. In the book Ashley would have been in his early 20s at the start of the story; Leslie Howard was almost 50! Even Leslie Howard thought he was miscast in the part. I certainly agree.
I always thought David Niven or Ray Milland would have fit the part better.
I always thought Laurence Olivier would have been a good choice. Still older than Ashley in the book but younger than Clark Gable. And I'm sure Vivien Leigh would not have objected in the least! ;-)
@@DoubleDogDare54 Robert Cummings would have been the right age and the right type for Ashley.
@@donaldkane1714 I agree, but at the time GWTW was being cast, he was mainly known as a B movie actor and he was having trouble fining parts even in B movies, let alone a potential blockbuster like GWTW.
@@DoubleDogDare54 What about Randolph Scott or Franchot Tone?
They were big stars at the time, but maybe not that much younger than
Howard. It was the toughest role in the picture to cast well.
How many are still living today (Sept. 1, 2012)? I think even the little girl who played Bonnie Butler is deceased. So sad.
Most of the little people who played the Munchins in this film are still alive....
to omgbygollywow: Not if you keep in mind the movie was filmed three quarters of a century before you posted. That's plenty of time for the participating adults to have lived full lives and die natural deaths.
None are alive anymore its sad but thats the cycle of life
leslie died in plane crash. churchill was supposed to have had his seat.
During the war, Leslie Howard, best remembered today for his role as Ashley in "Gone With The Wind", and one of the finest British film directors of the day, made a dramatised film of the story of the development of the Spitfire. It is more poignant for knowing that Howard himself was killed by the Nazis later in the war when an aeroplane carrying him home to England over the Bay of Biscay was singled out for interception by the Luftwaffe**. Called "The First Of The Few" and first shown in cinemas in 1942
**Howard's manager, Alfred Chenhalls who was also on the flight, bore a resemblance to Winston Churchill and it seems likely that the aircraft was targeted because the Germans thought the Prime Minister was aboard, certainly after it was shot down the rumours of the "death of Churchill" spread throughout the German Forces in France. Incidently, Howard and Chenhall's departure on their ultimate flight had been delayed by 3 days so that they could attend the Portugese premier of "The First of the Few". A full description of the events leading up to Howard's death can be read in an article by Richard Garrett in the book "Great Unsolved Mysteries" , edited by John Canning, published by Guild publishing in 1984. Frank Falla, a Channel-Island newspaper man who was imprisoned in France for publishing an underground newspaper, tells of his German guards celebrating the "death of Churchill" in his book "The Silent War" (Published by Leslie Frewin 1967, reprinted by Burbridge Ltd in the Channel Islands 1981)
Olivia De Haviland born July 1, 1916, which would make her 102 this summer in 2018. Yikes, wonder what she's taking cuz I'd like to have some of that !
Probably good genes. Her sister, Joan Fontaine, lived to be 96, her dad lived to be 96 and her mother made it to 89.
You know she was a beauty too and they both were British.
So pleased to see
Their salaries were ridiculously low in comparison to the salaries of today. Clark got 117,000 while Vivien received about 30,000. Hattie got 6,500. The list of the others are similar. But the film topped 20 million in five months. I don't know the production costs, but GWTW made a huge profit.
$117,000 i worth $2M, $30K is worth $554K in Today's Dollar. And living expenses, food, clothing, automobiles were much lower in 1939.
Yes. Exactly
@@Brucev7 What is 20 million in today's Dollars? Of course things cost less then. I have often considered that some additional money was under the table for tax purposes. Maybe after GWTW became success . Could Hattie's salary of $6500 been enough to purchase the house she lived in after filming finished? She still would have taxes come out of it, also. I don't know. Costs were less, but that was a large HOME.
@@idfy2599 Tens of Millions of Americans, not even counting, worldwide, would kill for $554,000. Especially post pandemic.
No telling where the money came from. Inheritance, co-star(s), fund raising, husband, boyfriend, loan, great deal on the house.
In the Great Depression? Surly you jest. lol 😂 you know what you could buy for 100$?
Nocturne E flat major. Chopin.
Best background music among all the Vivien Leigh and GWTW videos I've watched on youtube. It's telling about the taste of the uploader.
Interesting to see the shots of Gable and Cukor both smiling for the cameras, considering that Gable loathed Cukor's homosexuality and feared Cukor would "throw" the film to the women.
It went that way naturally.
Well Gable got his way when the manly Victor Fleming was directing.
Isn't Melanie (Olivia DeHaviland) still alive? Like 100 or 101 and counting?
Yes. She lives in Paris. She's been there for the last 60 years.
She’s over 100.
Your comment is an year old. She's still alive. May she get many many more years in the World.
This coming July 1st she will be 104.
She dead now ...
Iove this❤️
the original soundtrack please!
Yes would have been much better. I don't think Chopin would have written music for this film.
Это шедевр
Gable - holy cow - what a man!
3:25 Sometimes a Good God in the Heavens allows The Angel to descend to Earth and take a Human Form. Robert 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💔💔💔💔💔
Wonderful
what's the name of this song?
Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 9 no. 2 - Frederic Chopin
Why do people insist on referring to classical instrumental music as a "song"?
1:00 Sometimes a Good God in the Heavens allows The Angel to descend to Earth and take a Human Form. Robert 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💔💔💔💔💔
Must have been hard filming in those days for crew & actors.
初めて見る写真ばかりで、びっくり。
who is the little girl at 1:18?
boi76311 i think thats bonnie
It could be Vivians biological daughter,she was probably around the set.
My first reaction is it was Cammie King, who played Bonnie Butler, but I really think it is Vivien Leigh's daughter, Suzanne Holman. She would have been about five at the time. The reason I think it is Vivien's daughter as the little girl appears to have blond hair (Suzanne was blond) whereas Cammie King's hair was black in the movie. Plus Vivien is dressed in the dress she wore to the barbecue at Twelve Oaks, at which point "Bonnie" wasn't around.
Seeing as how there's only one girl in the movie that was an easy, obvious guess that anybody could offer. But really, the pictured girl looks NOTHING like the little actress who played Bonnie Blue, Cammie King. Re answering boi76311's question.@@animetrash6237
Not Cammie, but I've always liked Bonnie's real name. iirc, it was Eugenie Victoria Butler In the book of course, there was Wade Hampton Hamilton and Ella Lorena Kennedy.
I've always been amused by how reading the book, then watching the movie, is like being on amphetamines...just zipping through.
History
Who is the child at 1:19 this is precious
I'm still a live .look another girl at this movie series before. We can't me go back at Philippine .but now still me there in Bangkok is a city .of the nation of Thailand now .we make one Bangkok Thailand is one already since I go back to the Philippine country.
This Chopin nocture is very useful since the film itself has no soundtrack (let alone a remarkable one) 🙄
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Some people actually arguing over a lady’s picture taken 80 years ago. And some people think a movie about slavery and the civil war is racist, hahahahaha hahahahaha I mean you can’t make this up that’s how stupid some people are. Yes slavery was racist duh.
Ein so alter Film u nicht altmodisch
Th epiano is outof tune
I love the movie , but i did not like Scarlett.I think she was a nasty horrible person.She used other people too get what she want.I do not like that kind of people in real life either.
@Michael Irvin I have not read the book.No i did not expect her too be Mrs cleaver.But i do not remember all the men she used.Wad IT Mr cleaver WHO was in the war, the one she was deeply in love with?I am glad he get away from her.
Then l would say she did her job well good acting :)
I agree Scarlett wasn't "nice" but that's how she was written in the book. She was spoiled and later did what she had to do to survive. Even Scarlett herself realized that. She wanted to be a "Great Lady" like her mother but knew she fell far short of that. That is what makes her such a fascinating character, but yes you really wouldn't want to know her really.
Scarlett was a narcissist. But she saved everyone she loved. Quite the conundrum or steel magnolia as they call it. You have to love to hate her.
Nice, racist but nice. Not many pix Of Hattie McDaniel… actually… NONE
Yeah everything is always racist haha even a movie about slavery and the civil war hahahahaha duh? Are you kidding? Yes slavery was racist lol. Hahahahaha and 650 thousand people got killed over it, don’t ever forget that, it was white people too.
racist
Why are you here if you think that?
Not really