Posted on 11/27/2012 2:16:28 PM PST by BigReb555
“News that Ann Rutherford, who played Scarlett O’Hara’s little sister, died Monday brought tears to the eyes of Connie Sutherland, director of Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum”—June 13, 2012 the Marietta Daily Journal, Marietta, Georgia.
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I also saw GWTW on the big screen in the 70’s. There must have been more than a few husbands/boyfriends that were dragged into seeing a Saturday night showing. Towards the end when Rhett says to Scarlett, “I don’t give a damn” and walks out on her, there was huge spontaneous applause and whistles from most of the men in the audience. I wasn’t sure if it was because Rhett left Scarlett begging or that the movie was finally over. It was hysterical.
Well, that would be BigReb555.
I know I’m missing something, because it is so well-liked by so many whose views I respect. May of whom are not Souterners.
Well there it is...no self respecting Southerner would ever respect the opinion or views of a yankee.
Really? Never?
Oh, well, I shouldn’t disparage anything that others like so well, esp a great American movie.
Good profile!
My father is named after General Wade Hampton, richest man in the US before the war due to plantations and slave ownership, as was my grandfather. Gen Hampton saw the war all the way through, succeeding Stuart after he was killed, as head of the CSA cavalry...
Sherman went to his death denying he set fire to Columbia, SC because of Hampton...he lied all the way to Hell.
There’s a good article here:
On the civil war. Title: Civil War death toll could be 130,000 higher than we thought, says historian
Lots of great civil war era photographs.
Are you kidding me?
For cinematography, it was ahead of it’s time; for swearing, too; excellent story and depiction of war; the love story was predictable but the citing excellent for the time....
Get your head out of the present-day CG world, use your imagination and try to appreciate it for the grand cinematic spectacle it was of that age.
Well, tell it to the Mooslims who are still pissed about the Crusades....
I had three different ancestors who served in the Civil War.
I mentioned that once to a Californian, who then asked what side they fought on.
“The side that won,” I replied with pride.
“Which side was that?” came the reponse.
True story.
“...I don’t follow psychotics who kill civilians...” on purpose....
FIFY
They must have seen the porn version Blowin With The Wind.
I apologize in advance.
To this day, if I’m not mistaken, more Southerners than any part of the country sign up to put their lives on the line to serve...
Cynics might say it’s because the South sucks and they want to get away...
We Southerners know that sacrificing for a cause greater than one’s self is to serve honorably.
Exactly....the cinematography alone is amazing. Vivian Leigh, a total unknown, was in almost every scene of a 4 hour movie, and gave the greatest performance i’ve ever seen from an actress. Name one today who could pull that role off...now that’s laughable. The Hollywood of today is a joke. If its not a “remake”..its silly animated fantasy cartoons.
Well, you are off to a good start...keep watching and you just might get it someday.
It’s also a rather feminist movie where a young woman who’s life has been devastated by war, shakes it off, squares her shoulders and gets down to making a life for herself, regardless of what she has to do to achieve it.
Definitely a movie before it’s time....
Wonderfully put...you are a credit to this forum...regards.
Comment at the end of article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151588/Civil-War-death-toll-higher-thought-historian-says.html#ixzz2DU7R2xz5
‘American need to stop buying the fairy tales they have been taught in gov’t schools. From an illegal military invasion of the Southern states, to illegal imprisonment of newspaper men that did not agree with him, to using troops with cannons on New Yorkers against the draft, to the support for massive rape-murder-pillage in the valley of Virginia and the “march to the sea”, Lincoln betrayed everything American and today would be a tried as a world class war criminal.’
It is definitely my favorite movie, and I was raised a Yankee ;) (in my defense, I have lived in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, and now southern Ohio on the WV border) Vivien Leigh was probably one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen (Audrey Hepburn is also up there). Too bad she had such a tragic life. My mom took me when I was 16 to see it on the big screen in 1989—the 50th anniversary. I still remember it fondly.
The long-accepted death toll of 620,000 between 1861 and 1865, cited by historians since 1900, was reconsidered by Binghamton University history demographics professor J. David Hacker. In research published in Civil War History, Prof Hacker said he's uncovered evidence that the toll is actually closer to 750,000.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151588/Civil-War-death-toll-higher-thought-historian-says.html#ixzz2DUA1dWGZ
Ever heard of Tucker’s War in the west? And the confederate saboutiers that made bombs that looked like big lumps of coal and used them to target riverboats up and down the Mississippi, many on their return trip while loaded with wounded; they were also supposed to have been involved in other attacks behind union lines on land, possibly including the Colt manufacturing facility in Connecticut....
“One of those sure he would not be allowed to return to his home in St. Louis was the convicted saboteur, Robert Louden. He had escaped from Union custody while being transferred from Gratiot prison to Alton prison during General Price’s raid the previous October, but a death penalty still hung over him should he ever be captured again. After the war, Louden would claim that on the night of April 26-27 he engineered the most gruesomely spectacular strike any of Tucker’s saboteurs ever attempted. Using another of Thomas Courtenay’s coal torpedoes, Louden said he had snuck aboard the Sultana at Memphis and deposited the bomb in the coal piles near her furnace. Shortly after leaving Memphis, Sultana’s boilers exploded, resulting in the deaths of over 1,700 Union POW’s returning to their homes from southern prison camps.”
Some of those involved who weren’t caught fled to the Caribbean and to Mexico.
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