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.
(Excerpt) Read more at huntingtonnews.net ...
The clock was turned back for the premiere of Gone with the Wind at the Loews Grand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia? This beautiful theater was sadly destroyed by fire in 1978 but many folks still remember when Hollywood came to Atlanta to celebrate that wonderful movie and Atlanta’s own author Margaret Mitchell whose book about the Southern people and the War Between the States would be read by millions of people around the world and be made into an exciting motion picture that has become a classic.
Do you remember when a movie premiere was a red carpet affair of excitement and you could take your family to the movies without worrying about the language or sexual content of the film?
“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.
Ann Rutherford, who died on Monday, June 11, 2012, was a friend of Marietta and was present for the 70th Anniversary re-premiere of Gone with the Wind at Marietta, Georgia’s beautifully restored Strand Theater. Atlanta loved Ann Rutherford!
Mrs. Rutherford was also present at the premiere of Gone with the Wind, arriving in Atlanta, Georgia at 10 AM on December 13, 1939 at the Terminal Railroad Station and stayed at the Georgina Terrace Hotel as most of the stars. The railroad station was torn down in 1972 but the building that was the hotel still remains.
Two years before the United States entered World War II; there was great jubilation throughout America, especially in the Southland, in anticipation of the world premiere of…..
Gone with the Wind during the Christmas Season of 1939, just 74 years after the end of the "War Between the States" and Saturday, December 15, 2012 marks the 73rd anniversary of that classic movie which opens with: "There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind."
Gone with the Wind won 8 Oscars for 1939, including Best Picture, and;
Hattie McDaniel, the first Black American to win an Academy Award, expressed her heart-felt pride with tears of joy, when she was presented the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her unforgettable role as "Mammy."
Victor Fleming won the Academy Award for Best Director and even though Max Steiner did not receive an award for his excellent music score, the "Gone with the Wind" theme song has become the most recognizable and played tune in the world.
Vivien Leigh, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role, humbly and eloquently summed her appreciation by thanking Producer David O. Selznick.
And, who can forget Olivia De Havilland as the pure-sweet Melanie Hamilton, Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler.
Atlanta’s Mayor William B. Hartsfield proclaimed a three-day festival for this grand event and encouraged all women to wear hoop skirts and men to wear Old South attire.
Friday, December 15, 1939, has been described as an icy-cold day in Atlanta but folks warmed to the excitement of the premiere of "Gone with the Wind"--The Selznick International Pictures "Technicolor" Production of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Release of Margaret Mitchell’s novel about the Old South at the Loews Grand Theater.
Do you remember Thomas Mitchell who played (Gerald O’Hara) telling daughter Scarlett:
"Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts."
And, we all wept when Bonnie Blue Butler, the daughter of Rhett and Scarlett—played by Cammie King, was killed in a pony accident.
Anne Rutherford, who played Scarlett’s sister Carreen, took time to visit the Confederate Veterans at the soldier’s home and the stars toured the famous "Cyclorama" at nearby Grant Park.
The festivities surrounding the premiere of Gone with the Wind included a parade down Peachtree Street with over three-hundred thousand people cheering the playing of "Dixie," waving Confederate flags and shouting Rebel Yells.
Many people also witnessed the lighting of the "Eternal Flame of the Confederacy," an 1855 gas lamp that survived the 1864 Battle of Atlanta. The lamp remained for many years on the northeast corner of Whitehall and Alabama Streets. Mrs. Thomas J. Ripley, President of Atlanta Chapter No. 18 United Daughters of the Confederacy, re-lit the great light with Mr. T. Guy Woolford, Commandant of the Old Guard by her side.
April 2013 is Confederate History Month. Read more at: http://www.facebook.com/ConfederateHeritageMonth
Frankly, I don’t give a damn...........
Gone With The Wind was a Movie that helps Southerners deal with the fact that they lost the CW.
The Confederacy is dead, and the evil system it perpetuated died with it.
It will not return, nor should it.
“Gone With The Wind was a Movie that helps Southerners deal with the fact that they lost the CW.”
The wasteland that was created and the dead women, children, old men and boys, burned family homes that never saw a slave and devastated family farms with smoking carcasses and dead lands helped them realize it, too. What a glorious victory it was!
Hallelujah, brother.
As Sherman said, “War Is Hell!”
It certainly is when war ciminals command armies.
As Sherman said, “War Is Hell!”
As he also said, “Kill everything that moves, whether it’s a combatant or not!”
The kindest thing that could possibly be said about General William T. Sherman, Commanding General of the United States during the War Between the States, is that he was stark, raving mad. If he was insane - as many contemporary newspapers alleged and as he actually once claimed to be - then it might offer the only lame defense for the dastardly deeds of the United States’ most infamous war criminal.
Sherman, with the blessing and enthusiastic approval of General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln, waged “Total War” against defenseless civilians throughout the Confederate States of America, 1861 - 1865. It was truly a “War of Northern Aggression” against a people who only wanted to be left alone.
General Sherman was personally responsible for the pillaging, plundering and burning of countless defenseless cities, towns and homes. He and his barbaric Union troops brought wrought total destruction on farms, livestock and civilian food supplies. They turned thousands of women and children out into the winter cold, leaving them to fend for themselves with no food and no shelter. He and his troops hauled thousands of wagon loads of stolen Southern goods back to the North. They gang raped both black and white women and slaughtered thousands of innocent Americans, including old men, women, and children of all races.
Sherman had no shame. Here are some of his own words that illustrate his maniacal lust for blood. In a letter to his wife he said of the southern secessionists: “why death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better . . . . Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction of its roads, houses, and people will cripple their military resources”
In an order to one of his generals, Thomas Ewing (Order #11) Sherman said “There is a class of people (in the South), men women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order.”
And again to his wife he wrote from north Georgia, “I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash.”
“The Government of the United States has in North Alabama,” Sherman once declared, “any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war - to take their lives, their homes, their lands, their everything . . . . war is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact.” “We will . . . take every life, every acre of land, every particle of property, everything that to us seems proper,”
Sherman’s own words condemn him.
I do wish I was with seemingly everyone else on this movie. It was a waste of four hours of my life. What am I missing?
The first third is quite good.
“General Sherman was personally responsible for the pillaging, plundering and burning of countless defenseless cities, towns and homes. He and his barbaric Union troops brought wrought total destruction on farms, livestock and civilian food supplies. They turned thousands of women and children out into the winter cold, leaving them to fend for themselves with no food and no shelter. He and his troops hauled thousands of wagon loads of stolen Southern goods back to the North. They gang raped both black and white women and slaughtered thousands of innocent Americans, including old men, women, and children of all races.”
Sherman got the job done. Hope we have more like him ON OUR SIDE the next time we need them. And as far I’ve researched, I’ve never seen any evidence that Sherman raped anyone.
I’ll keep that in mind.
He fought modern, total war. The South was poorly prepared to fight, but long on bombast.
Oh, and just so you know — My ancestor fought in the 1st Ssouth Carolina Inf and the 25th South Carolina Inf. Captured at the Battle of Weldon Railroad (Petersburg) and spent the remainder of the war as a guest at Point Lookout.
I can not believe that educated Americans can and will hold a grudge for somewthing that happened 150 or so years ago.
When are you going to let go? Just curious.
“Sherman got the job done. Hope we have more like him ON OUR SIDE the next time we need them.”
Not for me, thanks. I don’t follow psychotics who kill civilians. Good luck with that, though.
A classic by 1939 standards, but a damn good comedy by today’s. I can’t but laugh at the corny acting and script in this longggggg drawn out movie.
“I can not believe that educated Americans can and will hold a grudge for somewthing that happened 150 or so years ago. When are you going to let go? Just curious.”
Who the hell is carrying a grudge? You are the one that’s running your credits. Personally, I don’t give a shit if you fought the war yourself. I was just correcting the error of history and the glorification of murderers. I wouldn’t let anyone talk about Hitler being a real good guy who was just trying to rebuild Germany without speaking up, either. History has a way of getting twisted. Sherman was a psychotic mass murderering, sick SOB.
You don’t want to start questioning someone’s education based on this, really, do you?
When are you going to let go? Just curious."
Who brought it up in the first place?
What am I missing?
answer: Southern blood..age...education...and lack of real history..
If some do not understand what that Spirit of the Confederacy is, then you must remain silent regarding this last election, or any of the new regulations and laws that are destroying America.
Perhaps those that want to Damn the South, should take a look around. What have you lost since Obama? Feel that spirit rising up within you now, as you say over and over on FR, "We just want to be left alone, get the government out of our lives".
. Perhaps Obama will send another SHERMAN to quell your resistance, hmmmm?
NEVER........We will never let the Spirit of the Confederacy die......it is not that hard to understand , as it is the same Spirit of resistance you read every day right here in FR. same/same
I'm not sure if the Confederacy is rising again, but the Union is most assuredly sinking.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.