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I first learned about Fox rejecting Wind in, of all places, a 1968-69 biography of the Beatles - it was mentioned in a chapter that described how British music reporters got the word about Dick Rowe at Decca rejecting them as I described above, and how they made sport enough of comparing that to the Fox rejection of Wind that Dick Rowe became the laughingstock of the British music industry.

They'd hardly be the first major entertainment figures to be dead wrong about something's prospective appeal, the very thing of it being a crap-shoot. It no further killed Fox after they turned down Gone With The Wind than did Jackie Gleason suffer when he refused to book Elvis Presley onto his hugely popular variety show, when he was one of the first to have the opportunity, saying, "I tell you, this kid can't make it." (Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan, of course, booked the kid and the rest was history.)