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Confined to her bed in Atlanta by a broken ankle and arthritis, she was given a stack of blank paper by her husband, who said, "Write a book." Did she ever. The novel's first title became its last words, "Tomorrow is another day," and at first she named the protagonist Pansy. But Pansy became Scarlett, and the title of the book published 70 years ago this week became "Gone With the Wind." You might think that John Steinbeck, not Margaret Mitchell, was the emblematic novelist of the 1930s, and that the publishing event in American fiction in that difficult decade...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Hattie McDaniel, the first black actress to win an Academy Award, was honored Wednesday with a U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamp. McDaniel is the 29th person honored in the Postal Service's long-running Black Heritage stamp series. The 39-cent stamp depicts the plump-faced McDaniel in a 1941 photograph in the blue dress she wore when she received the Oscar for best supporting actress in "Gone with the Wind" in February 1940. McDaniel played Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 movie about the Civil War. "She was a most special lady," McDaniel's "Gone with the Wind" co-star Ann Rutherford...

'GWTW's' Mammy was first black actress to win Oscar BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- Hattie McDaniel, the first black actress to win an Academy Award, was honored Wednesday with a U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamp. McDaniel is the 29th person honored in the Postal Service's long-running Black Heritage stamp series. The 39-cent stamp depicts the plump-faced McDaniel in a 1941 photograph in the blue dress she wore when she received the Oscar for best supporting actress in "Gone with the Wind" in February 1940. McDaniel played Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 movie about the Civil War. "She was a...

Olivia de Havilland, the great star of a platoon of Hollywood's finest including "Gone With the Wind," "The Adventures of Robin Hood," "The Heiress" and "The Snake Pit," all of which regularly and prominently show up on "best of" and "favorite movie" lists, has certainly had her share of prestigious awards through the years: Oscars (1946, 1949), Golden Globes (1949, 1986), back-to-back best actress wins from the New York Film Critics Circle (1948, 1949) and a best actress prize at the Venice film fest (1948) among them. But next year, on June 15, this amazing and quite indefatigable woman will...

'Gone With the Wind' Popular in Britain Mon Nov 29, 2:00 PM ET By The Associated Press LONDON - "Gone With the Wind," the American Civil War saga starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, is the most-watched movie in British history, according to the British Film Institute. AP Photo Some 35 million people have seen "Gone With the Wind" since its release in Britain in 1940, according to a tally of movie ticket sales, the institute said Sunday. "The Sound of Music" is in the No. 2 spot with an estimated 30 million tickets sold since its release in 1965,...

....snip...... Based on Margaret Mitchell's hugely popular novel, producer David O. Selznick's four-hour epic tale of the American South during slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction is the all-time box-office champion. .......snip........ Considering its financial success and critical acclaim, "Gone With the Wind" may be the most famous movie ever made. It's also a lie. ......snip......... Along with D.W. Griffith's technically innovative but ethically reprehensible "The Birth of a Nation" (from 1915), which portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroic, "GWTW" presents a picture of the pre-Civil War South in which slavery is a noble institution and slaves are content...