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Original ‘Gone With The Wind’ script reveals secret ‘war’ over slavery, cut scenes
An unearthed shooting script for “Gone With The ... In one scene from the script, Scarlett (played by Vivien Leigh) hits house slave Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) with a rod.
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Gone With the Wind
MGM/Everett CollectionGone With the Wind, from left: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, 1939. Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie ...
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Why we can’t turn away from ‘Gone with the Wind’
But “Gone with the Wind” endures in popular culture. It is an account of slavery devoid of the physical abuse (save Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara’s legendary slap of Butterfly McQueen ...
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Georgia’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ museums are a big tourism draw – and that’s why at least one of them is changing its exhibit
Since December 2019 it has included prominent displays of the 1939 film’s two main African American actresses: Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen ... him. “Gone with the Wind” is ...
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Original 'Gone with the Wind' Script Reveals Behind-the-Scenes 'War' Over Depiction of Slavery
Historian David Vincent Kimel, who bought the original script in 2020, wrote about material that wasn't included in the final film in a new essay Gone with the Wind — the 1939 film often ...