Gone with the Wind (1939) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) G | From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War. Directors: Margaret Mitchell (story of the old south "Gone with the Wind"), Sidney Howard (screenplay) Stars: a list of 28 titles created 06 Mar 2012 a list of 38 titles created 24 Feb 2014 a list of 41 titles created 02 Mar 2015 a list of 28 titles created 24 Oct 2015 a list of 21 titles created 6 months ago Title: Gone with the Wind (1939) 8.2/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 8 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 8 nominations. See more awards » Videos In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Director: Michael Curtiz When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. Director: William Wyler A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story. Director: Frank Capra A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Director: Billy Wilder A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

Director: Orson Welles An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Director: Billy Wilder After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. Director: David Lean A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. Director: Alfred Hitchcock A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Edit Storyline Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality.

But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com> Now in 70mm. wide screen and full stereophonic sound! [reissue] See more » Genres: 17 January 1940 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Lo que el viento se llevó See more » Filming Locations: $1,192,593 (USA) (26 June 1998) Gross: Mono (Western Electric Sound System) Color: Did You Know? Trivia The idea of a sequel to this film was scrapped, but in the 1990s there was a sequel in the form of a television miniseries. The series was Scarlett (1994), based on the sequel novel of the same name.

'Joanne Whalley' (qv was cast as Scarlett and 'Timothy Dalton' was cast as Rhett. See more » Goofs When Scarlett and Rhett meet for the first time in the library, there is a globe (or some type of round object) between them. Camera lights are visible in there. See more » Quotes [first lines] Brent Tarleton : What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow. Stuart Tarleton : War! Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually *want* a war? Brent Tarleton : We'll show 'em! Scarlett : Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war. Brent Tarleton : Not going to be any war? Stuart Tarleton : Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war. See more » Crazy Credits Opening credits prologue: 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 Slave... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind... See more » Connections Music based the traditional German Christmas carol "O Tannennbam" In the score at the bazaar in Atlanta and at the train depot (Mexico) – See all my reviews Gerard O'Hara (Thomas Mitchell), an Irish immigrant, settles in North Georgia and becomes a prosperous plantation owner By great luck he marries young Ellen Robillard (Barbara O'Neill) of Savannah, the daughter of one of the noblest Georgian families and becomes accepted by his aristocratic neighbors They are blessed with three daughters, Scarlett (Vivien Leigh), Suellen (Evelyn Keyes), and Carreen (Ann Rutherford).

Scarlett, the eldest, worships her mother Yet, under her beauty and Southern coquetry, she is charming, but proud, willful and vain She believes she is in love with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), a good-hearted young army captain But Ashley loves his cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), a delicate, selfless woman He is frightened by Scarlett's energy and animation And although he admits his feelings for her, he is afraid to marry her and decides to take Melanie for his bride When Scarlett loses Ashley she is more certain than ever that she must have him On their wedding day, she meets Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), a wealthy adventurer from an old Charleston family Rhett, a gamblerwho believes that self-interest is the motive of all human conductis attracted by Scarlett's beauty and realizes that they are equally merciless and conscienceless Vivien Leigh is magnificent as the spoiled, selfish southern belle... She carries the picture, and controls it... She reproduces the spirited character of Scarlett in all its fluent complexity... Clark Gablewith a smile and great light in his eyesis fascinating as the elegant, heroic gentleman ... He is perfect as the ladies man...

His dramatic high point is his scene crying in Melanie's presence... His love scenes with Scarlett give the picture a vibrancy that is one of its great attractions... The film begins with their first stormy meeting in the library at Twelve Oaks and intensifies at the Atlanta bazaar, when he shocks the confederacy by bidding $l00 "in gold," to dance with the newly widowed Mrs. Hamilton who cares for nothing but herself Hattie McDaniel gives a rich characterization as Mammy, Scarlett's shrewd black servant who was never fooled by Scarlett's airs and tears... With a memorable music score by Max Steiner, the film was an instant classic, winner of eight Academy Awards... 58 of 79 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Actress Who Played Scarlett O'Hara's Daughter in Movie Dies | Fox News Actress Who Played Scarlett O'Hara's Daughter in Movie Dies Published September 03, 2010 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 livefyre Email Print In this Jan.

25, 2006 photo, Ann-Marie Johnson, National First Vice President of the Screen Actors Guild second from right, joins Gone With the Wind cast, from left: Ann Rutherford, Cammie King Conlon, Mickey Kuhn, Patrick Curtis and Fred Crane to celebrate actress Hattie McDaniel's stamp. (AP) (AP2006) Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," has died at the age of 76. She died of lung cancer Wednesday morning at her Fort Bragg home on California's north coast, said friend Bruce Lewis. Her son, Matthew Ned Conlon, was by her side. Conlon was picked to play the small, but pivotal role of Bonnie Blue Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic at age 4. Her character's death in a fall from a pony irrevocably damages Rhett and Scarlett's tumultuous marriage. Conlon also voiced the young doe Faline in Walt Disney's "Bambi" three years later. It would be her final film role.

"My mother decided she wanted me to have a normal childhood," she wrote on her blog, which talked about her brief career and a memoir she published last year on her "Gone With the Wind" experience. She often joked with interviewers that she had "peaked at 5." The Los Angeles native graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in communications and spent two years editing California Pictorial magazine. She moved to Mendocino County 30 years ago, working as director of the Kelly House museum and as a publicist for the Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce and the Little River Inn. Conlon stayed in touch with her "Gone With the Wind" family. On Sunday night, she took a call from Olivia de Havilland, who played Scarlett's sweet-hearted nemesis Melanie in the film, her son said. "It's amazing because she is so much more than Bonnie Blue Butler, but ... that is what she is remembered for, and it's a pretty great thing to be remembered for," Matthew Conlon said.

"Nobody told it better than Mom -- when you debut in 'Gone with the Wind,' it's downhill." She told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat last year that she had few clear memories of her time on the studio lot that served as the set for the fictional plantation Tara. One was watching her stunt double for the pony scene, a male dwarf, smoking a cigarette while dressed in a reproduction of her riding habit costume. Another was being scratched by Clark Gable's mustache in the scene where Rhett Butler hugs and kisses his cherished daughter. "As the years have gone by, I realize it's an honor, and it's so humbling," she had said. "I had nothing to do with it. I was 5. They said 'Stand here. Do this.' And yet it's resulted in this incredible experience." Conlon spent much her adult life gamely reprising her Bonnie Blue days for "Gone With the Wind" enthusiasts. She appeared at parades, retrospectives, museum exhibits and anniversary celebrations for the film in both Georgia , where the movie was set, and in California. Just last year, she donned her hoop skirt and petticoat again to visit a middle school that was studying the Civil War.

"It wasn't her whole life, but she had a lot of fun with it," Lewis said. Conlon is survived by her son and a daughter, Katie Conlon Byrne. A memorial service is planned for next week in Fort Bragg. Another will be held in Los Angeles on Sept. 22 and a third at a later date in Marietta, Ga., home of the Gone With the Wind Museum. Advertisement Rhett Butler Rhett Butler played in the movie, Gone With the Wind, by Clark Gable Mitchell introduces Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind as the problem-solving pragmatist who is sure that the South cannot win a protracted war with the North. In the course of the novel, Rhett becomes increasingly enamored with the survivalist instincts of Scarlett O'Hara in the chaos surrounding the war. Like Thomas Sutpen and Charles Bon from Absalom, Absalom!, Rhett decides to join in the Southern cause, but unlike his fellow confederate, Ashley Wilkes , Rhett is not spiritually paralyzed by the South's loss. Rhett takes leave of Scarlett after rescuing her and Melanie Wilkes from the burning of Atlanta.

Scarlett cannot comprehend Rhett's sudden decision to fight, which underscores her total rejection of the Southern chivalric ideal. (from chapter 23 of Gone With the Wind) As they dashed down the street and bumped over the railroad tracks, Rhett applied the whip automatically. His face looked set and absent, as though he had forgotten where he was. His broad shoulders were hunched forward and his chin jutted out as though the thoughts in his mind were not pleasant. The heat of the fire made sweat stream down his forehead and cheeks but he did not wipe it off. They pulled into a side street, then another, then turned and twisted from one narrow street to another until Scarlett completely lost her bearings and the roaring of the flames died behind them. Still Rhett did not speak. He only laid on the whip with regularity. The red glow in the sky was fading now and the road became so dark, so frightening, Scarlett would have welcomed words, any words from him, even jeering, insulting words, words that cut. But he did not speak. Silent or not, she thanked Heaven for the comfort of his presence.

It was so good to have a man beside her, to lean close to him and feel the hard swell of his arm and know that he stood between her and unnamable terrors, even though he merely sat there and stared. "Oh, Rhett," she whispered clasping his arm, "What would we ever have done without you? I'm so glad you aren't in the army!" He turned his head and gave her one look, a look that made her drop his arm and shrink back. There was no mockery in his eyes now. They were naked and there was anger and something like bewilderment in them. His lip curled down and he turned his head away. For a long time they jounced along in a silence unbroken except for the faint wails of the baby and sniffles from Prissy. When she was able to bear the sniffling noise no longer, Scarlett turned and pinched her viciously, causing Prissy to scream in good earnest before she relapsed into frightened silence. Finally Rhett turned the horse at right angles and after a while they were on a wider, smoother road. The dim shapes of houses grew farther and farther apart and unbroken woods loomed wall-like on either side.

"We're out of town now," said Rhett briefly, drawing rein, "and on the main road to Rough and Ready." "Hurry. Don't stop!" "Let the animal breathe a bit." Then turning to her, he asked slowly: "Scarlett, are you still determined to do this crazy thing?" "Do what?" "Do you still want to try to get through to Tara? It's suicidal. Steve Lee's cavalry and the Yankee Army are between you and Tara." Oh, Dear God! Was he going to refuse to take her home, after all she'd gone through this terrible day? "Oh, yes! Yes! Please, Rhett, let's hurry. The horse isn't tired." "Just a minute. You can't go down to Jonesboro on this road. You can't follow the train tracks. They've been fighting up and down there all day from Rough and Ready on south. Do you know any other roads, small wagon roads or lanes that don't go through Rough and Ready or Jonesboro?" "Oh, yes," cried Scarlett in relief. "If we can just get near to Rough and Ready, I know a wagon trace that winds off from the main Jonesboro road and wanders around for miles.

Pa and I used to ride it. It comes out right near the MacIntosh place and that's only a mile from Tara." "Good. Maybe you can get past Rough and Ready all right. General Steve Lee was there during the afternoon covering the retreat. Maybe the Yankees aren't there yet. Maybe you can get through there, if Steve Lee's men don't pick up your horse." "I can get through?" "Yes, you." His voice was rough. "But Rhett--You--Aren't going to take us?" "No. I'm leaving you here." She looked around wildly, at the livid sky behind them, at the dark trees on either hand hemming them in like a prison wall, at the frightened figures in the back of the wagon--and finally at him. Had she gone crazy? Was she not hearing right? He was grinning now. She could just see his white teeth in the faint light and the old mockery was back in his eyes. "Leaving us? Where--where are you going?" "I am going, dear girl, with the army." She sighed with relief and irritation. Why did he joke at this time of all times? Rhett in the army!

After all he'd said about stupid fools who were enticed into losing their lives by a roll of drums and brave words from orators--fools who killed themselves that wise men might make money! "Oh, I could choke you for scaring me so! Let's get on." "I'm not joking, my dear. And I am hurt, Scarlett, that you do not take my gallant sacrifice with better spirit. Where is your patriotism, your love for Our Glorious Cause? Now is your chance to tell me to return with my shield or on it. But, talk fast, for I want time to make a brave speech before deporting for the wars." His drawling voice gibed in her ears. He was jeering at her and, somehow, she knew be was jeering at himself too. What was he talking about? Patriotism, shields, brave speeches? It wasn't possible that he meant what he was saying.

It just wasn't believable that he could talk so blithely of leaving her here on this dark road with a woman who might be dying, a new-born infant, a foolish black wench and a frightened child, leaving her to pilot them through miles of battle fields and stragglers and Yankees and fire and God knows what. Once, when she was six years old,she bad fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at Rhett, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated. "Rhett, you are joking!" She grabbed his arm and felt her tears of fright splash down her wrist. He raised her hand and kissed it arily. "Selfish to the end, aren't you, my dear? Thinking only of your own precious hide and not of the gallant Confederacy. Think how our troops will be heartened by my eleventh-hour appearance." There was a malicious tenderness in his voice. "Oh, Rhett," she wailed, "how can you do this to me? Why are you leaving me?" "Why?" he laughed jauntily.

"Because, perhaps, of the betraying sentimentality that lurks in all of us Southerners. Perhaps--perhaps because I am ashamed. Who knows?" "Ashamed? You should die of shame. To desert us here, alone, helpless--" "Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." He stepped abruptly down from the wagon and, as she watched him, stunned with bewilderment, he came around to her side of the wagon. "Get out," he ordered. She stared at him. He reached up roughly, caught her under the arms and swung her to the ground beside him. With a tight grip on her he dragged her several paces away from the wagon. She felt the dust and gravel in her slippers hurting her feet. The still hot darkness wrapped her like a dream, "I'm not asking you to understand or forgive. I don't give a damn whether you do either, for I shall never understand or forgive myself for this idiocy. I am annoyed at myself to find that so much quixoticism still lingers in me. But our fair Southland needs every man.

Didn't our brave Governor Brown say just that? Not matter. I'm off to the wars." He laughed suddenly, a ringing, free laugh that startled the echoes in the dark woods. "'I could not love thee, Dear, so much, loved I not Honour more.' That's a pat speech, isn't it? Certainly better than anything I can think up myself, at the present moment. For I do love you, Scarlett, in spite of what I said that night on the porch last month." His drawl was caressing and his hands slid up her bare arms, warm strong hands. "I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals. Neither of us cares a rap if the whole world goes to pot, so long as we are safe and comfortable." His voice went on in the darkness and she heard words, but they made no sense to her. Her mind was tiredly trying to take in the harsh truth that he was leaving her here to face the Yankees alone. Her mind said: "He's leaving me. He's leaving me." But no emotion stirred.

Then his arms went around her waist and shoulders and she felt the hard muscles of his thighs against her body and the buttons of his coat pressing into her breast. A warm tide of feeling, bewildering, frightening, swept over her, carrying out of her mind the time and place and circumstances. She felt as limp as a rag doll, warm, weak and helpless, and his supporting arms were so pleasant. "You don't want to change your mind about what I said last month? There's nothing like danger and death to give an added fillip. Be patriotic, Scarlett. Think how you would be sending a soldier to his death with beautiful memories." He was kissing her now and his mustache tickled her mouth, kissing her with slow, hot lips that were so leisurely as though he had the whole night before him. Charles had never kissed her like this. Never bad the kisses of the Tarleton and Calvert boys made her go hot and cold and shaky like this. He bent her body backward and his lips traveled down her throat to where the cameo fastened her basque. "Sweet," he whispered. "Sweet." She saw the wagon dimly in the dark and heard the treble piping of Wade's voice. "Muvver!

Wade fwightened!" Into her swaying, darkened mind, cold sanity came back with a rush and she remembered what she had forgotten for the moment--that she was frightened too, and Rhett was leaving her, leaving her, the damned cad. And on top of it all, he bad the consummate gall to stand here in the road and insult her with his infamous proposals. Rage and hate flowed into her and stiffened her spine and with one wrench she tore herself loose from his arms. "Oh, you cad!" she cried and her mind leaped about, trying to think of worse things to call him, things she had heard Gerald call Mr. Lincoln, the MacIntoshes and balky mules, but the words would not come. "You low-down, cowardly, nasty, stinking thing!" And because she could not think of anything crushing enough, she drew back her arm and slapped him across the mouth with all the force she had left. He took a step backward, his hand going to his face. "Ah," he said quietly and for a moment they stood facing each other in the darkness. Scarlett could bear his heavy breathing, and her own breath came in gasps as if.

she had been running hard. "They were right! Everybody was right! You aren't a gentleman!" "My dear girl," he said, "how inadequate." She knew he was laughing and the thought goaded her. "Go on! Go on now! I want you to hurry. I don't want to ever see you again. I hope a cannon ball lands right on you. I hope it blows you to a million pieces. I--" "Never mind the rest. I follow your general idea. When I'm dead on the altar of my country, I hope your conscience hurts you." She heard him laugh as he turned away and walked back toward the wagon. She saw him stand beside it, heard him speak and his voice was changed. courteous and respectful as it always was when he spoke to Melanie. "Mrs. Wilkes?" Prissy's frightened voice made answer from the wagon. "Gawdlmighty. Cap'n Butler! Miss Melly done fainted away back yonder." "She's not dead? Is she breathing?" "Yassuh, she breathin'." "Then she's probably better off as she is. If she were conscious, I doubt if she could live through all the pain.

Take good care of her. Prissy. Here's a shinplaster for you. Try not to be a bigger fool than you are." "Yassuh. Thankee suh." "Good-by. Scarlett." She knew he had turned and was facing her but she did not speak. Hate choked all utterance. His feet ground on the pebbles of the road and for a moment she saw his big shoulders looming up in the dark. Then he was gone. She could hear the sound of his feet for a while and then they died away. She came slowly back to the wagon, her knees shaking. Why had he gone, stepping off into the dark, into the war, into a Cause that was lost, into a world that was mad? Why had he gone, Rhett who loved the pleasures of women and liquor, the comfort of good food and soft beds, the feel of fine linen and good leather, who hated the South and jeered at the fools who fought for it? Now he had set his varnished boots upon a bitter road where hunger tramped with tireless stride and wounds and weariness and heartbreak ran like yelping wolves. And the end of the road was death.

He need not have gone. He was safe, rich, comfortable. But he had gone. leaving her alone in a night as black as blindness, with the Yankee Army between her and home. Now she remembered all the bad names she had wanted to call him but it was too late. She leaned her head against the bowed neck of the horse and cried. site navigation page Oldest surviving ‘Gone with the Wind’ cast member dies - NY Daily News Oldest surviving ‘Gone with the Wind’ cast member dies, age 98 Oldest surviving ‘Gone with the Wind’ cast member dies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Alicia Rhett, an actress who played one of the sisters of Ashley Wilkes in ‘Gone with the Wind,’ died Friday. She was 98. (Everett Collection / Everett Col) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday, January 4, 2014, 1:55 PM CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Alicia Rhett, an actress who played one of the sisters of Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind," died Friday. She was 98. Rhett died of natural causes about 5 p.m.

at the Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community in Charleston, said Gadsden spokeswoman Kimberly Farfone Borts. Rhett was the oldest surviving cast member of the 1939 film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Farfone said. Still-surviving cast members include Olivia de Havilland, 97, who played Ashley Wilkes' cousin and wife, Melanie Hamilton; Mary Anderson, 93, who played Maybelle Merriweather; and Mickey Kuhn, 81, who played Beau Wilkes, Farfone said. Rhett was born Feb. 1, 1915, in Savannah, Ga., Farfone said. She had been living at the retirement community in Charleston since August 2002. Alicia Rhett, top right, was the oldest surviving cast member of the 1939 Oscar-winning film. (Everett Collection / Everett Col) In the movie, India Wilkes is a sister of Ashley Wilkes, with whom Scarlett O'Hara is deeply in love before Ashley marries Melanie and Scarlett becomes involved with Rhett Butler. In addition to being an actress, Alicia Rhett also was a portrait artist and illustrator.

She sketched her fellow "Gone with the Wind" actors between takes of the film, Farfone said. Join the Conversation: Cammie King: Actress who played Bonnie Blue in 'Gone with the Wind' | The Independent Cammie King: Actress who played Bonnie Blue in 'Gone with the Wind' Wednesday 6 October 2010 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Cammie King appeared in only one motion picture, but it is one that is still (taking account of inflation) considered the most successful film ever made: Gone with the Wind (1939). King played Bonnie Blue, the daughter of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), who meets an untimely end when her horse throws her at a jump. She contributed to one more film – providing the voice of the young doe Faline in the Disney film Bambi (1942) – but it is as Bonnie Blue that she achieved lasting fame. "I peaked in show business at the age of five," she said.

"Imagine being in two classics and never doing another thing after that." Born Eleanore Cammack King in Los Angeles in 1934, she was the stepdaughter of Herbert Kalmus, head of the Technicolor corporation. Her older sister had been cast as Bonnie, but production took so long that by the time the shooting of her scenes was to start, she looked too old, and she suggested four-year-old Eleanore (already nicknamed Cammie), who was tested and immediately casted. With a cherubic face and bright blue eyes, she filled the role of the child who is initially to be called Eugenia Victoria, but when she is a week old her father admires her blue eyes, prompting Scarlett's cousin Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) to comment, "as blue as the bonnie blue flag". King recalled Clark Gable as "warm and friendly", adding, "when he kissed me, his moustache tickled. I'd tell that to my mother's friends and they'd swoon." In the film, Rhett dotes on Bonnie and takes her to London, where he promises her the sight of London Bridge.

"Will it be falling down?" she asks, but she quickly becomes homesick and anxious to see her mother, the wilful Scarlett. Later she displays similar wilfulness when she asks her parents to watch her prowess at jumping with her pony and, despite Rhett's warning that she is being too daring, goes ahead. "Just like Pa", says Scarlett, suddenly chilled as she recalls her father's death in a riding fall. Her premonition comes true, and Bonnie is fatally injured. (King later revealed that a 35-year-old dwarf was her double for the actual tumble.) Three years later, in Bambi, Disney's endearing portrait of the life of a deer, from childhood to becoming co-leader of the herd, she voiced the role of the young Faline, the doe for whom Bambi kills a rival, and whom he later rescues from a horde of mad dogs. By the time she was 12 years old, King had grown to 5ft 10in. "I sensed that I had a problem from the way that boys were reacting to me.

That ended my ambitions for an acting career." Later, though, she appeared frequently at conventions and film festivals, and she was one of the 10 surviving members of the cast who in 1989 attended a week-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Gone with the Wind's premiere in Atlanta. She is represented in four museums devoted to the movie, and last year she personally published a memoir, entitled Bonnie Blue Butler: A Gone with the Wind Memoir, though she candidly insisted that she had nothing to do with the film's great success. "I was five", she said. "They just said, 'Stand here. Do this.'" King, who graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in communications, worked as marketing co-ordinator for the Mendocino coast chamber of commerce, starting its film commission and making use of her fame to promote the Coast community and good causes, autographing photographs of herself with Clark Gable for visitors and hosting Bonnie Blue Butler tea parties as fund-raisers. "I'm awfully glad I played Bonnie," she said.

"The role really didn't change my life, but I don't recall ever meeting people, either in business or socially, where it doesn't come up." Tom Vallance Eleanore Cammack King, actress and businesswoman: born Los Angeles, California 5 August 1934; married firstly Ned Pollack (died 1965), 1971 Michael Conlon (divorced 1976; one son, one daughter); died Fort Bragg, California 1 September 2010. More about: Scarlett O'Hara | Gone With the Wind Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Gone With the Wind Wiki Scarlett O'Hara, as she appears in Gone With the Wind . Appears in Eugenie "Bonnie Blue" Victoria Butler (daughter; deceased) 16 - 28 (Gone With the Wind) c.

30s (Scarlett) Confederate States of America Fayette Female Academy Scarlett O'Hara is the main character in the 1970 musical Scarlett and the 1991 book Scarlett, considered a vastly inferior sequel to Gone with the Wind written under contract by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in 1994. Initially, author Margret Mitchell referred to her heroine as "Pansy" until just before publication. Upon advice from her editor, who felt readers would relate to the fiery character better under a more dramatic name, she changed the name to "Scarlett". Character Development Edit In the novel's opening line Margaret Mitchell declares that Scarlett O'Hara is not beautiful in a conventional sense. Instead she is described as a charming Southern belle who grows up in Georgia on a Clayton County plantation named Tara, named after the historic Hill of Tara in Ireland, in the years before the American Civil War. Scarlett is described as being sixteen years old at the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, which would put her approximate birth date in early 1845.

She is the oldest of three daughters, her younger sisters being the lazy and whiny Susan Elinor ("Suellen") and the gentle and kind Caroline Irene ("Carreen"). Her mother also gave birth to three younger sons, who were all named Gerald Jr. and died as infants. Shrewd and vain, but lacking in insight or analytical skills, Scarlett inherits the strong will of her Irish father Gerald O'Hara, but deeply desires to please her well-bred, gentle French American mother Ellen Robillard, from an aristocratic Savannah, Georgia family. Scarlett is secretly in love with Ashley Wilkes, son and scion to the neighboring plantation Twelve Oaks. Despite the wisdom of her father and her Mammy who insist that Ashley would make her a poor husband even if he were willing to flout convention to marry her, Scarlett is determined to try to win him. The attempt is a humiliating failure, made worse when she realizes her confession, rejection, and resultant temper tantrum were all witnessed by the smug Rhett Butler. When Ashley's engagement to meek and mild-mannered Melanie Hamilton is announced, out of hurt and spite she retaliates by marrying Melanie's brother, the shy and mild-mannered Charles Hamilton.

Only a few weeks into the war her new husband dies, not in combat but of measles. Soon after, Scarlett disgustedly finds herself pregnant from her brief, ill-fated marriage, and in time gives birth to a son she names Wade Hampton Hamilton. She does not fit well into either molds of grieving widow or blissful young mother. Upon advice of her mother she moves to Atlanta to stay with Melanie and her ineffective, childlike Aunt Pittypat. Following a Christmas visit from Ashley, Melanie too becomes pregnant, but lacking Scarlett's robust constitution, the pregnancy goes hard on her. Scarlett's patience, never her strong suit, is tried to the limit as Melanie's failing strength requires near constant nursing. She goes into labor just as General Sherman begins his advance on the City. Scarlett, unable to get the overburdened local doctor to come help with the birth and learning that her personal slave, Prissy, has lied about her own knowledge, reluctantly stays by Melanie's side. Her rough and insincere encouragement somehow help Melanie through. Scarlett inexpertly but effectively delivers her son. The labor, birth and lack of either sanitary or knowledgeable care take a terrible toll on the new mother but in the face of enemy invasion immediate evacuation is essential.

Panic-stricken, Scarlett immediately--not for the first time or the last--turns to Rhett for help. With Rhett's guidance and thieving skills she acquires what is probably the last horse in Atlanta, a diseased old thing, as well as a rickety wagon. Thus begins a nightmarish trek back to Tara for Scarlett, Melanie, the newborn, Scarlett's toddler son, and Prissy. Harassed by troops on either side, hungry and prey to the weather, insects and rough roads, the wretched group painfully traverse the twenty five miles to Tara. Alas, Tara has fallen into the marauding hands of the Yankees. All the valuables, all gold, harvested crops and livestock are gone. In the face of hardship, the spoiled Scarlett shoulders the troubles of her family and friends, but the near starvation and backbreaking, endless work change her forever. She grows hard and calculating. An attack from an enemy deserter forces her hand and she shoots him in self-defense. Sick as she is, Melanie assists Scarlett in hiding the body and cleaning up. Although on the surface Melanie is as sweet and loving as ever, hard times have wrought changes upon her character, too.

As the remainder of the former Southern army troop home, some familiar faces return. A former overseer and his new wife, poor white Emmy Slattery (whose name is synonymous with her loose-moraled character) come "calling" with an eye to purchase Tara for themselves, Scarlett learns that her home will soon be put up for auction due to tax debts. Now hardened, she is willing to do whatever she has to, including selling her body to Rhett, to raise the tax money. Her plan is a dismal failure as Rhett sees through it right away and eventually the not-so-grieving widow marries her sister's beau, Frank Kennedy, for the funds to pay the taxes. Her hardened, practical nature has driven her to steal her own sister's beau. It doesn't end there. As one of the most colorful characters in literature, Scarlett challenges the prescribed women's roles of her time. She pays a steep price in the form of ostracism by her Atlanta acquaintances. The story's driving force continues to be Scarlett's ongoing internal conflict between her feelings and the expected behavior for a woman of her age and class.

Searching for Scarlett Edit The 1939 film version of Gone With the Wind Scarlett O'Hara is strongly similar to the character in the original novel in looks, character and behavior but there are some noticeable plot differences. In the book, Scarlett gives birth to three children: Wade Hampton Hamilton, Ella Lorena Kennedy, and Eugenie Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler. In the film version only Bonnie is featured. Almost universally, the studio and the public agreed that the part of Rhett Butler should go to Clark Gable. The exception being Clark Gable himself. Casting for the role of Scarlett was a little harder. The search for an actress to play Scarlett in the film version of the novel famously drew the biggest names in the history of cinema, such as Bette Davis (whose casting as a Southern belle in 1937's Jezebel took her out of contention), and Katharine Hepburn, who went so far as demanding an appointment with producer David O. Selznick and saying, "I am Scarlett O'Hara!

The role is practically written for me." David replied rather bluntly, "I can't imagine Rhett Butler chasing you for ten years." Jean Arthur and Lucille Ball were also considered, as well as relatively unknown actress Doris Davenport. Susan Hayward was "discovered" when she tested for the part, and the career of Lana Turner developed quickly after her screen test. Joan Bennett was widely considered to be the most likely choice until she was supplanted by Paulette Goddard. The young English actress Vivien Leigh, virtually unknown in America, saw that several English actors, including Ronald Colman and Leslie Howard, were in consideration for the male leads in Gone with the Wind. Her agent happened to be the London representative of the Myron Selznick talent agency, headed by David Selznick's brother, a co-owner of Selznick International Pictures. Leigh asked her agent to put her name into consideration as Scarlett on the eve of the American release of her picture Fire Over England in February 1938. David Selznick watched both Fire Over England and her most recent picture, A Yank at Oxford, that month, and from that time onward, Leigh had the inside track for the role of Scarlett.

Selznick began highly confidential negotiations with Alexander Korda, to whom Leigh was under contract, for her services later that year. Leigh was informed of Selznick's interest, and told that she would not need to screen test for the role at present as he would view her movies. For publicity purposes, David Selznick arranged to first meet Leigh on the night in December 1938 when the burning of the Atlanta Depot was being filmed on the Forty Acres back lot that Selznick International and RKO shared. The story was invented for the press that Leigh and Laurence Olivier were just visiting as guests of Myron Selznick, who was also Olivier's agent, and that Leigh was in Hollywood hoping for a part in Olivier's current movie, Wuthering Heights. In a letter to Selznick's wife two days later, he admitted that Leigh was "the Scarlett dark horse," and after a series of screen tests, her casting was announced on January 13, 1939. Just before the shooting of the film, Selznick informed Ed Sullivan: "Scarlett O'Hara's parents were French and Irish. Identically, Miss Leigh's parents are French and Irish.

In any case, Leigh was cast—despite public protest that the role was too "American" for an English actress—and Leigh eventually won an Academy Award for her performance. Some similarities between Scarlett and Vivien Leigh, the actress who played her are striking: Both were ambitious, both wanted little to do with motherhood. both swore they would never again have a child. Scarlett and Leigh came from similar Irish/French backgrounds. Both were hailed as great beauties--although author Margaret Mitchell made sure to state that Scarlett was no beauty in the traditional sense. Neither lasted well in long-term, traditional relationships and found friedships equally hard to sustain. However, Viven Leigh suffered from complex mental illnesses that are difficult to picture plaguing the indomitable Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler. Adaptations In the 1994 TV mini-series based on the sequel Scarlett, the character was played by English actress Joanne Whalley. In the Margaret Martin musical Friday, the role of Scarlett O'Hara was originated by Jill Paice..

Cammie King, Daughter in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 76 - The New York Times The New York Times Arts |Cammie King, Scarlett and Rhett’s Girl, Dies at 76 Search Continue reading the main story Cammie King , who as a cherubic little girl played the daughter of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind,” then enjoyed something of a fan following at film festivals, died on Wednesday at her home in Fort Bragg, Calif. She was 76. The cause was cancer, her son, Matt Conlon, said. Mrs. King Conlon, as she had been known since her marriage to Michael Conlon in 1971, was 4 when cast as Bonnie Blue Butler . Bonnie was the child of the manipulative Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) and the roguish Rhett (Clark Gable), who had a turbulent love affair in Atlanta during the Civil War. Appearing in just a few scenes, Bonnie died when she fell off her pony.

Her only other acting credit was as the voice of Faline, a young doe, in the 1942 Disney animated film “Bambi.” “I peaked in show business at age 5,” she frequently said. Photo Cammie King and Clark Gable in a scene from the 1939 film “Gone With the Wind.” Credit MGM, via Photofest Still, with the enduring popularity of “Gone With the Wind,” Mrs. King Conlon found a degree of celebrity at film festivals and celebrations for the movie. In 1989 she was one of 10 surviving cast members who went to Atlanta for a weeklong 50th-anniversary celebration of the premiere. In a panel discussion, Mrs. King Conlon said a 35-year-old man whom she called “a little person” had been her double in the scene in which she fell from her pony. She received $1,000 for her work in the film, she said. Eleanore Cammack King was born in Los Angeles on Aug. 5, 1934. Besides her son, Matt, she is survived by a daughter, Katie Byrne, and three grandchildren.

Her first husband, Ned Pollack, died in 1965. Her marriage to Mr. Conlon ended in divorce in 1976. Mrs. King Conlon, who graduated from the University of Southern California, worked for the Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce and started its film commission. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Last year, after publishing “Bonnie Blue Butler: A Gone With the Wind Memoir” at her own expense, she was interviewed by The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, Calif. Asked about her role in the film’s popularity, she said: “I had nothing to do with it. I was 5. They said, ‘Stand here. Do this.’ ” A version of this article appears in print on September 3, 2010, on Page B9 of the New York edition with the headline: Cammie King, 76, Scarlett and Rhett’s Girl. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

Question: Who starred as Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind"?
Answer: Clark Gable