C or D: David O. Selznick's 1939 production of "Gone with the Wind"

OMG! I was wondering why I didn't hear "Tiptoe through the Tulips" in, well, the "Tiptoe through the Tulips" section. Still, amaaaaazing box set if only for the Vitaphone shorts. Spat into the wind here:

If you dig American vaudeville, get thee to the 3-DVD Deluxe Edition of THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)!

Morbs, you're sweet. I'll start posting on ILF.

I watched this recently on AMC. I haven't watched it since college, where it was campy entertainment for us.

Scarlett O'Hara's curtain couture wasn't THAT different or less ridiculous from Carol Burnett's send-up. I never noticed before how ridiculous Scarlett is. The South is portrayed as some exotic place.

Worth watching for the sets. Surely since this was after the depression, the excess would have invited scorn? Hard to know.

My mother was a teenager when this came out and she thought Clark Gable was a dreamboat. When GWTW was rereleased to theaters in the mid-60s she took all of her four children to the Music Box theater downtown (something unprecedented) so we could soak in the glory, just as she had when young. She talked it up a lot before we went.

As a 10 year old (approx.) I thought the first half was fairly snappy but the second half after the intermission was pretty damned boring. Clark's big line of "frankly, my dear..." just wasn't worth all the tedium that swathed it. I expect the movie was true to the book, but I never bothered to read the book.

Scorn from whom? Surely the masses enjoyed their escape into lavish mansions being burned and looted.

I saw some of it on AMC too, like when Scarlett shoots the rape-intent Yank in the face. I suppose there was a 75th anniv screening in Atlanta, as the premiere was in early December.

de Havilland interview in Garden & Gun:

http://gardenandgun.com/article/interview-olivia-de-havilland

I remember seeing this as a little girl and could not figure out Clark Gable's appeal. I remember talking about it with my mom - "women liked THAT?? That slick hair and stuff?" Burt Reynolds was the hottie in those days - that I understood.