JB's Journal - Gone With The Wind Museum
Margaret Mitchell's book Gone With the Wind recently celebrated its 75th anniversary of being published. The book and the movie still remain popular today. This week on J.B.'s Journal, we'll take you to Jefferson, Texas and inside Scarlett O'Hardy's.
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An interesting piece of trivia...Gone With the Wind won best picture from the Academy Awards in 1939 over another popular movie, the Wizard of Oz released that same year. Also Judy Garland was originally signed to play one of Scarlett's sisters but was recast when she received the role of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
Auction of Gone With The Wind memorabilia
APTN New York, USA. 22 JULY 2002
1. EXT Christie's Auction House
2. EXT MS Gone With the Wind poster
3. WS Gallery
4. MS pan film posters
5. CU original movie script
6. CU pan across script page
7. MS push original 1939 film poster
8. CU original 1939 film poster Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
9. CU original 1939 film poster Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
10. SOT Herb Bridges (English): I do wonder why 'Gone With the Wind' is so popular not only in America, but worldwide. But you go back to a good story, the book is so popular, published all over the world and then you see the film and all over the world has seen the film. And it's just a good story. It's a good love story. You've got the love triangle, you've got war, you've got death, Bonnie Blue Butler falling off the horse and so forth. You've got Scarlett shooting somebody, so you've almost got murder, so you've got to little touch of everything in it and it just seems to relate to people all over the world.
11. MS First Editions of Gone With the Wind
12. CU book with Margaret Mitchell photo
13. CU Margaret Mitchell autograph
14. WS pan dolls
15. MS tilt up dolls
16. SOT Margaret Barrett (English): One of our highlights is a sweater worn by Olivia De Havilland who portrayed Melanie and she wears in two key scenes and you can clearly see it in the film and that's a fun piece and that's in good shape and we also have a petticoat worn by Vivien Leigh in a scene where Mamie's measuring her waist after she's had a baby and she wants her waist to be seventeen inches again and Mamie keeps telling her that's not going to happen.
17. CU photo of Scarlett and Mamie
18. MS petticoat
19. MS pull Melanie's sweater
20. MS Rhett Butler poster and costume vest
22. CU push vest inside label Mr. Clark Gable
23. MS pan original film synchronizer and 35mm film trailers
21. CU plaque presented to 'Gone With the Wind' producer David Selznick from Eastman Motion Picture Film
22. MS tilt up On the Set film poster with cast/crew signatures
23. SOT Herb Bridges (English): It's quite an experience to sort of part with your collection. I'm sure anyone who collects stamps or coins or whatever would part with them, it would be sort of a traumatic experience and so forth, but I think it was time to sort of let it go.
24. CU pull out scrap books
25. CU photo Vivien Leigh
26. WS pan Gallery
MOVIE MEMORABILIA SET TO GO LIKE WIND
The most comprehensive collection ever of Gone With the Wind memorabilia will be auctioned off at Christie's in New York City on Wednesday, 24 July.
The 348 lots being offered were assembled over a period of more than forty years by Herb Bridges, a world-renowned collector, lecturer, author and expert on the subject of 'Gone With the Wind'.
Mr. Bridges, a Georgia native, first read the Margaret Mitchell novel of the Old South at the age of eleven but it was not until the early 1960s that he became fascinated with all things having to do with the 1939 Oscar-winning four-hour film.
The rocky relationship between Scarlett O'Hara (played by Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (played by Clark Gable) is one the golden screen's most enduring love stories. Leigh won an Oscar for best actress, Gable was nominated for best actor.
The film won five additional Academy Awards, five Academy Award nominations, and numerous other awards.
As recently as 1989, the then fifty-year-old movie won the People's Choice Award for The Favorite All-Time Motion Picture.
The Herb Bridges Collection of memorabilia focuses on the overall phenomenon of both the book and film.
There are also books, photographs, costumes, dolls, and numerous movie posters, foreign and domestic, including several from the original 1939 American campaign.
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