European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine Clark Gable Ana Vivien Leigh starred in the screen version of Margaret Mitchell s civil War epic. Gone with the celebrates 50th birthday by Carol Woodford associated press Hett Butler did l give a Damn and perhaps his creator would t either but Atlanta thinks i he 50th anniversary of Margaret Mitchell s gone with the wind is something Worth celebrating \ non profit organization coordinated plans for a 10 Day Celebration thai includes a Scarlet o Hara Rhett Butler look alike contest a Tara Ball for dancing in period costumes showings of the 1939 movie and exhibitions of gone with the wind i Memorabilia including foreign language notions and character dolls. Beyond Atlanta the postal service has issued a stamp honouring Mitchell and the publisher. Macmillan co. Of new Yolk has published a reproduction of the hefty first edition. Mitchell who died in 1949, loved privacy and might have been unhappy Wilh All the hoopla. However Herb Bridges a retired postman trom Sharpsburg who Heads the non profit gone with the wind 50th anniversary Celebration inc. Bet Teves she deserves it i knew something had to be done in the City and t did t know anyone else who would do in right said Bridges who claims to own the world s largest collection of gone Wilh the wind Memorabilia. I m not saying it s the greatest Book Ever written or the beat film Ever made he said. I m just interested in the phenomenon How the thing has been going on for 50 years people buying the Book going to see the movie now buying the videotape. I m still not sure if i understand Cone with the wind the epic of a spoiled Southern Belle set against the backdrop of the civil War and reconstruction is indeed a phenomenon Selling morn than 25 million copies in 27 languages the film made in 1939. Has grossed s76-7 at the to. Soltice making it 21 is on the All time list it had been no 1 until the sound of music edged ahead in 1955, Mitchell a former reporter for the Atlanta journal sunday Magazine started the Book during a three year confinement because of a broken ankle and arthritis she recalled in a letter that her husband. John r. Marsh brought Home a Pound or so of copy paper and said write a Book " the labor took 10 years and even then Mitchell was reluctant to show a publisher the manuscript she had tentatively tilled tomorrow is another Day taken from Scarlett s last Lino. Gone with the wind the epic of a spoiled Southern Belle set against the backdrop of the civil War and reconstruction is indeed a phenomenon Selling More than 25 million copies in 27 languages. Saturday june 28, 1986 of tit n u aug Sverai requests Nir to Macmillan Howard Latham when to a Jim to Ailini i n i0 i i to Inok Lor ire a writing tin Brink , drawn Arnm the civil War stones r he Hart Lionel nmn child from who Harj lived i Roufeh Ihu prot Virl construction she chore the name Scarlett 0 Ham Sho said per Fly Shn could Lind no record of an on by that in Ceylon county where the work was Sel i a wry anxious not to use the name r f any family not j.i1 / living in the county during a cd Stie Wolcin 1 l,16 f of gone with the wind on Jun 1936 Lurner Viu to
