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Was director George Cukor fired from ‘Gone With The Wind’ to keep Clark Gable’s gay past a secret?
One of the great directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, George Cukor gave us innumerable classics—from Gaslight to A Star Is ...
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Flannery O’Connor Wanted to Shake Her Readers Awake. Her Family Wanted Her to Write the Next ‘Gone With the Wind’
This year marks the writer's 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O'Connor ...
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Margaret Mitchell: The "Gone with the Wind" Author Turned Black Med. Student Activist
Margaret Mitchell’s life after “Gone with the Wind” was predominantly private and somewhat overshadowed by the book’s immense success. She spent much of her time managing the literary ...
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'Damn' was once the most offensive word in the 1900s – here’s why
and I noticed that whenever a character in the book said the word "Damn" it was written as "D---" because in 1900 damn was an unprintable word. " "Even in the 50s when "Gone with the Wind" came ...
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Court explains improprieties of ‘Wind Done Gone’ ban
However, the publisher has a viable fair-use defense because the book copies elements from Gone With the Wind to criticize the original. “It is hard to imagine how Randall could have specifically ...