Take a good look, my dear: 'Gone with the Wind' film memorabilia to be auctioned away online

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November 1st, 2024

Actor Clark Gable and actress Vivien Leigh are shown on the set of "Gone With the Wind" with producer David O. Selznick, just before filming a scene in Los Angeles, Ca. on March 7, 1939. (AP Photo)

A highly anticipated online auction is blowing onto the Bonhams website next week, featuring memorabilia from the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind.”

Based on the hit novel by Atlanta author Margaret Mitchell, the MGM film tells the story of Scarlett O’ Hara (Vivien Leigh), the beautiful and pampered daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, who must pick up the pieces of her life and her family’s property during the Civil War and ensuing Reconstruction period.

While filmed primarily in Los Angeles, the film’s premiere was at the Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta on Dec. 15, 1939, now the site of the Georgia Pacific Tower.

In this Dec. 15, 1939, file photo, searchlights frame the “Tara” facade of the Loew’s Grand Theater on Peachtree St. for the movie premiere of “Gone With the Wind in Atlanta. 75 years after the premiere of the movie, Gone with the Wind, research is shedding light on the racial tensions that existed at the time between the producer and City of Atlanta officials. Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the premiere. (AP Photo/File)

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