“In a weak moment, I have written a book…”
Margaret Mitchell in a letter to Atlanta historian Wilbur Kurtz
That face says it all!
Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, and Lawrence Olivier at a press party at Atlanta’s Georgian Terrace Hotel during the premiere of Gone With the Wind in 1939.
He’ll be comin’ to Atlanta…
Scarlett Logic
And the winner is…
Desk used by Margaret Mitchell while writing Gone With the Wind.
Atlanta History Center Collection
Photo of Margaret Mitchell seated at her desk.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
“AISLE 4” sign from Atlanta’s Loew’s Grand Theater. This sign was in place when the film Gone With the Wind premiered there in 1939.
As a young girl, Margaret Mitchell wrote stories like “The Little Pioneers” and sometimes adapted them into plays which she and her friends performed on the front porch of her house. Little did she know that she would one day write one of the most famous love stories of all time, Gone With the Wind.
From the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center
January 13, 1939
Vivien Leigh signed on to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind.
1937 newspaper advertisement for Gone With the Wind. Margaret Mitchell wrote most of GWTW while living in the Crescent Apartments in Atlanta. Today, her apartment has been restored and is open to the public.
Gone With the Wind told through emoticons.
Tomorrow is another day…
View of Atlanta’s Loew’s Grand Theater during the world premiere of Gone With the Wind on December 15, 1939. This image was created by stitching together multiple video stills from this archival footage.
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