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Gone With the Wind, released in 1939,is considered the most profitable film of all time. The Guinness World Records estimates its global adjusted gross box office at $3.75 billion in 2022.
Based on the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell, the three-hour and forty-two-minute epic is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
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It tells the story of the headstrong Scarlett O’Hara, daughter of a plantation owner, and her romance with a war profiteer named Rhett Butler.
The film was a passion project of producer David O. Selznick, of Selznick International Pictures.
He bought the rights from Mitchell for $50,000 in 1936, a month after the book was published. It took 15 scriptwriters to wrestle the novel into a screenplay. Three directors worked on the film.
The casting of Clark Gable held up production for two years.
Gable was under contract to MGM, which was run by Selznick’s father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer, with whom he had a strained relationship. Eventuall