Gone with the Wind [DVD] [1939]

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Her eyes are aimed squarely at Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), if only because his attention has been directed elsewhere.

For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. For those seeking out something to read, though, a 20 page reproduction of an original playbill offers brief biographies and even reasonably lengthy retrospectives by both Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.It includes footage from some of the 90 screen-tests for the part of Scarlett O’Hara, with Margaret Sullivan, Paulette Goddard, Lana Turner and of course Vivien Leigh. The two Blu-ray discs and the double-sided DVD arrive in an impressively thick foldout book, and its height is closer to a DVD case than a traditional Blu-ray set. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. This segment's primary focus is on the two forces that propelled MGM to become the largest, most successful, and most admired studio in Hollywood: wunderkind head of production Irving Thalberg and studio chief Louis B. A frequent talking point in the extras throughout this set is that Leslie Howard was considered much too old to play the twentysomething Ashley Wilkes, but between the convincing makeup work and his strong performance, that thought had never entered my mind until now.

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell.

As I had recently re-watched GWTW on my other DVD and then watched most of it again on Tur ner Classic Movies last week, I haven't watched it again with the commentary. A number of his comments about Mitchell, such as her secretive writing process and her dissatisfaction with the text the introduces the film, aren't addressed anywhere else in the extras on this disc.