Author / Hayashi Ono
Eighty-two years later, who else in the film is alive?
The female author of the novel earns four times that of Vivien Leigh, how much copyright fee does she take?
Which star in the film pays the most?
Is Ashley's character Howard really a spy?
Which scene in the film was directed by Hitchcock?
Did Brad finally return to Scarlett? Listen to what the author of the novel says!
The most profitable movie in human history is neither Titanic nor Avatar, but Gone with the Wind. That year's box office revenue of $400 million, taking into account inflation, is equivalent to today's 6 billion!
The novel "Gone with the Wind" was enthusiastically sought after as soon as it came out on June 30, 1936, and this hot big IP was adapted into a movie of the same name and officially released on January 17, 1940, and then set off a frenzy, and all aspects of cultural consciousness derived from it penetrated into the social life of the American people, almost everywhere. For example, in American slang, "menstruation" is "Scarlett returned to the manor" – "Scarlett is back at the manor".
In contrast, many film practitioners today "operate like a tiger, and then watch the box office cry into a dog", it seems more necessary for us to revisit the good films and learn from the meticulous professionalism of the creators of "Gone with the Wind", especially the producer David Lee. How O. Selznick flattened the pie with a heroic operation, thus creating a cross-era box office myth!
Well, today Ono continues to interpret the classics for you, detailing the behind-the-scenes footage of Gone with the Wind in every way, including the cast, the core of the story, and the secret anecdotes, saying something you don't know.
I. Eighty-two years later, who else in the film is alive?
First from left: Olivia de Havilland
On July 26, 2020, 104-year-old Melanie played Olivia de Havilland died in Paris, France, and everyone thought that the crew had been wiped out. After all, it is too old, almost a century.
This is not the case, and there is still an actor alive.
Everyone thinks, according to common sense, it should be this little actor, right?
Barred's daughter Bonnie is played by Camille Kimkenren Conlon, who was only 5 years old when she starred in the film.
Cammie King Conlon August 5, 1934 – September 1, 2010
This young actor is the founder of the famous century-old Store Technicolor Group, Herbert M. T. Carmouth's stepdaughter, that is, she was brought by her mother, Eleanor King, when she crossed the door. In an unsympathetic sense, Herbert made the first color film in the United States, Between the Bays (1917), which is not strict because the film is two-color, the same effect as the tricolor rainbow organic film on the fluorescent screen of our black-and-white television in the eighties.
The first true color film in the United States was Vanity Fair, made in 1935.
This young actor has a good life, after filming "Gone with the Wind", he gave a sound to an animated film "Bambi" and quit the film world, retiring at the age of 8. First, because she was too tall, 8 years old to 1 meter 55, could not find a suitable role (1 meter 78 after adulthood); second, because the family was not short of money, after growing up, she married the son of anime giant Nagisa Kang Long, and was at ease when she went to Kuota.
If there's anything to do with the film and television industry, it's that she's close friend of Judy, clark Gable's illegitimate daughter, The Real Bradder's daughter.
Clark Gable has an illegitimate daughter named Judy Lewis, which the big guys may not know, and he himself didn't find out that he had such a daughter after 15 years.
Judy Lewis November 6, 1935 – November 25, 2011
The poor little girl had always thought she had been adopted by her mother from an orphanage.
When she was 15 years old, she first saw her dad, who was sitting in the living room, like many of her acting peers. Clark Gable spoke gently with her for a few words, and she never saw him again. She didn't know Clark Gable was her biological father until Judy was 25 years old, on November 16, 1960, when her father died. But she was not eligible to attend the funeral because she could not produce the relevant certificate.
Judy and her birth mother – actress Loretta Young
Camille Kimkenren and Judy Lewis, a pair of little girlfriends who walked on their feet and walked behind their feet, died of lung cancer on September 1, 2010, and a year later, judy died of lymphoma on November 25, 2011.
The big guys may ask, so who else is alive in "Gone with the Wind"?
Don't you say, there really is such a thing!
Melanie and Ashley's son, Boric, is played by Mickey Kuhn.
Mickey Kuhn was born on September 21, 1932
This kid is 89 years old and still alive!
Micky Kuhn was a famous American child star in the 1930s and 1940s, and he was only 7 years old when he starred in "Gone with the Wind".
Eleven years later, he starred with Vivien Leigh in "The StreetCar of Desire", the little sailor who leads the way at the beginning of 2 minutes and 22 seconds.
When he first entered the group, he was pulled by Aunt Leigh Vivien Li to her own dressing room to reminisce about the past, and was rumored by some ill-intentioned people, resulting in damage to his image and even infamous, and finally had to completely quit the show business circle and get married and have children.
At the age of 33, Mickey Kuhn was hired by American Airlines as a flight attendant supervisor and later became an administrative manager at Boston Airport, retiring in 1995 and now celebrating his old age in Boston.
Micky Kuhn once told the media: "Vivien Leigh is the gentlest and cutest lady I have ever met. ”
II. How much royalties did Margaret, the author of the novel, really take?
The cover of the first edition of "Gone with the Wind" goes like this
The novel "Gone with the Wind" became a bestseller as soon as it was published, and soon became a book out of stock, and the original price of 3 US dollars a book was finally speculated to 60 US dollars a book!
At that time, a good hotel rented only $30 a month.
Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered one thing, I once had a friend in the show business circle who was finalized to play Lu Xun, and one day he rushed to send me his makeup photo - Mr. Lu Xun stood in front of the window in a long shirt, holding a pipe in his hand, and the whole figure was gilded with a layer of gold edge by the sunset, and he stood as a landscape. On the table next to it, there is a copy of "Gone with the Wind".
I said to this brother, brother, there is a prop error, the novel "Gone with the Wind" only entered Shanghai in the early forties, when Mr. Lu Xun had passed away, and the cover was not right, you quickly delete this piece of your circle of friends.
So this friend silently blacked me out.
Hmmm, let's go on to our Great Margaret Writer.
Margaret Mitchell November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949
Margaret's Hao Sijia is basically the same age as Cixi.
On November 1, 1861, six and a half months after the Civil War began in that hemisphere, Cixi, a 26-year-old girl, launched the famous Xin You coup d'état, and collected the eight ministers one by one.
At that time, men all over the world did not realize that they had lost their power, with the rise of the first industrial revolution, large-scale mechanization became more and more popular, and the historical status of men, who only relied on physical output and was known for physical labor, gradually gave way to the mental who was known for his brain output.
Of course, we didn't mix with the first Industrial Revolution, and when Watt invented the steam engine and Jenny tinkered with the textile machine, we were busy with the Nine Kings. However, the rise in the social status of women around the world has become an unstoppable historical trend.
Like the door sign that Margaret's second husband, John Marsh, hung in front of his mansion—"Here live two lovers who are equal in personality." ”
"Gone with the Wind" This kind of domineering president fell in love with my external strong female IP just stepped on this idea, which is called the emergence of the times.
Margaret herself did not expect such a big movement later, at first she was just a lonely little girl who loved to listen to her grandfather's stories, and finally she was lonely enough to write a manuscript silently, and she was self-cute. Three times and two times to introduce acquaintances to the publishing house.
Publishers are more devastated when they see the manuscript.
Those yellowed paper bugs bite the rat bite aside, the chapters are all in a disorderly order, and the most damning thing is that they are stacked together just as tall as the female author (Margaret is 1 meter 5 tall).
It can only be said that in the end, fu Zi went out of the street, and this publisher was greedy enough.
A month after the novel's publication, Gone with the Wind producer David M. O. Selznick was quick to pay Margaret an unprecedented $50,000 in film royalties!
What is this concept? In 1937, Clark Gable's annual salary was $650 a week, and even if he didn't eat or sleep all day and worked every week, he would end up at $33,800 a year.
This is not the end, after the release of "Gone with the Wind" was a great success, David began to mutter, oh my movie is so profitable, Margaret is not less there? So he gave her $50,000.
"Gone with the Wind", "Butterfly Dream", "Dr. Edward" producer - David O. Selznick David O. Selznick
You will ask, didn't you say that Margaret's salary was four times higher than Vivien Leigh's? Co-author Vivien Leigh earns $25,000?
Not exactly, "Gone with the Wind" Leigh Leigh film paid $22,500, melanie was $25,000.
The big guys don't be upset, who let Vivien Leigh love acting so much, and before she can decide on the final candidate for Hao Sijia, she has already memorized all the lines to the rotten.
But then Vivien Leigh's "Soul Break Blue Bridge" she got $100,000!
Oscar queen, double the value is not covered.
Vivien Leigh's private collection of Gone with the Wind sells for £7,000 at Auction at Sotheby's
III..Which actor in the film pays the most?
The highest paid actor here is Clark Gable, for a total of $120,000! Therefore, the smile of the people in the film is more stretched.
This allowed him to finally scrape together 500,000 to fire his second wife.
In fact, this was not the peak of Gable's income, the real high salary era was after he enlisted in the army in August 1942.
According to a 2005 declassified account by a corner tower, When Clark Gable enlisted that year, he was rated as a "film expert" and was paid $7,500 a week. Not only that, but another filmmaker and cinematographer who fought in the war at the time, Andrew M. Andrew J. McIntyre was deliberately trained as a machine gunner, becoming Gable's personal bodyguard, responsible for posing for him.
Of course, Gable does not want this, he joined the army purely for the sake of a strong man's anger and red face! When I went, I didn't plan to come back alive.
It's all about a woman – Carol Lombard.
Gable and his wife, Carole Lombard,
Gone with the Wind was filmed from December 10, 1938 to November 11, 1939, during which time Gable took a green book and another red book.
On March 29, 1939, Gable officially married the beautiful carol Lombard.
Gable's newly fired wife Mary is a well-known Franklin family in Texas, a real celebrity, you can roughly understand why, Gable was born in 1901, this Mary was born in 1884.
I don't blame my Hollywood peers for teasing Gable Taogujing, whose first two wives were 17 years older than him. It is also probably related to the death of his mother when he was seven months old.
But this Mary was so infatuated that she did not change her surname until her death—Mary Franklin Gable.
The life of the new daughter-in-law is not much better.
On January 16, 1942, Carol Lombard, who was selling war bonds, was killed in a plane crash, becoming the first World War II attrition on the American mainland.
In August of the same year, Gable joined the army in anger and flew over the land of Europa. At that time, Hitler set up a combat group for him and ordered "only live mouths".
Gable was very dismissive of this: "I knew Hitler wanted to capture me alive and put me in a cage like a gorilla and travel around Europe, but that would never be possible!" ”
Many years later, according to people familiar with the matter, the reason why Lombard rushed home to see her husband was because he heard that his husband was rumored with Lana Tona.
If Izumi knows, my husband will laugh at Jiuquan for fighting for his life, right?
IV. There is also a woman who is obsessed with Gable
Black Mommy – Hattie McDaniel
This black mother is very interesting, when she took over the role of "Gone with the Wind", some African Americans had a lot of opinions about her and asked her why she acted in such a Yankee movie? Have you forgotten the days when you were discriminated against?
Heidi immediately retorted, "Where am I discriminated against?" I'm here for $700 a week instead of $7, which is like you guys, lol! (In fact, her weekly salary is $1,000.)
However, after her death in 1952, she was excluded from the Hollywood Immortal Cemetery, and it was not until 47 years later, in 1999, that the Immortal Cemetery held a memorial event for her in the center.
She was already buried in rose valley cemetery in Los Angeles, and even so, it was a privilege, after all, she was the first black person to be buried there.
Heidi created many firsts, such as the first African-American female singer to sing on the radio in 1915, the first African-American guest to appear at the Oscars instead of the end plate, the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award, the first rich Hollywood woman to leave her husband a $1 inheritance... etc. and so on.
However, at the premiere of Gone with the Wind on December 15, 1939 in Atlanta, Heidi was not invited to attend as a black man. This is rather strange, because at the premiere there was Martin Luther King Jr.'s father, the elder Martin Luther King Jr., reverend, and also a ribbon-cut figure.
Clark Gable was indignant because he and Heidi were good friends, and he refused to attend the premiere, and it was finally producer David who intervened to mediate, and he reluctantly showed a small face.
During filming, the two formed a deep friendship. In the scene waiting for Scarlett to have a baby, the black mommy and Brad raise a glass of congratulations, and the tea in the cup is secretly mixed with brandy by Gable, and Heidi has no idea, cup after cup. After the scene, Heidi finds herself walking with a flutter.
V. There was another guy who didn't attend the premiere, the Deep Sea Comrades of Hollywood
Intermezzo: A Love Story (Intermezzo: A Love Story)
These are two of ingrid Bergman's first appearance in Chinese magazines, and in the early 1980s the film was called "Intermezzo: A Love Story" (Intermezzo: A Love Story).
Everyone was looking at Bergman by then, ignoring Leslie Howard beside her.
Careful friends will find that the film was made twice, the Swedish version in 1936 and the American version in 1939, both starring Bergman. Like Gone with the Wind, it is produced by Selznick International Pictures.
The film is the result of producer Selznick's deal with Howard.
Howard had refused to play Ashley, first, he was 46 years old and did not want to pretend to be a young man in his twenties; second, he did not want to repeat himself, he was tired of interpreting this "sad waste". Until the end of the film, he had not even seen the original "Gone with the Wind".
"Cold Night Piano Pick" is also one of the Selznick God Operation series, killing two birds with one stone, which not only made Howard gladly agree to participate in "Gone with the Wind", but also successfully recruited Ingrid Bergman from Sweden and filmed "Dr. Edward" in 1945.
Howard did not show up at the premiere of "Gone with the Wind", he was very busy, because three months ago, on September 3, Britain and France officially declared war on Germany, and as a MI6 agent, Howard returned to china to serve.
It was not until 2007, when a dying deceased person confided the truth, that Howard's true identity surfaced and was known to the world.
In 2007, the 95-year-old Hispanic Hollywood actress Conchita Montenegro felt that she was running out of time and specifically asked the writer José Ray Smena to break the news. In 1931, she had a relationship with Leslie Howard on Not a Bad Guy, but she later married a senior Spanish official, and it was under her needle that Leslie Howard was able to meet Franco and present a handwritten letter from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1931 film Never the Twain Shall Meet
It was this letter that made Franco completely abandon the idea of following Hitler to join the Axis powers, so that Spain did not get involved in the war.
Two and a half years after the release of Gone with the Wind, Leslie Howard died in an air crash.
During that time, he traveled intensively between Portugal and Spain to teach acting classes, and on June 1, 1943, he and his agent returned to England on KLM Flight BOAC777 and flew over the Gulf of Biscay in Spain and were shot down by German warplanes, leaving no one alive.
For the next three days, Hitler was overjoyed, as he received information that Churchill was on the plane. Three days later, however, Churchill jumped out alive and spoke everywhere, much to Hitler's dismay.
Leslie Howard was the first deceased member of the "Gone with the Wind" crew at the age of fifty.
And Alicia, who plays his sister in the film, lived a hundred years!
VI. The actor is only a part-time job, and the painter is the one who does it
Ashley's sister, Inti, Alicia Rhett
Attentive viewers may find that the actress has only acted in one such film in her life.
In fact, she is not an actress, but the painter of this film. Some of the oil paintings and poster manuscripts we see in Gone with the Wind are from the hand of this 24-year-old girl.
And I think this little girl's expressiveness is not only reflected in the paintbrush, her acting talent is also excellent. In the film, Ashley's sister Inti always acts as a defender, jumping down and down the line of moral widow killing for many years, but the eyes are flowing with unknowing jealousy.
All this was accurately grasped by this little girl.
Alicia was indeed appreciated by producer David for her acting skills, and when the crew did not have a lot of investment, she was even named Melanie's candidate.
Probably the painting industry is more nurturing, this girl lived for a hundred years! He didn't die until January 2014, becoming the runner-up on the entire crew life list!
VII. This is Hitchcock's first play released in the United States
Will everyone feel that this scene looks familiar?
As the film unfolds, the grand narrative becomes an escape room, as if Hitchcock were possessed.
This scene is just five minutes long, medium shot, close-up, close-up, large close-up, overhead shot, back shot, flat shot, push and pull shake heel... Like the details of an essay, the photographer is tired alive, and the delicacy seems to be that of an English girl operating behind her back, even the gay director of this film, George Cook, has not become such a woman.
If I draw a book like this, I will be criticized by the teacher for "not being a director!" ”
Yes, the scene was drawn by an Englishman named Hitchcock.
He had only arrived in the United States at the time and was working on another film by producer David, Butterfly Dream.
Hitchcock was temporarily dispatched to help, show off.
"Butterfly Dream" came out two months later than "Gone with the Wind", so Melanie's night reading of this scene is actually Hitchcock's first release in the United States.
Ⅷ.“ Scarlett Hao's audition "Is it really a conspiracy?"
David S. O. Selznick David O. Selznick
In 1999, David M. O. Selznick's own little gold man was auctioned off by Michael Jackson for $1.5 million.
David was a man who was really good, never counted partners, should give more money to give more money, more pompous, and was a real emerging capitalist rather than a feudal landlord. Except for a little flaw in private morality.
He is most widely criticized for snatching people's wives with horizontal knives and pitting people's husbands.
The big guys like Hitchcock's "Train Freak" male number two Robert Walker, whose acting skills are highly appreciated, is a rare acting genius. But you can't see it, the actor in the film ran out of the mental hospital, from 1948 to 1950, when "Train Freak" began filming, repeatedly escaped and was repeatedly arrested.
Because my wife ran away with someone, I was deeply stimulated.
His wife, Jennifer Jones, was the same as David Jones. O. Selznick ran.
Right: Bruno played by Robert Walker
1951 film The Train Freak (aka Stranger on the Train)
David's idea is relatively simple, he still knows the truth of value reciprocity, although I take your wife, but I have resources, can be exchanged, I introduce you to the business to make you money, Robert Walker starred in "Train Freak" Bruno is David's arrangement.
However, he did not understand the fragile and sensitive heart of the artist, and just two months after the release of "Train Freak", Robert Walker drank himself to death.
David with his wife Jennifer Jones
Speaking of this evil relationship, it is still related to "Gone with the Wind", and jennifer Jones came to participate in the "Scarlett Audition" earlier.
Many of their film and television counterparts have been envious and jealous, muttering behind their backs that David O. Selznick was an empty glove white wolf, because with his family background at the time, he could not come up with $3.97 million to smash "Gone with the Wind".
His famous father-in-law did not look up to him at all and would not follow him. David S. O. Selznick's father-in-law at this time was Louis Meyer, the president of the Emperor MGM of Hollywood. This gentleman is notoriously greedy and lustful, and often chases actresses around the table. How much money is there to cut the door? Someone once asked Meyer, "Why do you make so much money?" After death, you can't take it away. Meyer replied, "If I don't take it away, I won't die." ”
David's father-in-law, "Ben Hurrah" producer Louis B. Meyer Louis B. Mayer
David S. O. Selznick didn't like to dump him yet, and pulled the team to practice alone.
However, wood has a lion's head, wood has a 3D, how much is such a label worth?
The label of the opening of "Gone with the Wind", produced by Selznick International Pictures, has also been seen in "Butterfly Dream"
At that time, Hollywood spread a paragraph, saying that David bought the novel copyright for 50,000 yuan at that time, signed Vivien Leigh more than 20,000 points in early 1938, and then created a momentum, the global audition saw thousands of girls, and did not hesitate to kick out Catherine Hepburn, Betty Davis and other Hollywood A-list stars, and Sheng Sheng fried "Gone with the Wind" into a hot gold project The remaining 3.9 million investments were all circled after.
A vivid case of financing on how to fish with a straight hook.
In any case, the circle of money is coming, and it is an investment in two movies.
In fact, anyone who carefully studies the details behind the scenes, you will find that this is a rather pragmatic producer, such as the memo he sent to the crew members, a telegram up to 30 feet long; and then, all the actresses have petticoats in their costumes, although the camera can never shoot there; in the scene of the wounded soldier, there are obviously eight hundred dummies on the ground, David still insists on hiring another eight hundred living people to lie there, in exchange for you are a producer, are you willing to pay for this money?
There is nothing wrong with the virtual reality, the real reality, the virtual reality!
IX: Did Bradd finally return to Scarlett Hao?
At the end of the film, when Scarlett tearfully chases out, "If you leave, where can I go?" What can I do? ”
Brad turned his head.
She thought he was going to spit out a sentence — "I'll be back!" ”
But the goose, the truth is like this -
"To be honest, honey, I don't care!"
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”
"Gone with the Wind" has completely become a generation of cool articles here!
In 2005, the AFI American Film Academy also held a audition to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the film, about the top 100 movies and 100 classic lines. The above sentence ranks first.
Terminator Governor's "I'll Be Back" came in third.
It can be seen from this that human beings are such a vengeful species.
When Margaret, the author of the original novel, was alive, the most frequently asked question was "Did Brad finally come back?" She has been silently answering, the most common statement is that "there will be no sequel to "Gone with the Wind", nor can she have a bastard meal, and she also seriously wrote this matter into her will, and her family descendants did indeed take it as a guideline for practical performance.
Two years after her death, her husband, John Marsh, revealed a small loss to the world that the real prototype of Brad was said to have married a less troublesome woman.
Therefore, this world may be men's, or women's, but in the end it belongs to the old and young masters!
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