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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1939
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Genres
Romance Period drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“The real auteur was the producer, David O. Selznick, the Steven Spielberg of his day, who understood that the key to mass appeal was the linking of melodrama with state-of-the-art production values.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1998
Such was David O. Selznick’s determination to pull off this epic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling 1936 historical romance, he put to work handfuls of directors (Victor Fleming taking sole credit) and writers – not to mention all seven Technicolor cameras then available in the USA, to shoot the burning of Atlanta.
The romantic entanglements of Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), first with the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and then with the caddish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), are charted against the backdrop of the American Civil War and its aftermath. Though its racial politics have undoubtedly dated, the film included among its ten Academy Awards the first Oscar for a black actor – though Hattie McDaniel, the woman in question, was famously barred from the film’s Atlanta premiere.
Vivien Leigh won two Oscars playing Southern ladies, the first for Scarlett O’Hara and then for Blanche DuBois in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) opposite Marlon Brando.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Gerald O'Hara
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Ellen O'Hara, his wife
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Scarlett O'Hara
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Suellen O'Hara
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Carreen O'Hara
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Brent Tarleton
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Stuart Tarleton
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Mammy
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Pork
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Prissy
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Jonas Wilkerson, the overseer
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Big Sam
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John Wilkes
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India Wilkes
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Ashley Wilkes
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Melanie Hamilton
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Charles Hamilton
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Frank Kennedy
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Rhett Butler
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Aunt 'Pittypat' Hamilton
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Uncle Peter
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Doctor Meade
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Mrs Meade
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Mrs Merriwether
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Belle Watling
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a Yankee deserter
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Emmy Slattery
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Connie Blue Butler
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amputee
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Johnny Gallegher
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Tom, a Yankee captain
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Phil Meade
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reminiscing soldier
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Bonnie's nurse
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a renegade
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Cathleen Calvert
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a hungry soldier
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Beau Wilkes
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a Yankee businessman
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the corporal
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the Yankee major
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a mounted officer
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Maybelle Merriwether
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[Elijah]
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[guest at Tara]
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[gentleman at Twelve Oaks]
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[gentleman at Twelve Oaks]
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[gossip at Twelve Oaks]
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[gentleman at Twelve Oaks]
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[bearded Confederate on steps at Tara]
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[René Picard]
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[Fanny Elsing]
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[old Levi]
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[boy outside the Examiner office]
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[a sergeant at hospital]
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[wounded soldier at hospital]
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[a convalescing soldier at hospital]
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[a dying solider]
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[wounded card player at hospital]
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[a commanding officer at evacuation]
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[soldier aiding Doctor Meade]
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[exhausted boy at evacuation]
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[bartender at siege]
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[the carpetbagger's friend]
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[a returning veteran]
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[minister]
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[poker-playing captain]
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[poker-playing captain]
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[carpetbagger orator]
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[renegade's companion]
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[a Yankee on street]
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[Tom's aide]
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[Baby Beau Wilkes]
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[Rafe Calvert]
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[housemaid, evening prayers]
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[housemaid, evening prayers]
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[Bonnie Blue Butler, aged 2]
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[Beau Wilkes at Scarlett's marriage]
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[bandleader's wife]
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[housemaid, Twelve Oaks]
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[bandleader]
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[Yankee soldier in shantytown]
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[one-armed soldier]
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[hospital nurse]
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[housemaid, evening prayers]
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[general's wife]
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[newborn Bonnie Blue Butler]
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[Yankee soldier in shantytown]
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[cancan girl]
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[housemaid, Twelve Oaks]
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[hospital nurse]
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[Beau Wilkes, 11 months]
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[Yankee soldier in shantytown]
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[drummer boy]
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[Yankee soldier in shanytown]
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[Cade Calvert]
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[housemaid, evening prayers]
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[cancan girl]
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[cancan girl]
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[housemaid, Twelve Oaks]
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[Bonnie Blue Butler, 6 months]
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[Frank Kennedy's clerk]
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[housemaid, Twelve Oaks]
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[.]
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[.]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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[Co-director]
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[Co-director]
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[Co-director]
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[Co-director]
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[2nd Unit Director]
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[Director - Chico Unit]
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[Director - Southern Backgrounds]
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Assistant Director
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[2nd Assistant Director]
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[Production Continuity]
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[Production Continuity]
Production:
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©/A Selznick International Picture
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[Presented] in association with
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Released by
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Produced by
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[Unit Manager]
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Production Manager
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[Location Manager]
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[Research]
Casting:
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[Casting Manager]
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[Casting Manager]
Writing:
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Screen Play by
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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Scenario Assistant
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Above the Title Credit [for Novel]
Photography:
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Photographed by
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[Photographed by]
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Technicolor Associate
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Technicolor Associate
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Technicolor Co. Supervision
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Special Photographic Effects
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[Associate Photographic Effects - Fire]
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[Camera Operator]
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[Camera Operator]
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[Chief Electrician]
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[Electrical Supervisor]
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[Key Grip]
Stills:
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[Stills]
Editing:
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Supervising Film Editor
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Associate Film Editor
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Montage Director]
Design:
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This Production Designed by
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Art Direction by
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Interiors by
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[Set Designer, replaced]
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Interior Decoration by
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[Set Decorator]
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[Scenic Department Supervisor]
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[Tara Landscaped by]
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[Drapes]
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[Special Props Made by]
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[Props Man]
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[Set Props]
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[Greens]
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[Mechanical Engineer]
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[Construction Supervisor]
Costumes:
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Costumes Designed by
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[In Charge of Wardrobe]
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[Wardrobe Associate]
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[Wardrobe Associate]
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[Vivien Leigh's Hats]
Make-up:
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[Make-up/Hairstyling]
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[Make-up/Hairstyling Associate]
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[Make-up/Hairstyling Associate]
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[Vivien Leigh's Hairstyles]
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[Wigs]
Film processing:
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[Associate Colour Supervisor]
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[Technicolor Tests]
Music:
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Musical Score by
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Additional Stock Music]
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[Additional Stock Music]
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Assistant Musical Director
Choreography:
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[Dance Director]
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[Dance Director]
Sound:
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[Sound] Recorder
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[Sound]
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Sound System
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[Sound Effects]
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[Sound Effects]
Stunts:
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[Stunt Double - Clark Gable]
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[Stunt Double - Paul Hurst]
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[Stunt Double - Vivien Leigh]
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[Stunt Double - Vivien Leigh]
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[Stunt Double - Cammie King]
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[Riding Double - Thomas Mitchell]
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[Riding Double - Vivien Leigh]
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[Stand-in, Vivien Leigh]
Consultant:
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Technical Advisor
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Technical Advisor
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Historian
Publicity:
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[Publicity]
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[Publicity, Atlanta/New York Premieres]
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[Assistant to Howard Dietz]
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[Trailer Supervisor]
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