On this day in movie history - Gone with the Wind (1939)

 

Gone with the Wind

directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood,

written by Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling and John Van Druten,

based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell,

was released in the United States on December 15, 1939.

Music by Max Steiner.

 
Gone with the Wind was the first movie screened on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) when the channel was launched on April 14, 1994.
 
Cast:

Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves, Fred Crane, Hattie McDaniel, Oscar Polk, Butterfly McQueen, Ward Bond, Victor Jory, Everett Brown, Howard Hickman, Alicia Rhett, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Rand Brooks, Carroll Nye, Laura Hope Crews, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Harry Davenport, Leona Roberts, Jane Darwell, Ona Munson, Paul Hurst, Isabel Jewell, Cammie King Conlon, Eric Linden, J.M. Kerrigan, Jackie Moran, Cliff Edwards, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Yakima Canutt, Marcella Martin, Louis Jean Heydt, Mickey Kuhn, Olin Howland, Irving Bacon, Robert Elliott, William Bakewell, Mary Anderson, John Albright, Eric Alden, John Arledge, Roscoe Ates, Trevor Bardette, Dorothy Barrett, Janet Barrett, Lennie Bluett, John Breen, Ralph Brooks, Morgan Brown, Daisy Bufford, Ann Bupp, James Bush, Ruth Byers, Gary Carlson, Horace B. Carpenter, Louise Carter, Shirley Chambers, Eddy Chandler, Silver Chief, Wallis Clark, Richard Clucas, Frank Coghlan Jr., Billy Cook, Jim Corey, Gino Corrado, Martina Cortina, Luke Cosgrave, Kernan Cripps, Patrick Curtis, Russell Custer, Yola d'Avril, Ned Davenport, Marvin Davis, Dolores Dean, Dawn Dodd, Lester Dorr, Phyllis Douglas, Joan Drake, F. Driver, Edythe Elliott, Susan Falligant, Richard Farnsworth, Frank Faylen, Geraldine Fissette, Charline Flanders, Bess Flowers, Greg Giese, Kelly Griffin, George Hackathorne, Chuck Hamilton, Evelyn Harding, Lucille Harding, Inez Hatchett, Jean Heker, Ricky Holt, Shep Houghton, George Huggins, Peaches Jackson, Claire James, Jerry James, Si Jenks, Harvey Karels, Tommy Kelly, Emmett King, W. Kirby, Al Kunde, Paula Lane, Carl M. Leviness, Timothy J. Lonergan, John Long, Robert Locke Lorraine, Barbara Lynn, Margaret Mann, Caren Marsh, William McClain, Leona McDowell, Dock McGill, Peggy McIntyre, George Meeker, Charles Middleton, Lola Milliorn, Hans Moebus, Alberto Morin, Adrian Morris, Lee Murray, H. Nellman, David Newell, Jeanette Noeson, Artie Ortego, Dorothy Ann Pailliot, Naomi Pharr, Lee Phelps, Spencer Quinn, Jolane Reynolds, Marjorie Reynolds, Suzanne Ridgway, Louisa Robert, Azarene Rogers, Scott Seaton, Tom Seidel, Terry Shero, William Stack, William Stelling, Harry Strang, Dirk Wayne Summers, Stephanie Toler, Emerson Treacy, Phillip Trent, Julia Ann Tuck, Tom Tyler, Dale Van Sickel, E. Alyn Warren, Blue Washington, Rita Waterhouse, John Joseph Waterman Jr., Dan White, Sarah Whitley, Ernest Whitman, Guy Wilkerson, Zack Williams, Phyllis Woodward, John Wray.

Born on this day – Vivien Leigh:

Vivien Leigh

Actress

November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967

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