80th anniversary of Gone With the Wind

[El Supremo]

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I saw it the first time in a theater for its 20th then again for its 35th. Has it really been 80 years??? I just watched it for the gobzillionth time on TCM. I don't remember when it first was shown on TV. It said Ted Turner bought MGM mainly to have this film.

It is one hell of a four hour long movie. But at the core its just a soap opera.

[Glorfindel]

1. 80 years, and "Melanie" is still alive!

Dame Olivia deHavilland, age 103. What a remarkable lady.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland

Thanks for the reminder, El Supremo.

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. One of my favorite lines..Oh, fiddle-dee-dee..there is always tomorrow...

Hubby recorded for later..

[Voltaire2]

3. At the core it is a racist pile of shit.

It’s a glitzed up romance version of birth of a nation.

[Botany]

5. +1

I treated my slaves well. Antebellum bullshit.

[Grasswire2]

4. I noticed on the marquee of local shopping center theater a showing of Meet Me In St. Louis.

....not four hours, but still a very old movie. Playing at 7 p.m. one night a week. Would be fun to see some of these on the big screen.

[JDC]

6. One of my favorite films.

[rsdsharp]

7. Also the 80th for

Wizard of Oz
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Ninotchka
Stagecoach
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dark Victory
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men

and a last best picture nominee I've never heard of, let alone seen -- Love Affair.
And there are even more classics which weren't nominated

Gunga Din
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Young Mr. Lincoln

There never was a better year for movies than 1939.