And the Horse You Rode in On

On Friday, June 9, 1939, Victor Fleming directed Vivien Leigh, Victor Jory and Isabel Jewell in the scene in which Scarlett confronts Tara’s former overseer, Jonas Wilkerson, and his wife, Emmy Slattery. They have come to “pay a call – a friendly call – and talk a...

Gone With the Wind’s 75th Anniversary: Second Jinxed Scene

On January 28, 1939, George Cukor directed the sequence of Ellen O’Hara’s return to Tara. This turned out to be Gone With the Wind’s second jinxed scene. In the scene, Barbara O’Neil as Mrs. O’Hara informs Robert Gleckler, who was playing...