An Early ‘Gone With the Wind’ Script Shows a Much Harsher, More Accurate Depiction of Slavery
It ’s not an overstatement to say that the process of bringingMargaret Mitchell ’s 1936 novelto thesilver screenwas one of the most tortuous inHollywood history . By the timeGone With the Windfinally premiered in December 1939 , it had cycled through three directors , more than a twelve screenwriters — F. Scott Fitzgeraldamong them — and too many 11th - minute script revision to count . Some of those revise are probably lost to history , as producer David O....