Gone With the Wind (1939) Vivien Leigh Scarlett O'Hara Clark Gable Rhett Butler Leslie Howard (II) Ashley Wilkes Olivia de Havilland Melanie Hamilton Hattie McDaniel (II) Mammy George Reeves Brent Tarleton Fred Crane (II) Stuart Tarleton Everett Brown Big Sam Thomas Mitchell Gerald O'Hara Barbara O'Neil Ellen O'Hara Victor Jory Jonas Wilkerson Evelyn Keyes Suellen O'Hara Ann Rutherford Careen O'Hara Butterfly McQueen Prissy Alicia Rhett India Wilkes Rand Brooks Charles Hamilton Carroll Nye Frank Kennedy Marcella Martin Cathleen Calvert Laura Hope Crews (II) Aunt "Pittypat" Hamilton Harry Davenport Doctor Meade Leona Roberts Mrs Meade Jane Darwell Mrs Merriwether Albert Morin Rene Picard Mary Anderson (III) Maybelle Merriwether Terry Sheron Fanny Elsing William McClain Old Levi Eddie Anderson Uncle Peter Cliff Edwards (II) Reminiscent Soldier Ona Munson Belle Watling Directed by: Victor Fleming Produced by: David O. Selznick Scarlett O'Hara is in love with drippy Ashley Wilkes, and is devastated when he announces that he plans to marry his cousin Melanie. She pleads with Ashley to marry her instead, but then, on the first day of the Civil War, she meets mercurial Rhett Butler. A man to match her strength of character and romantic desires, Butler changes the course of her life. Despite hunger, and the burning of Atlanta, Scarlett survives the war and its aftermath, but ultimately loses the only man she really loved. ========== Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. ========== This classic film narrates the love between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler during the American civil war. It's the history of a selfish woman who doesn't want to admit her feelings about the man she loves, and finally loses him. ========== The epic tale of a woman's life during one of the most tumultuous periods in America's history. From her young, innocent days on a feudalistic plantation to the war-torn streets of Atlanta; from her first love whom she has always desired to three husbands; from the utmost luxury to absolute starvation and poverty; from her innocence to her understanding and comprehension of life.