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Die-hard Gone With the Wind fans are called “Windies.”
238
minutes
The runtime of Gone With the Wind.
The record-breaking number of Academy Awards Gone With the Wind won. Besides Best Picture, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel), Best Director (Victor Fleming) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Sidney Howard), the film also won for cinematography, art direction and film editing. This record stood for 20 years until Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars in 1959.
THE SEQUELS
The Margaret Mitchell estate authorized Alexandra Ripley to write Gone With the Wind’s sequel. Scarlett, published in 1991, was a bestseller, but was panned by critics and readers.
The Margaret Mitchell estate also authorized Donald McCaig’s Rhett Butler’s People, published in 2007. The novel parallels Gone With the Wind, but from Rhett’s perspective.
422,517
The number of words in the novel Gone With the Wind.
32
The number of languages the novel has been translated into.
202,044,600
The number of tickets sold for Gone With the Wind, the most for any movie. Rounding out the top five movies with the highest ticket sales are: Star Wars (178,119,600), The Sound of Music (142,415,400), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (141,854,300) and Titanic (135,474,500).
Several companies produced Gone With the Wind jewelry for men and women, including brooches, pins, necklaces, rings and watch chains. Ricarde of Hollywood offered several lines of costume jewelry, while other manufacturers made Scarlett wristwatches and book-shaped lockets and brooches.
800
The number of extras used for the epic scene where Scarlett searches for Dr. Meade among a sea of injured and dead Confederate soldiers. Because union rules required a certain number of extras be used, 800 dummies were mixed in with 800 real people.
30 MILLION
The number of copies of Gone With the Wind that have been sold. The book has never been out of print since its initial publication in 1936.
one scene
The movie’s four main characters are only in one scene together — after the Shantytown raid when Scarlett learns her second husband, Frank Kennedy, has been killed.
2 MILLION
The number of copies Gone With the Wind sold during the first year after it was published.
2.5 pounds
How much the 1,037-page novel weighed. Because of its length, the novel sold for $3 a copy, 50 cents higher than most hard-bound books of the day.
eight
The number of times the film has been re-released in theaters in the U.S.
$400
million
The amount the film made. When adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind has made $3 billion to $5 billion, making it the highest grossing film of all time.
Gone With the Wind was featured on the covers of numerous magazines, including Photoplay, Ladies’ Home Journal, Family Circle, Glamour and Look. Vivien Leigh in Scarlett’s famous drapery dress made the cover of Time on Christmas Day 1939.
