This Day In History: The movie Gone With The Wind was released on this day in 1939. It has a running time of 221 minutes (about 4 hours), and adjusted for inflation, it the most successful film of all time ($3.44 billion). The movie's famous line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" almost didn't make it in, as "damn" was considered a cuss word at the time. "Gone With the Wind" broke a lot of taboos: the portrayal of a prostitute, Amputation, Battlefield violence, and Painful childbirth. In fact, they couldn't find enough extras to portray the dead and wounded Confederate soldiers toward the end of the war so they ordered 1000 dummies.
Amazingly, one of the actors in the movie, Olivia de Havilland (now DAME Olivia de Havilland) is still alive at 103 years old. She was born in Japan to British parents and is presently a citizen of three different countries: United Kingdom, United States and France.
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