Gone with the Wind (1939)

"The greatest romance of all time!"

Directed by Victor Fleming
Produced by David O. Selznick
Screenplay by Sidney Howard
Based on "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland
Music by Max Steiner
Cinematography: Ernest Haller
Edited by Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom
Production companies: Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by Loew's, Inc.
Release date: 17 December 1939 (United States)
Running time: 221 minutes (234–238 minutes - with overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music)
Country: United States
Budget: $3.85 million
Box office: $390 million

"Gone with the Wind" is a romance drama war film directed by Victor Fleming and adapted from Margaret Mitchell's novel. The film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, from her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, to her marriage to Rhett Butler. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, the story is told from the perspective of rich white Southerners.

Midnight (1939)

Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Story by Edwin Justus Mayer, Franz Schulz
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie
Music by Frederick Hollander
Cinematography: Charles Lang
Edited by Doane Harrison
Production company: Paramount Pictures
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date: 24 March 1939 (United States)
Running time: 94 minutes
Country: United States

"Midnight" is a romantic comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It tells the story of a showgirl stranded in Paris who is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

April 7 1939