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Vivien Leigh, who portrayed Scarlett O'Hara, refused to make the vomiting sounds needed for the hungry scene at the end of Part 1, so Olivia de Havilland made them for her.

The Burning of Atlanta scene was filmed as old movie sets were being burned to clear the back lot of the studio for the building fo Tara. One of the sets was from a King Kong movie.

David Selznick bought the rights to "Gone With The Wind" on July 30, 1936 for $50,000, which was the highest ever paid for a first novel.

There were 1400 people interviewed for Scarlett, 90 of them were screen tested. Over 13,000 feet of film was used during the tests.

Viven Leigh worked for 125 days and received about $25,000. Clark Gable worked for 71 days and received over $120,000.

Gable was so distressed over the requirement that he cry on film that he almost quit. Olivia de Havilland convinced him to stay on the film.

The premiere was held in Atlanta, Georgia. It was supposedly the first time that David O. Selznick had been in the South.

Hattie McDaniel was not allowed to visit the films premier in Georgia due to the states racial laws. She later became the first African-American to be nominated for, and to win, an Academy Award.

Gone with the Wind is longest running of all movies to win the Best Picture Academy Award.

Shooting began with Robert Gleckler playing Jonas Wilkerson. After a month of filming, Gleckler died. His scenes were re-shot with replacement cast member Victor Jory.

For the scene in which Scarlett escapes the fires of Atlanta, a horse was needed to play Woebegone, an old nag on the verge of collapse. A suitable candidate was finally found, but weeks later, when the horse was brought to the set, it had gained weight and its ribs were no longer visible. There was no time to find a replacement, so the makeup department painted dark shadows on its ribs to give the appearance of malnourishment.

In the scene where Scarlett searches for Dr. Meade, making her way among 1,600 suffering and dying Confederate soldiers, to cut costs - and still comply with a union rule that dictated the use of a certain percentage of extras in the cast - 800 dummies were scattered among 800 extras.

In the scene where Rhett pours Mammy a drink after the birth of Bonnie, they were drinking water. After many reshoots Hattie McDaniel complained that she was getting sick of it, so for the next take Clark Gable switched the water with some real booze, which she did not realize until she had chugged it down. The next day on his way to the set Gable called out to Hattie "Hey Mammy, how's the hangover?"

Out of the four leads, three of them (Howard, Leigh, and Gable) died young. Olivia de Havilland is the only one that's still alive. Ironically, her character was the only one that died in the film.