Gone With the Wind

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noun

1. a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.

Gone With the Wind

1. (1936) A phenomenally popular novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell. Set in Georgia in the period of the Civil War , it tells of the three marriages of the central character , Scarlett O'Hara , and of the devastation caused by the war.

Notes

The film version of Gone With the Wind , which premiered in 1939, is one of the most successful films ever made.

Idioms and Phrases

Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind . This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone .

Example Sentences

One is the wedge-shaped Culver Hotel — where the actors who played the Munchkins stayed during the filming of “The Wizard of Oz,” and the Washington Boulevard entrance to Culver Studios, which can be seen in the opening titles of “Gone With the Wind.”

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It was on for two weeks, off for three, on for three, off for eight, on for five, off for four, on for two, and then — with the episode “Chokin’ and Tokin’,” in which Bill’s peanut allergy puts him in a coma and Lindsay gets paranoid trying pot — it was gone with the wind.

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Clark Gable, left, and Vivien Leigh in “Gone with the Wind.”

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“Gone with the Wind” lasted nearly four hours, as would such later temporal blockbusters as “Lawrence of Arabia” and “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” with an intermission.

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A chance encounter in New York with movie producer Joyce Selznick, the niece of legendary “Gone With the Wind” producer David O. Selznick, led to his role in “Gidget” and the younger Selznick managing him.

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