"The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind" edited by John Wiley Jr., published by Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham, MD, 2014. First Edition.

Dust jacket with original price of $34.95 on the front flap; black hard boards, parchment color spine, gold lettering on spine, 473 pages including Index + two blocks with photographs, near fine condition.

"As Gone With the Wind marks its seventy-fifth anniversary on the silver screen, these letters, edited by Mitchell historian John Wiley, Jr., offer a fresh look at the most popular motion picture of all time through the eyes of the woman who gave birth to Scarlett. -One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars. However, driven by a maternal interest in her literary firstborn and compelled by her Southern manners to answer every fan letter she received, Mitchell was unable to stay aloof for long."

"In this collection of her letters about the 1939 motion picture classic, readers have a front-row seat as the author watches the Dream Factory at work, learning the ins and outs of filmmaking and discovering the peculiarities of a movie-crazed public. Her ability to weave a story, so evident in Gone With the Wind, makes for delightful reading in her correspondence with a who's who of Hollywood, from producer David O. Selznick, director George Cukor, and screenwriter Sidney Howard, to cast members Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel. Mitchell also wrote to thousands of others...But through it all, she retained her sense of humor."

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