Making "Gone With The Wind" Pt. 1/5 ("Our World," ABC, 1987)

"Our World," an excellent ABC News history series that ran for one season (1986-87), chronicles the making of the 1939 movie classic "Gone With The Wind" (2/19/87).
Features interviews with stars Olivia de Havilland, Butterfly McQueen, Evelyn Keyes, Fred Crane, Mary Anderson, and production staffers Marcella Rabwin, Kay Brown, Lydia Schiller, Lyle Wheeler, Ray Klune.
This segment begins with an overview of the grim world situation in 1939, during the build-up to World War 2, which caused Americans to seek escape and entertainment in the Hollywood movies of the time.
"Gone With The Wind" (novel)
Written by Margaret Mitchell
"Gone With The Wind" (film)
Produced by David O. Selznick
Directed by Victor Fleming
"Our World" (ABC-TV series)
Episode Producer: Anthony Potter
Senior Producers: Edward Hersh, Peter Kunhardt, Ellen Rossen
Director: Consuelo Gonzalez
Hosts: Linda Ellerbee & Ray Gandolf
Written by Linda Ellerbee, Ray Gandolf, Ann Derry

[@amiehampton867]

And now its been 90 years since the movie came.Its still one of the best classic movies ever.I saw many times on TV.

[@evesapple6445]

Amie Hampton 80 years...

[@somepig2k]

this was such a dynamite show. No bullsh*t, or bad pop star insights, just excellent journalism.

[@imacceptingbut]

I hope they tie in all of this WWII history stuff into parts 2-5....otherwise I'm really not sure why we're getting this huge history lesson when most of us came here to watch the making of Gone With The Wind!

[@strawberryshortcake8382]

Vivian was so pretty 💞🌷💄

[@fromthesidelines]

The public DEMANDED Gable as "Rhett Butler" (even though Margaret Mitchell originally envisioned Basil Rathbone as "Rhett"!)...and David O. Selznick paid a heavy price to "borrow him" from his father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer; MGM owned the film by 1944.

[@cripplehawk]

I have 3 films that were made in 1939 "Gone With the Wind" "Wizards of OZ" and "Gunga Din"

[@RETROGEMS]

I learned when watching "That's Entertainment! Part II" (I believe), that 1939 was a REMARKABLE year for movies...so many legendary films came out of that year like GWTW, of course, "The Wizard of Oz", "Wuthering Heights", "Gunga Din", etc. I don't know what it was about that year but when it came to cinema, it was a truly epic point in time!

[@ThomasFromTN]

It you like complete utter fantastical Euro-centric TRASH...you're absolutely correct. If you appreciate that next to nothing about those stories, there themes, real true to history...you're absolutely correct.

[@Willmuzik]

Thanks so much for posting, I watched this when I was a kid and it was cool seeing it again!

[@TheGable101]

Thanks for sharing this program. I have an old vhs copy from original showing. It is priceless for recording interviews with Marcella Rabwin and others now long gone.

[@LeslieGMN]

@TheGable101 How I loved Marcella Rabwin! I wish I could have met her... or BEEN her, with such an interesting life.

[@tinklvsme]

FF to @8:35 for the documentary about Gone With the Wind.

[@mschierb1]

I so want this to be on DVD so I can buy the entire series. My favorite show!

[@trinapatterson2274]

Ive wanted to see this again for SO. LONG!!! Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!

[@ihgoldstein6274]

Thank you for putting up some of this wonderful series I loved it but like so many new this show couldn't last.

[@OceanKingNY]

@Willmuzik You're welcome. I'm glad that so many people are enjoying it!

[@kellyshrewsbury]

Thank you so much for posting this! I loved the book AND the movie :D

[@corvus13]

1939 may have been the best year ever for the quality of movies that came out in one year.

[@Amatrice-xc6ek]

Yo también agree 🙋💋

[@cmann517]

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[@ThomasFromTN]

GWTW was complete hocus pocus bullshit. Anyone who has any real knowledge of the story of the rise and fall of the Confederacy recognizes GWTW as being nothing but wistful, revisionist tripe, surpassed in that denotation only by "Birth of a Nation." [i.e. at least GWTW did not somehow overtly cast the Ku Klux Klan as the protagonist hero of its storyline...not exactly.]

[@billolsen4360]

@@ThomasFromTN Indeed

[@nukapuka]

@@ThomasFromTN Bla bla bla.

[@MikeHottVOD]

My father-in-law worked on the construction of the yellow brick road

[@keno8spot]

our world was such a good show so abc pulled it after only 1 season

[@DionnaNalls]

I watched just because of Linda Ellerbee! Loved her back in the day!

[@johndalton3180]

The show Our World would focus on a time period each week. They would sometimes focus on one story, but always they would the other things that happened, giving historical context. So, this is mostly about GWTW, with other stories sprinkled throughout.

[@gregroach1312]

I have studied World War II extensively. I thought this post was about the film Gone With The Wind, which was made irrespective to the war. The film preparation substantially preceded September of 1939. The correlation of the two is entirely coincidental!

[@2degucitas]

Studying it and living through it are two different things. According to my parents they did coincide. Making such an expensive film during war when everyone had rationing was seen as wasteful. But the country needed this film to inspire and escape.

[@Serenephile]

thanks for posting this! :)

[@josephineroe8424]

Well, I know about "your country" and I say you're wrong. My great grandparents were German Jews who were betrayed by their longtime neighbors. I lived in Germany as a child and visited later. The German citizens that I know did not and do not accept much responsibility. I've heard a lot of "we didn't know it was happening" or "the government didn't tell us" or "It's in the past, don't talk about that," & whatever America's alleged "war crimes" were, they can't even compare to the holocaust.

[@ronssexybikerbae]

Thank you for posting

[@HCShannon]

Clark, I think it's hard to be a "spectator" when your in like EVERY scene!

[@hypnoticpoisons]

how would that feel watching the movie for the first time with the actors themselves

[@TheMetro666]

lol went from talking about a movie to war....wtf

[@MsMilagrita]

I'm almost through the first part and still no GWTW in sight.

[@dingbat]

Same here. There are plenty of great WWII documentaries out there -- not really needed in a Making of Gone With the Wind.

[@jourdymoretti9081]

Pat Deem Umm Gone with the Wind wasn't about WW 2 it was about the Civil War

[@dingbat]

Jourdy Moretti My point exactly.

[@angelcitygirl]

Exactly. Lots of WWII and not much else. Off to Part 2.

[@ohgeeze5953]

Damn, so many Germans are still so overly defensive & oversensitive about what their parents/grandparents' generation did. It was disgusting. Period. Trying to shift the blame onto others, including the Americans, won't make what they did any less disgusting. Just own it already and stop making excuses!

[@nukapuka]

U don't know what u r talking about. Is always USA that causes all wars. Germany was strong, Christian and no dark people and had to be destroyed. + Jews had to be sacrificed to establish Israel.

[@carolineok11]

I totally agree

[@szqsk8]

I don't remember this show 'Our World' but I can see why. It sucks. I thought this was about GWTW but most of it was about WWII.

[@stafonvoncamron]

what does WW11 have to do with GWTW and the Civil War?

[@PhillipJames100]

Love Ellerbee

[@eddiecampion2410]

Anyone got the 1988 making of gone with the wind

[@onurkilic5290]

This movie is now аvailable to watch heeereee => twitter.com/7aef42b2f50531def/status/795842770065727488 MMMaking Goone With The Wind Pt 1 5 Our World ABC 1987

[@charlietheanteater3918]

They used some of the music from the 1933 King Kong for this documentary

[@OceanKingNY]

You're welcome. :)

[@elchoya100]

frankly my dear i dont give a DAMN!,but i love linda ellerbee.

[@HCShannon]

@johnnyafairbanksak Pretty dumb that they'd schedule a show like this opposite the hottest sitcome on TV, such is life!

[@stephy7475]

WOW

[@debbieking5171]

Is Kay Brown still living?

[@shellyhill6804]

What a weird, smirky pair of hosts it had

[@AlexxJ.]

That is nice how they begin - very american: the war war breaking in Europe, but in America they didn't care, they were looking forward for the beautiful film. Just "we keep out". But "you pay cash".

[@Marcoplo]

the English, eh? Wow. that song. I bet Hitler whistled his own version during THE Blitz

[@dmack7778]

hey

[@superhetoric]

that's tyrone power all right but that's not norma! haha

[@Handiman544]

that was not Norma Shearer..

[@DAVEJJR]

Right??? It was Anita Louise, Shirley's co-star in "The Little Princess"....

[@steveweinstein3222]

WWII started when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1933.

[@BunWackettBuzzard]

No, the US wanted to help but could not find a good enough excuse to have the US public on side, pearl harbor gave the US that excuse. Now, can you read a history book? because you can find some amazing facts in there. My comment was over two years ago, in that time my mind has changed and I have become less unreasonable because I have educated myself to other cultures by using the internet to learn. I like Germany now and the German people.

[@clintdavis3781]

There is a movement to ban this film by 2025. I guess it really is gone with the wind now.

[@midgetgirl5]

I think think this movie should be ban by Hollywood......forever being remade!!!

[@heartfire451]

One more reason we need another civil war.

[@thelittlemrs]

Clint Davis Good luck on that! wonder how many DVD copies that's been sold? have 4 myself

[@moniquebrown7778]

Time has not been kind to any of these people🤢🤮😣😖🤣

[@LeslieGMN]

@Monique Brown Time rarely is kind.

[@MrBuddydance]

Bad documentary, because there is too much emphasis on WWII.

[@steveweinstein3222]

I don't think we realize how profoundly the war invaded the consciousness of people in 1939. Everyone knew we'd end up in it - not "if," "when."

[@sallyperdue3185]

Steve Weinstein Yes, and I usually enjoy nods to the times, but don't you think they laid it on a little thick in this documentary?

[@steveweinstein3222]

A valid point. They wanted to lay it into context of the time.

[@cmann517]

Is she a linebacker? Why does she have shoulder pads?

[@gmh952]

One can certainly understand why "Our World" only lasted on season, beginning with its unappealing, uncharismatic, boring hosts to this very uneven piece with 3-4 minutes of totally unrelated footage of the Nazi invasion of Poland which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the making of Gone with the Wind. The time could've been put to much better use with more history about GWTW.

[@marjoriegarner5369]

yes

[@odessabrown790]

N

[@WCaron23001]

This is lousy and off point.

[@ohgeeze5953]

You know absolutely nothing about what I know. You wrote: "And the US only helped because of Pearl Harbour. They didn't care when the Nazis killed millions - yes, they DID know about this." LOL That's your idea of "accepting responsibility and admitting guilt"? Further, the fact that you now lash out by making the asinine claim that: "America has NEVER owned ANY of its manifold war crimes over the decades" ...only proves my point. You felt the need to try to shift guilt yet again! Sad.

[@nukapuka]

USA is evil.

[@razaalee9477]

They really wanted to pass the time and didn't have enough material on GWTW so they added this useless piece about the war I'm sure most of us didn't want to watch.

[@ryanbarker5217]

four minutes into this mess and i'm done. ellerbee was cheesy even in her day. and, what the hell do i care about WWII in this context?