Gone With the Wind Movie Premiere

Collection:

Atlanta History Photograph Collection

Date:

1939-12-15

URL at Partner site:

http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/638

DLG URL:

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/geh_athpc_638

Subject:

Motion picture premieres--Georgia--Atlanta, Entertainment--Georgia--Atlanta, Theaters--Georgia--Atlanta, Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta, Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta, Automobiles--1930-1940, Lighting, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Spatial coverage:

United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 and United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Peachtree Street, 33.804803, -84.393633

Medium:

photographs

Description:

View of the crowd, decorations, and search lights outside the Loew's Grand Theater on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, the night of the movie premiere of Gone With the Wind. Gone with the Wind was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Author Margaret Mitchell in 1936. The novel concerns a young woman's life in the midst of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1939 the book was made into a film, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The film premiered in Atlanta, Georgia at Loew's Grand Theater.

Holding Institution:

Atlanta History Center

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/