![]() Yet, she claimed, ‘I never dared imagine that it would last for sixty years and still be going on strong, that wish and hope and dream of mine was confirmed. The actress ‘sensed that Gone With the Wind would live much longer than any other film made to date’. They have assembled on the great veranda for a mint julep, and they are raising their glasses to you’. ![]() Selznick (1902-1965), and ‘the whole cast that has gone before us to the great plantation in the sky. Her voice, deep and honeyed, named her fabled co-stars Clark Gable (1901-1960) and Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), her producer, David O. ‘We are not alone tonight,’ she told them at the end of the intermission, when she took the microphone for a few moments. However, on the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta, on 15 December, 1939, de Havilland was shaking hands and receiving kisses in the back of a screening room, greeting guests with mellifluous purrs of familiarity. The actress is all but retired in Paris since appearing in the television mini-series North and South in the mid-1980s. Olivia de Havilland (1916-), still spry and lively in her mid-eighties, is the only surviving principal cast member remaining from Gone With the Wind. School of Philosophical, Historical, and International StudiesĮras Journal – Anderson, D.,: “Print the Legend” – Gone With the Wind as Myth and Memory ‘Print The Legend’ Gone With The Wind as Myth and Memory David Anderson (University of Dundee) ![]()
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