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...other in cinema history except Ben Hur ($4,500,000) and Hell's Angels ($4,000,000). They knew it was one of the longest pictures ever filmed (three hours and three quarters of Technicolored action). Above all, most of them knew by heart the love story of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, and they were there to protest if it had undergone a single serious film change. Putting it on fPm had been a job as fantastic as the ballyhoo...
Racked though they were with Scarlett fever, the U. S. cinemillions on one point were constant-the people's choice to play Rhett Butler was Clark Gable...
...city, Colonel Carter found his playful love affair with Lillie growing serious, married her despite his need for money, the political favoritism that blocked his promotion, her father's fear of him, her sophisticated New Orleans aunt's frank advances toward him. As sardonic a figure as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but far more plausible, Colonel Carter became a drinker without believing he drank, sold government supplies without believing he was dishonest, and-before Lillie's baby was born-drifted into a love affair with Lillie's young aunt without losing his belief...
...TIME made no "charges," is at a loss to understand Governor Maybank's. TIME said: "Mayor of Charleston then (1935), and ambitious head of the State Public Service Authority, was Burnet Rhett Maybank, 40, first Charleston aristocrat since the Civil War with the energy and ability to win over enough low-born upstate farmers and mill hands to get himself elected Governor, which he did last year...
Mayor of Charleston then, and ambitious head of the State Public Service Authority, was Burnet Rhett Maybank, 40, first Charleston aristocrat since the Civil War with the energy and ability to win over enough low-born upstate farmers and mill hands to get himself elected Governor, which he did last year...