Same, even though I only watched this movie for the first time a few weeks ago, I LOVE IT and it’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen and the book is even better! 😀❤️
Gone with the Wind has and will always be one of my favorite classic movies. I have the book and would love to visit this great museum. God bless you for making my day.
The museum has moved into the Bromley house in Marietta GA although lovely it’s much smaller than what’s shown here and does not have all the items displayed in this video and what a shame would have love to see that round table with the top 4 cast and the dinnerware just to mention a few
Gone With the Wind is my all time favorite movie. Each actor/actress was perfect for the part! I have also read the book three times during my life (about every 15 years).
We bought our Gone With the Wind movie online. I watched it for the first time in my life (I’m 40 years old) and I LOVED it. One of the most beautiful movies ever made. I hope to visit this museum someday.
This said more about the 1930s than about 1860s South. Most people were struggling in the Depression. A strong woman fighting to survive at all costs resonated with most Americans.
My mother, two granddaughters and myself went yesterday to this museum. I loved it. I read letters/memos between Selznick and another looking for the Rhett Butler actor. Henry Fonda and another... Vincent Price were mentioned. They made the right choice with Clark Gable. Scarlets dresses were beautiful and she was a little thing but a lot of spitfire.
That is one thing I love about seeing old costumes, the tiny clothes most actors and actresses wore. My friend went and saw Ann Margret. He's 5'7" and on his Facebook pics she was hardly tall as his shoulder. Tennie Tiny.
@@stevehansen932 You are right but ypu forgot one thing. Gone With The Wind was every sunday on the first page of the newspaper for nearly 5 years! The movie took so long to produce and the hype was unbelivable great! So Waner wanted to make a "Gone With the wind" like movie so that he can make a lot of money. The actors also wanted to play in the GWTW fake in order to impress the GWTW producer. A lot of things were cut out of Jazeabell because its main Charakter was a real clone of Scarlett. Yeah, thats the short story about it.
neonia hazelwood-- Robert Tonner obtained the rights to Plunkett's designs from GWTW and created one of the most authentic Scarlett dolls ever to be sold. The Franklin Mint offered a more affordable and rather well-made 16 inch version replica dolls and outfits (but they did not make ALL of them). Tonner recreated every outfit, including the ones that never made it into the movie as it was released. Alas, The Tonner Doll Company is closed now, but Tonner is still working, affiliated with: www.phynandaero.com/American-Beauty-_p_1262.html www.tonnercollectibles.com/2010collection.htm
@@onemercilessming1342 Thank you so much for posting this! I tracked him down since the link is not working anymore, and the dolls can still be purchased!!!
@@JClover2--I'm glad you could find both Mr. Tonner and the dolls. I have several of this, but not the GWTW. My favorite is the 22-inch American Model. I can find other wigs and sewing patterns for her on eBay. There is a doll enthusiast who creates sewing patterns for various dolls. I can never remember her name, but if I key in "Kitty Collier 18 inch doll sewing patterns, I can usually find her on eBay. Tonner made an 18 inch Kitty Collier, then discontinued that one and reintroduced her as a 10 1/2 in "Tiny Kitty Collier" doll with an incredible wardrobe.
@Robert Lee, Countertenor You mean the agenda of non-white people being treated fairly, and not facing bias all their life because they are not white skinned ? Imagine if you faced life-long prejudice and lost opportunities all your life because your hair was the 'wrong colour'.
@@GFSTaylor Oh for God’s sake get off your high horse. You know exactly what they were talking about- the censorship of the past. Movies like this having warnings before it in case it offends people- all because it was set in a period of history that actually happened. Pathetic.
Thank you Steve for putting this online, for others, like me ,who cannot visit in person. I only have to hear the first few notes of Tara's Theme for the tears to flow.
Yes, I can't believe those costumes are exposed to the elements without proper conservation. If they are the real ones, such as the green velvet made from the drapes, and Vivien Leighs petticoat dress, at auction, they are worth several million for those two alone. Debbie Reynolds collection of Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland were packed in acid free wrappings and put in humidity free vaults. I'm curious if anyone has an update or more info. Thanks
My youngest sister loved this movie and the book so much she named her daughter ashleigh and her son rhett. my brother-in-law didn't even get a look in when it came to names
they put it back with a commentary of the racist stuff. Which the movie had plenty. Ironic the movie would not use "KKK" (they substituted it with "political meetings") as the book did but yet they made Sam look so stupid telling the horses to make tracts when he rescued Scarlett but yet he was smart enough to fight off 3 men to do that. That did not happen in the book. Margaret Mitchell wrote the black people as intelligent she ws very respectful in how she wrote their characters. the only silly black person in the book was Prissy but she was 13 not 35 as shown in the movie. Her lines fit a silly young teen girl, but not a 35 year old woman.
Yeah and I’m very disappointed that retailers in Australia have seized selling the ‘Gone With The Wind’ DVD shortly after the black lives matter movement, luckily I have the movie recorded on my FOXTEL
This stands true for parts of my life and how it has changed. I can only "Look for it in story books, for it is nothing more than a dream remembered, a civilization Gone With The Wind."
to me she was making a point. An unrealistic dream for some and nightmare for many others, that life. Also Scareltt's foolish unrealistic view of Ashley whom she believed she was in love with.
I was there last year, we drove from Nebraska down to Savannah ga. We stopped in Marietta along the way in order to see this museum, not knowing what they had inside or anything other then the fact that Marietta had a gwtw museum. The best things to see are an original smoking jacket worn by either Ashley or Rhett in the movie, (I can’t remember which one think it was Ashley) and some original chairs from scarlett’s mansion, and an original dress worn by Vivian Leigh. they took the original chairs that you see in this video in glass cases, out of the glass cases and they are up against one of the walls and merely roped off. They were the red velvet horsehair chairs from the novel. I wonder why they did that. It is more impressive behind the glass and I saw it personally. These are the original chairs that are pictured in more than one scene in the movie, they are most noticeable in scarletts mansion during the part where Melanie has to go into rhetts room. The dress that is in a white glass case is the only original movie dress. it is the actual dress worn by Vivian Leigh in the scene with Clark gable when they are on their honeymoon and they are in their room and she is looking over all the presents that she brought to take home to family members. It was tailored to Vivian Leigh’s exact measurements and the dress is very tiny. She was a small woman. It is the most interesting item in the museum. When you look at it up close you can see the authenticity in the material and in the stitching, I’ve never seen anything like it. it was tailored, hand stitched and sewn just for Vivian Leigh, the materials are original and its made of good quality materials and made as authentic as possible because the producers wanted the actresses to feel what it was really like to be a southern belle so they spared no expense on the dresses. That dress was worth the drive over to Marietta, there is also a civil was cemetery across the street and up the road from this museum, but that dress was incredible a real piece of history and was worth a pit stop off the beaten path of our travel itinerary. Real American history I asked why it was the only authentic dress in the museum (the other dresses are all were replicas) and the attendant said that the Selznick movie producers reused most of their costume pieces for other movies and so many dresses were lost. What a shame! She mentioned another original dress in one other museum, and then a dress that is not in good or viewable shape that is kept in one of the universities, don’t know where assuming it’s one of the southern public universities, prob kept for restoration/preservation purposes
Hi, Langy: I wouldn't swear to it, but there's a good chance that the university the attendant referred to is the University of Texas (Austin). The Harry Ransom Center located there has the David Selznick archives, and I seem to remember that they're doing extensive restoration/preservation work on the costumes that they have in their collection. As for curtain dress? A best I've been able to figure out, Diana Vreeland managed to get that one for the Museum of Modern Art.
Thank you for sharing this. I never knew of this museum. Have always meant to get to Savannah and Charleston. I see I must also plan on Marietta. This made my day.
Owwww how much I wish to be able to visit I am in love with this movie clark and Vivian...I’ve read the book more than 40 times ! The movie over 50 times ..obsessed ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have such fond memories of this movie. My mother took me to see it when I was about 10 years old and I have seen it many many times since. I would say it has been my favorite book and my favorite movie for all time. Thank you for sharing about this museum. I did not know it existed.
My dad was sick and had to be flown down to Atlanta I saw the sign for the museum, but was so distressed it never crossed my mind to go. I think this summer both my dad and will go down and visit. 😊
I have watched the restoration of some of the costumes on another channel and love seeing the final products. I became interested in the history of slavery as a result of the novel. I highly recommend reading the book if you like the movie. The book is very well written and better, because of the more complete storytelling.
It's my world. I am very romantic. Sorry! I have a dream. ...dream of love and I engioy when I look these very nice film. Sorry for my filing from romantic. ..by
Steve, thanks so much for posting this! The way you filmed it, it was jut like taking a stroll through the museum. Obviously, I wished you could have paused in front of each artifact/display --- but to paraphrase Vivien Leigh's Oscar acceptance speech, "I'm afraid that (you'd) have to entertain (is) with RUclips clip as long as 'Gone with the wind" itself." It's wonderful, the memories that each exhibit brings back, accentuated by Max Steiner's wonderful score. Again, my thanks.
My absolute favorite movie! Not what you’d expect hearing from a 20 year old i suppose! Got me soo interested in history and reenactment. Aside from the book, what things are at the gift shop there? If there is one!
Oh my God I HAVE to cross the pond and go here one day!! I read GWTW every year, and have the film on DVD. I absolutely love it. Was lucky enough to see Scarlett’s gorgeous curtain dress and the stunning red party dress at the V& A Museum a few years back. They were in fantastic condition!
I was wondering what happened to that portrait of Scarlett, in the dinning room wall. Glad it was preserved. AND shameful after all these years not one mention of the blacks in the movie. Hattie, for Pete's sake, won an OSCAR for her genuine roll in that film. The bigotry still hangs in this museum!
I know people wouldn't agree with me because it's such a classic but I think a more historically accurate remake could be great. The remake of Roots was so much better than the original. I think they could do a great job
I soooo want to go there! I've been obsessed with Gone With the Wind after finishing the book and rewatching the movie. I love Scarlett and Rhett! :cry: Thank you for the video! I would probably buy the entire gift shop.
Looks interesting. But the way those dresses are displayed is terrible? They need to have hooped petticoats underneath to give them body. Here, they all look floppy and mis-shaped. Curator - take note!
andres segui--Some of the dresses are too fragile to be displayed. There are various websites with information on the original dresses (or replicas) from the movie. Here are a few: www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/wind-iconic-green-dress-faded-restore-original-condition-article-1.160104 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/04/gone-with-the-wind-scarlett-ohara-dress www.thesprucecrafts.com/gone-with-the-wind-gowns-149061
I love looking at things from years ago and museums of items from films and of course those dressess that were worn on the set of gone of the wind.i love Vivien Lee she was so beautiful rest in peace to her Amen.🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷💐💐💐🌻🌻🌻🌹🕊.she may be gone but shes not forgotten Godbless her.🙏🕊💖
Yeah what a beautiful. I enjoyed the tour you provided? But. Lol? I won't think about that today. I'll think about it tomorrow have a good one everybody
The one with the hat is original. These auction for up to $147,000 apiece, so sorry they don't have $5 million in one of a kind antiques in a little spot on the Square.
The Scarlett 'costumes" are bad replicas. The "Green Sprig Dress", "White Muslin Dress", "Burgundy Velvet Dress" "Ashley's Farewell Dress" are really not great copies. Why display some of them on coat hangers? It's a shame to pass these off as originals.
they aren't they are passing them as replicas of the originals, they don't have all the money in the world, they have to get they're stuff from somewhere to make the museum work and dresses that are like the originals is a good way to make the place work
The movie is sad, sad for the southern people sad for the black people sad for all who perished in the war, also sad for the actual actors sad for old Hollywood, thus film is a double gone with the wind, all these amazing actors now dead, a different world.
The last survivor was Olivia De Havilland who died in Paris, France at the age of 101. Leslie Howard died during WWII when his plane was shot down by the Germans. Vivian Leigh died In the late 50s in a mental health facility. And Clark Gable died on a heart attack in the early 1960s shortly before his only son was born.
When I was young we happen to have a special showing of this on the big screen. My mother took me. She said this the only way to see this movie . She was right. What a movie. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨❤️
I read the book in high school while in bed with chicken pox. My girlfriends and I went to our local movie theater to see it (several times ) when it was re-released to theaters in the 60s. So far I’ve collected a VHS and two anniversary DVDs...and I’ve been to the GWTW museum in downtown Atlanta; an unpolluted by tall “modern” buildings. The historically minded have saved the small apartment building where Margaret Mitchell wrote the book. Any time I want to escape our current virus lockdown I walk to my 27” Mac and pop in one of my DVDs. I also have another 1939 classic, the Wizard of Oz. It too is on the top shelf of my thrift-store DVD collection just to the right of Gone With the Wind. Those who lobbied to get it removed from air-play succeeded for only a couple of weeks. Others who think that removing classic films and statues of historic figures from our collective past open the door for those who would rewrite history in their own half-informed image. Re-read “1984” and learn how the dictatorial leaders did the exact same thing. Art imitating life...and history repeating itself.
It maybe soon shut down for racism. Queen Latifah wants the movie done away with, because of actress Hattie McDaniel was not given the proper respect when she got her Acadamy award for best supporting actress.
@@patricksaxon3983 Oh for God sake this world is getting crazier and crazier...such a classic film I have it on dvd, soon time to have a slumpadinka day on my couch and watch it again 💕 one of my daughter's is called Tara not because of the film it's a Irish Celtic name....
Gone With The Wind was one of the all time classic stories ever told, the building looks rather seedy in a rather seedy part of town. They need a much better building and a way better display, that collection could be turned into a very spectacular sight to behold. They need a bigger building and design experts to make beautiful life like displays of important scenes and little stages with good lighting to show off Scarlets gowns, the Museum does not do justice how great Gone With The Wind was.
I don't think all of the gowns in the museum are originals from the movie. The museum building is actually on the square of historic Marietta, Ga (Battle of Kennesaw Mountain) and is from the Civil War period. Not really sure, but I think most of the things on display are from a private collection. It's a great stop for history buffs and we really enjoyed our visit.
There is so much political outcry over anything dealing with the confederacy I’m surprised they haven’t noticed this. I agree, it needs to be displayed better, however they took down the historic 360 degree painting of the battle of Atlanta, the burning of the city, called the Cyclorama and destroyed it or dumped it somewhere. My dad told me the painting was done in the 30s while there were still living witnesses to tell it as it really was. I got to see it as a little girl and I an 69 now....don’t know what they did with it. So sad that certain folks want to rewrite history. Much information will be lost.
I think the dresses are reproductions. Scarlett's opening plantation dress seems too white for the movie cameras and the barbecue dress doesn't seem quite the fabric. Not a complaint, just interested...
Mr Gable stepmother did a great job in his life up bringing. Be coming the man that he was handsome nice smile kind hearted ❤ in life. I love Gone with the wind he was great as Rhet Buttler he treated Blacks People kindness. They didn't give him a Oscar in Gone with the wind thats OK you got the Best Oscar of all the Golden Grown and Stars that still shine for every May GOD BlESS and your family 👪 and friends always Mr Clark Gable. KJP.
Love this film and book. Have few souvenirs from the film brought back by my daughter from America. It will always always be mine and thousands of others favourite story. Who could resist Rhett !!
One and only I never get bored no matter how many times I watched this amazing movie too close to my heart
Same, even though I only watched this movie for the first time a few weeks ago, I LOVE IT and it’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen and the book is even better! 😀❤️
I need to watch this again. I saw it once when I was a teenager (btw not the best age to watch this movie)
I will föy to america this year and i will visit the place of the old selznick studios, the Loews Grand Theatre and this museum.
Gone with the Wind has and will always be one of my favorite classic movies. I have the book and would love to visit this great museum. God bless you for making my day.
You are more than welcome. So glad you liked the video.
The museum has moved into the Bromley house in Marietta GA although lovely it’s much smaller than what’s shown here and does not have all the items displayed in this video and what a shame would have love to see that round table with the top 4 cast and the dinnerware just to mention a few
@@rosesoucy7372 Thank you for the update! I'm hoping to go soon!
The book is better than film
@@xiaomixiaomi9324 Agreed!
Who else shivered when the opening music starts to play.... Oh how it was so beautiful and I love Rhett 😚
The music gives me chills EVERY time. Rhett is the man!
I do whenever I listen
I sure did this music always moves me and brings a tear in my eyes.
@Trey
This is for White people . They love this kind of crap.
@Lynda Anthony By far, the BEST motion picture of ALL TIME! Stop trolling and get a life!
Gone With the Wind is my all time favorite movie. Each actor/actress was perfect for the part! I have also read the book three times during my life (about every 15 years).
I just finished the book and rewatched the movie and now I'm heartbroken again and wanting everything GWTW.
It's ironic that both Vivian Leigh and Leslie Howard were classically trained British actors not American let alone Southern at all.
We bought our Gone With the Wind movie online. I watched it for the first time in my life (I’m 40 years old) and I LOVED it. One of the most beautiful movies ever made. I hope to visit this museum someday.
This said more about the 1930s than about 1860s South. Most people were struggling in the Depression. A strong woman fighting to survive at all costs resonated with most Americans.
Well said.
My mother, two granddaughters and myself went yesterday to this museum. I loved it. I read letters/memos between Selznick and another looking for the Rhett Butler actor. Henry Fonda and another... Vincent Price were mentioned. They made the right choice with Clark Gable. Scarlets dresses were beautiful and she was a little thing but a lot of spitfire.
and Henry Fonda was cast in Jezebel the GTWW copycat movie.
@@melvawages7143 Actually Jezebel came out the year before GWTW.
That is one thing I love about seeing old costumes, the tiny clothes most actors and actresses wore. My friend went and saw Ann Margret. He's 5'7" and on his Facebook pics she was hardly tall as his shoulder. Tennie Tiny.
I love ❤️ the film but we would call scarlet a narcissistic woman now !
@@stevehansen932 You are right but ypu forgot one thing. Gone With The Wind was every sunday on the first page of the newspaper for nearly 5 years! The movie took so long to produce and the hype was unbelivable great! So Waner wanted to make a "Gone With the wind" like movie so that he can make a lot of money. The actors also wanted to play in the GWTW fake in order to impress the GWTW producer. A lot of things were cut out of Jazeabell because its main Charakter was a real clone of Scarlett.
Yeah, thats the short story about it.
I love the beautiful dresses Scarlett wore in this great classic movie.
neonia hazelwood-- Robert Tonner obtained the rights to Plunkett's designs from GWTW and created one of the most authentic Scarlett dolls ever to be sold. The Franklin Mint offered a more affordable and rather well-made 16 inch version replica dolls and outfits (but they did not make ALL of them). Tonner recreated every outfit, including the ones that never made it into the movie as it was released. Alas, The Tonner Doll Company is closed now, but Tonner is still working, affiliated with: www.phynandaero.com/American-Beauty-_p_1262.html
www.tonnercollectibles.com/2010collection.htm
@@onemercilessming1342 Thank you so much for posting this! I tracked him down since the link is not working anymore, and the dolls can still be purchased!!!
@@JClover2--I'm glad you could find both Mr. Tonner and the dolls. I have several of this, but not the GWTW. My favorite is the 22-inch American Model. I can find other wigs and sewing patterns for her on eBay. There is a doll enthusiast who creates sewing patterns for various dolls. I can never remember her name, but if I key in "Kitty Collier 18 inch doll sewing patterns, I can usually find her on eBay. Tonner made an 18 inch Kitty Collier, then discontinued that one and reintroduced her as a 10 1/2 in "Tiny Kitty Collier" doll with an incredible wardrobe.
Where can I find this movie on RUclips
Please link me
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Gone With the Wind is my favorite movie ever ! 🌸🌺🌷🌻💐🌹🌼
I bought Vivien Leigh's french antique candlesticks at the VL Sotheby's auction a few years ago.
Everything about this movie was ahead of its time. Even the them music. At least 30 years ahead.
@Robert Lee, Countertenor You mean the agenda of non-white people being treated fairly, and not facing bias all their life because they are not white skinned ? Imagine if you faced life-long prejudice and lost opportunities all your life because your hair was the 'wrong colour'.
@@GFSTaylor Oh for God’s sake get off your high horse. You know exactly what they were talking about- the censorship of the past. Movies like this having warnings before it in case it offends people- all because it was set in a period of history that actually happened. Pathetic.
Thank you Steve for putting this online, for others, like me ,who cannot visit in person. I only have to hear the first few notes of Tara's Theme for the tears to flow.
I didn't know they have a museum. I would love to go there someday
Me too someday
Don't Tell anymone where this Place they might Do something bad to it...
Especially with the BLW movement where everything is discrimination to them !!! What a different world we are living in !!!!
I was thinking the same thing.
Yes. Too many highly opinionated nutters out there, these days.
😂😂 yeah please don’t tell them. I don’t want them to destroy or ruin this museum
Who cares...
I cannot remember how mant times I have,seen this film...it is,always like the first time
Better hire security to guard it so it doesn't get destroyed.
Yes...just what I was thinking!
Yes, I can't believe those costumes are exposed to the elements without proper conservation. If they are the real ones, such as the green velvet made from the drapes, and Vivien Leighs petticoat dress, at auction, they are worth several million for those two alone. Debbie Reynolds collection of Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland were packed in acid free wrappings and put in humidity free vaults. I'm curious if anyone has an update or more info. Thanks
I hope they do because I want to see it one day!!
You just read my thoughts thank you. This is still one of my favorite movies and it is now 2020!
Mebbe you can put a bigly bunch of cracker barrels outside the front door to keep antifa out?
My youngest sister loved this movie and the book so much she named her daughter ashleigh and her son rhett. my brother-in-law didn't even get a look in when it came to names
Ashley was a man. She should have picked Melanie or Bonnie for a girl.
She is a genius, ashleigh!!
I'd name her Scarlett
@@melvawages7143- Man women’s names were originally men’s names first. My paternal grandfather’s first name was Shirley.
So sad they have taken this off streaming (June 2020 😩)
Schmevie Schmeves I think it will be back...they have to add a disclaimer to the beginning to warn people they may see “the past” in the movie.
Yeah it returned to hbo max at least
Schmevie Schmeves. I have this movie and the spin off Scarlet. My favorite movie.
they put it back with a commentary of the racist stuff. Which the movie had plenty. Ironic the movie would not use "KKK" (they substituted it with "political meetings") as the book did but yet they made Sam look so stupid telling the horses to make tracts when he rescued Scarlett but yet he was smart enough to fight off 3 men to do that. That did not happen in the book. Margaret Mitchell wrote the black people as intelligent she ws very respectful in how she wrote their characters. the only silly black person in the book was Prissy but she was 13 not 35 as shown in the movie. Her lines fit a silly young teen girl, but not a 35 year old woman.
Yeah and I’m very disappointed that retailers in Australia have seized selling the ‘Gone With The Wind’ DVD shortly after the black lives matter movement, luckily I have the movie recorded on my FOXTEL
This stands true for parts of my life and how it has changed. I can only "Look for it in story books, for it is nothing more than a dream remembered, a civilization Gone With The Wind."
Sunny Valentine you are so right. I was born and raised in the south. Things have certainly changed, some for the better, some worse.
to me she was making a point. An unrealistic dream for some and nightmare for many others, that life. Also Scareltt's foolish unrealistic view of Ashley whom she believed she was in love with.
Such a fitting quote before movie started.
Thanks for the video. I would love to go there and see all of this in person.
joyr36 me to
Scarlet gets all the grief in this mivie/book, but I think Ashley is to blame: he led Scarlett on, all along.
Not really. Ashley was just too polite to be rude.
@@melvawages7143 He should have read a few RUclips comments, it would have emboldened him.
Olivia De Havilland turned 104 on July 1 2020.
The rest of the cast are probably all dead !!!
I can’t believe she’s still alive. Good for her!
Olivia de Havilland died
@@lanas1149 Olivia de Havilland died
Kathryn Nard yes I know she’s dead now. RIP Olivia De Havilland
An incredible treasure, if they could make movies like this again. 1937-1950
I can't believe some of those dresses are just sitting out there like that. Highly unlikely they're the originals.
they are all copies but one. and not very good ones.
Of course they're not the real ones. They wouldn't be able to conserve them adequately
You can read at 1:50 that there is only one original dress on display
Kevin Coxh
Only one original and its in a glass case.
I was there last year, we drove from Nebraska down to Savannah ga. We stopped in Marietta along the way in order to see this museum, not knowing what they had inside or anything other then the fact that Marietta had a gwtw museum.
The best things to see are an original smoking jacket worn by either Ashley or Rhett in the movie, (I can’t remember which one think it was Ashley) and some original chairs from scarlett’s mansion, and an original dress worn by Vivian Leigh.
they took the original chairs that you see in this video in glass cases, out of the glass cases and they are up against one of the walls and merely roped off. They were the red velvet horsehair chairs from the novel. I wonder why they did that. It is more impressive behind the glass and I saw it personally. These are the original chairs that are pictured in more than one scene in the movie, they are most noticeable in scarletts mansion during the part where Melanie has to go into rhetts room.
The dress that is in a white glass case is the only original movie dress. it is the actual dress worn by Vivian Leigh in the scene with Clark gable when they are on their honeymoon and they are in their room and she is looking over all the presents that she brought to take home to family members. It was tailored to Vivian Leigh’s exact measurements and the dress is very tiny. She was a small woman. It is the most interesting item in the museum.
When you look at it up close you can see the authenticity in the material and in the stitching, I’ve never seen anything like it. it was tailored, hand stitched and sewn just for Vivian Leigh, the materials are original and its made of good quality materials and made as authentic as possible because the producers wanted the actresses to feel what it was really like to be a southern belle so they spared no expense on the dresses. That dress was worth the drive over to Marietta, there is also a civil was cemetery across the street and up the road from this museum, but that dress was incredible a real piece of history and was worth a pit stop off the beaten path of our travel itinerary. Real American history
I asked why it was the only authentic dress in the museum (the other dresses are all were replicas) and the attendant said that the Selznick movie producers reused most of their costume pieces for other movies and so many dresses were lost. What a shame! She mentioned another original dress in one other museum, and then a dress that is not in good or viewable shape that is kept in one of the universities, don’t know where assuming it’s one of the southern public universities, prob kept for restoration/preservation purposes
Hi, Langy: I wouldn't swear to it, but there's a good chance that the university the attendant referred to is the University of Texas (Austin). The Harry Ransom Center located there has the David Selznick archives, and I seem to remember that they're doing extensive restoration/preservation work on the costumes that they have in their collection. As for curtain dress? A best I've been able to figure out, Diana Vreeland managed to get that one for the Museum of Modern Art.
Totally agree with you that the black and white honeymoon dress was the highlight (and a great one) of the museum. I live in Marietta, BTW.
Thank you for sharing this. I never knew of this museum. Have always meant to get to Savannah and Charleston. I see I must also plan on Marietta. This made my day.
I would absolutely love to visit this museum !! Gone With The Wind is one of my all time favorites
Owwww how much I wish to be able to visit
I am in love with this movie clark and Vivian...I’ve read the book more than 40 times ! The movie over 50 times ..obsessed ❤️❤️❤️❤️
"As God is my witness. . . I'll never be hungry again!"
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a dang." (Not accurate, but y'all know the real thing 😂)
and eat that radish, dirt and all!
Perfect casting - and Selznick too, everything fell into place for this movie !
I have such fond memories of this movie. My mother took me to see it when I was about 10 years old and I have seen it many many times since. I would say it has been my favorite book and my favorite movie for all time. Thank you for sharing about this museum. I did not know it existed.
This was great. I know I will never get to this lovely museum but I certainly would love to!!!
wonderful tour...this movie is one of my top ten faves...loved it
My dad was sick and had to be flown down to Atlanta I saw the sign for the museum, but was so distressed it never crossed my mind to go. I think this summer both my dad and will go down and visit. 😊
I have watched the restoration of some of the costumes on another channel and love seeing the final products.
I became interested in the history of slavery as a result of the novel. I highly recommend reading the book if you like the movie. The book is very well written and better, because of the more complete storytelling.
Обожаю этот фильм. Благодаря:1) сюжет, 2) игра актеров, особенно главных, 3) шикарные наряды Скарлет. Они прекрасны.
It's my world. I am very romantic. Sorry! I have a dream. ...dream of love and I engioy when I look these very nice film. Sorry for my filing from romantic. ..by
I went to the museum years ago. Wonderful place and my fave movie.
There is another GWTW museum in Jonesboro, GA. Called The Road To Tara museum. Pretty darned cool.
Ellen Ramsey, I saw that and yes it was so cool.
One of the greatest movies of all time! Being southern makes this movie even greater..
here in Brazil, we watch this movie two to three times a week on the TCM channel. I've been watching since I was 14
Best movie of all times! Best novel of all times! Dear to my heart, my ancestors lived through it in the same area this story took place.
The dresses!!! The dresses are just so beautiful!!
Steve, thanks so much for posting this! The way you filmed it, it was jut like taking a stroll through the museum. Obviously, I wished you could have paused in front of each artifact/display --- but to paraphrase Vivien Leigh's Oscar acceptance speech, "I'm afraid that (you'd) have to entertain (is) with RUclips clip as long as 'Gone with the wind" itself." It's wonderful, the memories that each exhibit brings back, accentuated by Max Steiner's wonderful score. Again, my thanks.
The Margaret Mitchell House in Midtown Atlanta (where she wrote most of the book) on Peachtree St. is also a wonderful place to visit.
My absolute favorite movie! Not what you’d expect hearing from a 20 year old i suppose! Got me soo interested in history and reenactment. Aside from the book, what things are at the gift shop there? If there is one!
Oh my God I HAVE to cross the pond and go here one day!! I read GWTW every year, and have the film on DVD. I absolutely love it. Was lucky enough to see Scarlett’s gorgeous curtain dress and the stunning red party dress at the V& A Museum a few years back. They were in fantastic condition!
I was wondering what happened to that portrait of Scarlett, in the dinning room wall. Glad it was preserved. AND shameful after all these years not one mention of the blacks in the movie. Hattie, for Pete's sake, won an OSCAR for her genuine roll in that film. The bigotry still hangs in this museum!
I know people wouldn't agree with me because it's such a classic but I think a more historically accurate remake could be great. The remake of Roots was so much better than the original. I think they could do a great job
I soooo want to go there! I've been obsessed with Gone With the Wind after finishing the book and rewatching the movie. I love Scarlett and Rhett! :cry: Thank you for the video! I would probably buy the entire gift shop.
I'd love to come here! I live in Douglasville, which is about 43 minutes away. Someone come pick me up and take me here! 😂
I hope you can go and see it! We need to do things that bring us happiness
@@johnlorenzen4633 Me too! I love all things historic! This would be a dream to go and check out.
Looks interesting. But the way those dresses are displayed is terrible? They need to have hooped petticoats underneath to give them body. Here, they all look floppy and mis-shaped. Curator - take note!
Dianaemanuel well whatever they're doing it's working. The condition of the costumes is flawless!
they are not the original ones
andres segui--Some of the dresses are too fragile to be displayed. There are various websites with information on the original dresses (or replicas) from the movie. Here are a few:
www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/wind-iconic-green-dress-faded-restore-original-condition-article-1.160104
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/04/gone-with-the-wind-scarlett-ohara-dress
www.thesprucecrafts.com/gone-with-the-wind-gowns-149061
@@onemercilessming1342 : Thanks for the links.
@@olivermurrihy2970--You're welcome.
Thank you for posting. This was interesting to watch as it is one of my favourite films and I would never have the opportunity to visit the Museum.
Only Olivia is left now :(
I love looking at things from years ago and museums of items from films and of course those dressess that were worn on the set of gone of the wind.i love Vivien Lee she was so beautiful rest in peace to her Amen.🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷💐💐💐🌻🌻🌻🌹🕊.she may be gone but shes not forgotten Godbless her.🙏🕊💖
My favorite book; my favorite movie‼️ They banned it in my hometown Libraries. Ridiculous‼️🥵🥵
absolutely amazing
Yeah what a beautiful. I enjoyed the tour you provided? But. Lol? I won't think about that today. I'll think about it tomorrow have a good one everybody
Hate to tell you, but some of those dresses if not all, are not the originals.
Dah, really?
The one with the hat is original. These auction for up to $147,000 apiece, so sorry they don't have $5 million in one of a kind antiques in a little spot on the Square.
The Scarlett 'costumes" are bad replicas. The "Green Sprig Dress", "White Muslin Dress", "Burgundy Velvet Dress" "Ashley's Farewell Dress" are really not great copies. Why display some of them on coat hangers? It's a shame to pass these off as originals.
they aren't they are passing them as replicas of the originals, they don't have all the money in the world, they have to get they're stuff from somewhere to make the museum work and dresses that are like the originals is a good way to make the place work
The honeymoon gown is the original. The others are replicas. It won’t stop me from enjoying the museum.
Loved 🥰 this film love ❤️ the dresses ! 🏴🌹
I saw this museum, the only time I was in Georgia, about 18 years ago. Well worth it‼️❣️
Can I have that green and white she wore for the barbecue oh I love it I love it!!!
この映画はMGMではなくセルズニックという個人プロデューサーによって制作されたという歴史が驚きだ。
They just don’t make movies like this anymore. Scenery alone takes your breath away
The movie is a classic! People need to leave things alone!!!
Those dresses look like reproductions. Are the actual gowns at the Smithsonian?
Love movies , especially the classics.
Gone with the wind .
1 of my all time favorites.
Thank you for this , it was
EXCELLENT
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The movie is sad, sad for the southern people sad for the black people sad for all who perished in the war, also sad for the actual actors sad for old Hollywood, thus film is a double gone with the wind, all these amazing actors now dead, a different world.
Gone With the Wind is about loss.
The last survivor was Olivia De Havilland who died in Paris, France at the age of 101. Leslie Howard died during WWII when his plane was shot down by the Germans. Vivian Leigh died In the late 50s in a mental health facility. And Clark Gable died on a heart attack in the early 1960s shortly before his only son was born.
Well done....loved it
I'd love to visit this museum. Thanks for a peek inside.
My favorite Thanksgiving after dinner movie!
When I was young we happen to have a special showing of this on the big screen. My mother took me. She said this the only way to see this movie . She was right. What a movie. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨❤️
I read the book in high school while in bed with chicken pox. My girlfriends and I went to our local movie theater to see it (several times ) when it was re-released to theaters in the 60s. So far I’ve collected a VHS and two anniversary DVDs...and I’ve been to the GWTW museum in downtown Atlanta; an unpolluted by tall “modern” buildings. The historically minded have saved the small apartment building where Margaret Mitchell wrote the book. Any time I want to escape our current virus lockdown I walk to my 27” Mac and pop in one of my DVDs. I also have another 1939 classic, the Wizard of Oz. It too is on the top shelf of my thrift-store DVD collection just to the right of Gone With the Wind.
Those who lobbied to get it removed from air-play succeeded for only a couple of weeks. Others who think that removing classic films and statues of historic figures from our collective past open the door for those who would rewrite history in their own half-informed image. Re-read “1984” and learn how the dictatorial leaders did the exact same thing. Art imitating life...and history repeating itself.
I love when Scarlet called Ashley with her sigh breath "Oh Ashley "
Always will love this amazing movie 🎬 watched it many times .
Looking at the model of the dress, vivien leigh was so tiny and trim!
Green and white dress with the sash is my favorite
Ogni volta che lo ripropongono lo rivedo e non mi stanco mai di sognare guardandolo.
I sure hope they don't "cancel" this museum!
So hope it wasn’t torched or vandalized in any way.
gotta visit
Given today's current political climate, and I'm surprised it's still allowed to stand
Yep. They would burn the place down and then turn around and kill several more of their own. Idiots.
It maybe soon shut down for racism. Queen Latifah wants the movie done away with, because of actress Hattie McDaniel was not given the proper respect when she got her Acadamy award for best supporting actress.
@@patricksaxon3983 Oh for God sake this world is getting crazier and crazier...such a classic film I have it on dvd, soon time to have a slumpadinka day on my couch and watch it again 💕 one of my daughter's is called Tara not because of the film it's a Irish Celtic name....
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I would love to visit there. Max Steiner’s music is lush.
Gone With The Wind was one of the all time classic stories ever told, the building looks rather seedy in a rather seedy part of town. They need a much better building and a way better display, that collection could be turned into a very spectacular sight to behold. They need a bigger building and design experts to make beautiful life like displays of important scenes and little stages with good lighting to show off Scarlets gowns, the Museum does not do justice how great Gone With The Wind was.
I don't think all of the gowns in the museum are originals from the movie. The museum building is actually on the square of historic Marietta, Ga (Battle of Kennesaw Mountain) and is from the Civil War period. Not really sure, but I think most of the things on display are from a private collection. It's a great stop for history buffs and we really enjoyed our visit.
There is so much political outcry over anything dealing with the confederacy I’m surprised they haven’t noticed this. I agree, it needs to be displayed better, however they took down the historic 360 degree painting of the battle of Atlanta, the burning of the city, called the Cyclorama and destroyed it or dumped it somewhere. My dad told me the painting was done in the 30s while there were still living witnesses to tell it as it really was. I got to see it as a little girl and I an 69 now....don’t know what they did with it. So sad that certain folks want to rewrite history. Much information will be lost.
The Cyclorama, in Atlanta, has been closed due to its being restored. It was not destroyed. The exhibit is supposed to be re opened February, 2019.
Every thing still looks beautiful 😸
To me, Gone With The Wind isn’t a movie. It was REAL w/ real people actually living it! I loved it. Great trip through the museum!
The white dress could be my wedding dress. So pretty.
Visited once while in Georgia, loved it
I think the dresses are reproductions. Scarlett's opening plantation dress seems too white for the movie cameras and the barbecue dress doesn't seem quite the fabric. Not a complaint, just interested...
Da li su ove haljine original?
Thank you from Virginia!
Унесённые ветром-это шедевр!!!
I can't believe those dresses aren't all behind glass if they are original.
They are not. I think all of the originals (that are left) are at the Ransom Archive in Texas.
I love this movie and glad I found this video
The best movie of all time.
Oh my!! I gotta go there! Wow!
Great! I was really touched to see the "witnesses" in the mythical movie that I loved the most. I love Scarlet and Rhett...
Mr Gable stepmother did a great job in his life up bringing. Be coming the man that he was handsome nice smile kind hearted ❤ in life. I love Gone with the wind he was great as Rhet Buttler he treated Blacks People kindness. They didn't give him a Oscar in Gone with the wind thats OK you got the Best Oscar of all the Golden Grown and Stars that still shine for every May GOD BlESS and your family 👪 and friends always Mr Clark Gable. KJP.
Love this film and book. Have few souvenirs from the film brought back by my daughter from America. It will always always be mine and thousands of others favourite story. Who could resist Rhett !!
OMG The red dress !!!
it's a copy,..and a very ordinary one at that, I'm afraid.