Rocky Road to Atlanta: Meet Author Pauline Bartel

Program Type:

History & Genealogy, Featured

Age Group:

Adult
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Description

Are you a Gone With the Wind fan? Want to hear some gossip? Local author Pauline Bartel will share surprising behind-the-scenes stories about the casting of Gone With the Wind’s principal roles: Clark Gable (Rhett), Vivien Leigh (Scarlett), Leslie Howard (Ashley) and Olivia de Havilland (Melanie). She’ll then reveal how producer David O. Selznick and his dream cast survived nightmarish months of trouble and turmoil on and off the set, leading to the film’s Atlanta premiere.

Pauline Bartel is a Gone With the Wind film expert and the author of Gone With the Wind: 1939 Day by Day (2022) and The Complete GONE WITH THE WIND Trivia Book (2nd ed.). You can visit Pauline's website https://paulinebartel.com/paulines-books/ here: