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Gone with the Wind (novel)


of mature, professional historians did not know until many years later. In "Gone with the Wind", Mitchell explores some complexities in racial issues. Scarlett was asked by a Yankee woman for advice on who to appoint as a nurse for her children; Scarlett suggested a "darky", much to the disgust of the Yankee woman who was seeking an Irish maid, a "Bridget". African Americans and Irish Americans are treated "in precisely the same way" in "Gone with the Wind", writes David
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African-American representation in Hollywood


year’s Oscar competition are cast as domestics, and would probably not have found meaty, starring roles in other films had they passed on “The Help.” This brings to mind the first black Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel, who received the award in 1940 for her portrayal of the loyal maid in “Gone With the Wind.” "When criticized for often playing a mammy on film, Ms. McDaniel famously said she would rather play a maid in the movies than be one." In a 2016 article titled "
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Butterfly McQueen


Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen (January 7, 1911December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film "Gone with the Wind". She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater. Often typecast as a maid, she said: "I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you got into the business
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Hattie McDaniel


the black servants longing to return to the Old South, but her portrayal of Malena in RKO Pictures's "Alice Adams" angered white Southern audiences, because she stole several scenes from the film's white star, Katharine Hepburn. McDaniel ultimately became best known for playing a sassy and opinionated maid. The competition to win the part of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" was almost as fierce as that for Scarlett O'Hara. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to film producer David O. Selznick to ask that her own maid,
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Butterfly McQueen


1939), filmed after "Gone with the Wind" but released before it. She also played Butterfly, Rochester's niece and Mary Livingstone's maid in the Jack Benny radio program for a time during World War II. She appeared in an uncredited role in "Mildred Pierce" (1945) (where she had a good amount of screen time) and played a supporting role in "Duel in the Sun" (1946). By 1947, she had grown tired of the ethnic stereotypes she was required to play
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What a Life (play)


talent scout for David O. Selznick, saw McQueen in this production and recommended her to Selznick. She screen tested and was cast in the role of Prissy, Scarlett's maid, in "Gone With the Wind" (1939). A 1982 attempted revival of "What a Life" at the Manhattan Punch Line failed. The production was panned in "The New York Times", with reviewer Mel Gussow writing: "The play is piffle. Far funnier efforts can be seen nightly in television reruns of situation comedies.
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Graph database


actor who was in that movie with that other actor that played the lead in Gone With the Wind". This first requires the system to find the actors in Gone With the Wind, find all the movies they were in, find all the actors in all of those movies who were not the lead in Gone With the Wind, and then find all of the movies they were in, finally filtering that list to those with descriptions containing "submarine". In a relational database this will require several separate searches through the
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The Wind Done Gone


. The title is an African American Vernacular English play on the original's title. Cynara's name comes from the Ernest Dowson poem "Non sum qualís eram bonae sub regno Cynarae", a line from which ("I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind") was the origin of Mitchell's novel's title. "Gone with the Wind" revolves around Scarlett O'Hara, a pampered Southern woman, who lives through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. "The Wind Done Gone" is the same
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List of The Facts of Life characters


singer named Flyman (played by Michael Damian) in the two-part episode, "Gone With the Wind". She was reunited with him in Season 7, where it was revealed he now had a lounge act in Las Vegas. In the last season, Jo married Rick Bonner, a concert musician and she asked Blair to be her maid of honor. Jo did not appear at the reunion TV special because it was stated that she was now a police officer and was working; however, Rick and their daughter
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India Wilkes


and India. India is one of the two people who see Scarlett and Ashley embrace. Because Melanie defends Scarlett and Ashley, India leaves the Wilkes home and moves in with Aunt Pittypat. India apologizes for the quarrel, later on, when Melanie is on her deathbed. India is a traditional southern Antebellum "lady" who takes the place of hostess and lady of the house after her mother dies. She remains unmarried at the end of "Gone with the Wind". India is referred to as an "old maid
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Gone with the Wind (film)


the "shiftless and dull-witted Pork", the "indolent and thoroughly irresponsible Prissy", Big Sam's "radiant acceptance of slavery", and Mammy with her "constant haranguing and doting on every wish of Scarlett". Following Hattie McDaniel's Oscar win, Walter Francis White, leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, accused her of being an Uncle Tom. McDaniel responded that she would "rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one"; she
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List of Devious Maids characters


but now is not the time as Zoila goes into labor. Complications occur, however, and Genevieve is left to decide who to prioritize: Zoila or her baby. Six months pass, into the fourth season, and it's revealed Genevieve chose to prioritize Zoila and that she lost her baby in the hospital. Zoila is unable to forgive Genevieve, and winds up quitting, taking a job for an away fashion executive instead. As she'll be gone for six months though, Zoila starts to pass herself off as the
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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind


where Sonia is seen as no different than any of the other maids. However while the big city is exciting and Sonia's lodgings are far more nice than her former home, Sonia finds herself the target of her supervisor (who picks at everything Sonia does) and the nephew of Sonia's boss (who views her as nothing more than a conquest to be won). Soon Sonia learns that her brother Rafael has gone missing shortly after he left Tres Montes, and Sonia must seek help from her old friend Pancho in
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Marcella Martin


Marcella Martin (June 5, 1916 – October 31, 1986) was an American actress, remembered for her role as Cathleen Calvert in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). Born in Illinois, Marcella Martin lived with her first husband John Martin in Shreveport (Louisiana) in the late 1930s. She appeared in a local amateur theatre, where she was found by Hollywood agents who were Searching for Scarlett. Martin was screen-tested for playing Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's "Gone with the Wind"
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Sean Connery


Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972. He appeared in John Huston’s "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975), starring opposite Michael Caine, with both actors regarding it as their favourite film. The same year, he appeared in "The Wind and the Lion", and in 1976 played Robin Hood in "Robin and Marian" where he starred opposite Audrey Hepburn who played Maid Marian. Film critic Roger Ebert – who had praised the double act of Connery and Caine in "
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Fred Crane (actor)


where his cousin, Leatrice Joy Gilbert, (daughter of Leatrice Joy) was going to audition for the part of Suellen in the movie, "Gone With the Wind." He was taking in all the sights and sounds of the studio, when during a discussion, his authentic Southern accent combined with striking good looks landed him a meeting with "Gone With The Wind" first director George Cukor and producer David O. Selznick, which led to a script reading with Vivien Leigh, who had been chosen to play Scarlett O'Hara
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List of Devious Maids characters


Alvarez (Naya Rivera) is a maid in Beverly Hills who is kidnapped and killed. Katy Stappord (Grecia Merino) is Taylor and Michael's adopted daughter with a mysterious past. Louie Becker (Eddie Mills) is a tennis pro who winds up dead. Christopher Neff (John O'Hurley) is a doctor who Genevieve almost marries. Jacklyn Dussault (Michelle Hurd) Deion (Issac Ryan Brown) is Evelyn and Adrian's foster son. Joy (Joy Osmanski) is Dr. Neff's maid and Zoila's rival. Benjamin
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Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly


The play—itself influenced by Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" and Tennessee Williams' "Baby Doll"—concerned a woman recently forced to undergo a hysterectomy by her abusive husband, who shortly thereafter left her for a younger woman. Having gone insane, the woman—redubbed "Mumsy"—forces her two children and her maid to join her in an elaborate role-playing game in which young societal drop-outs are welcomed into the family as new "children" for Mumsy. Both men thought that the play
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


of castration, Ashley wears the head of Medusa on his cravat pin. Scarlett's love interest, Ashley Wilkes, lacks manliness, and her husbands—the "calf-like" Charles Hamilton, and the "old-maid in britches", Frank Kennedy—are unmanly as well. Mitchell is critiquing masculinity in southern society since Reconstruction. Even Rhett Butler, the well-groomed dandy, is effeminate or "gay-coded." Charles, Frank and Ashley represent the impotence of the post-war white South
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia." In a general sense, the title is a metaphor for the demise of a way of life in the South prior to the Civil War. When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about "Cynara," the phrase "gone with the wind" alludes to erotic loss. The poem expresses the regrets of someone who has lost his passionate feelings for his "old passion," Cynara. Dowson's Cynara, a name that comes from the Greek word for
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Geraldine Jones (character)


character late in his career; he responded to most requests by saying: "She's retired." Since the mid-1960s, Wilson had been using high-pitched voices to characterize women in his comedy routines. He said he was inspired by Butterfly McQueen's innocent depiction of "Prissy", Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind". He used a high, brassy voice to portray from a black perspective both Queen Isabella (introduced as Queen Isabel Johnson) and a West Indian woman in
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


blossom, and a hilt placed against a background of green velvet. To commemorate the 75th anniversary (2011) of the publication of "Gone with the Wind" in 1936, Scribner published a paperback edition featuring the book's original jacket art. The Windies are ardent "Gone with the Wind" fans who follow all the latest news and events surrounding the book and film. They gather periodically in costumes from the film or dressed as Margaret Mitchell. Atlanta, Georgia is their meeting place. One story of the legacy of
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Saas Bina Sasural


forbade to touch or even talk with women is broken. Toasty then finds herself in a family in which there is a Dadaji (grandfather), Pitaji (father) and five brothers, Tej being the middle one. As all the women who came in this family are gone, she has to play the role of a warden for these men. Toasty finds out that the eldest son (Pashu) was married to Maalti. Maalti had run away as she thought that she was treated as a maid in this family.
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Vivien Leigh


do another film again!" Quoted in a 2006 biography of Olivier, Olivia de Havilland defended Leigh against claims of her manic behaviour during the filming of "Gone with the Wind": "Vivien was impeccably professional, impeccably disciplined on "Gone with the Wind". She had two great concerns: doing her best work in an extremely difficult role and being separated from Larry [Olivier], who was in New York." "Gone with the Wind" brought Leigh immediate attention and fame; but she was quoted
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The Wind Done Gone


The Wind Done Gone (2001) is the first novel written by Alice Randall. It is a bestselling historical novel that tells an alternative account of the story in the American novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. While the story of "Gone with the Wind" focuses on the life of the daughter of a wealthy slave owner, Scarlett O'Hara, "The Wind Done Gone" tells the story of the life of one of her slaves, Cynara, during the same time period and events
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Pilot (Devious Maids)


murder of a Latina maid in Beverly Hills and the introduction of her cadre of associates who are also Latina maids. The maids are shown in their employment surroundings with their upper class employers who play supporting roles. The main character is not actually a maid but rather the mother of the primary murder subject who poses as a maid to gain entrance into the world where she might find clues to prove her son's innocence. The pilot episode was released online in both Spanish and English on June 9, 2013, before its television
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Gone Maybe Gone


Barry Watson). As it looks like a wedding will take place and that Serena is the one who is getting married, Blair and Georgina tell the truth about who Serena is, ruining the wedding of two men; Serena was only a maid of honor. Blair apologizes to Serena for the mean words she said to her months ago but she responds that she wants a fresh start with Steven. It is revealed that Blair and Chuck made a pact to stay apart from each other in order to allow them to accomplish things
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Gone with the Wind (film)


the eldest daughter the third credit, despite having the most screen time. Similarly, Howard C. Hickman as John Wilkes is credited over Leslie Howard who plays his son, and Clark Gable, who plays only a visitor at Twelve Oaks, receives a relatively low credit in the cast list, despite being presented as the "star" of the film in all the promotional literature. Following the death of Mary Anderson—who played Maybelle Merriwether—in April 2014, there are only two surviving credited cast members from the film:
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The Scarlett O'Hara War


The Scarlett O'Hara War is a 1980 made-for-TV docudrama film directed by John Erman. It is based on the novel "Moviola" by Garson Kanin. Set in late 1930s Hollywood, it is about the search for the actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in the much anticipated film adaptation of "Gone with the Wind" (1939). This film premiered as the finale of a 3-night TV miniseries on NBC called "Moviola: A Hollywood Saga". In 1936, Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind
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Scarlett (musical)


-centered Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and her passionately turbulent relationship with dashing blockade runner Rhett Butler from the days prior to the American Civil War through the war itself and the following period of Reconstruction. In 1966, a nine-hour play (without music) based on "Gone with the Wind" opened at the Tokyo Imperial Theatre. This production was highly successful, and Kazuo Kikuta and the Toho Company decided to produce a musical version of "Gone with the Wind" at the same theatre. Kikuta wrote the book to
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Gone with the Wind (musical)


O'Hara respectively. The show was produced by Aldo Scrofani, Colin Ingram, Gary McAvay and the Nederlander Producing Company. The production closed on 14 June 2008, after 79 performances. This was not the first musical version of "Gone With the Wind". A musical adaptation by Harold Rome played a year at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1972, starring June Ritchie as Scarlett, and featuring Bonnie Langford. Margaret Martin, a newcomer to songwriting and playwriting, contacted the Stephen Mitchell Trust, sending tapes of songs and a draft
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, is mentioned briefly in "Gone with the Wind" as being accepted by the Yankees as "revelation second only to the Bible". The enduring interest of both "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Gone with the Wind" has resulted in lingering stereotypes of 19th-century African-American slaves. "Gone with the Wind" has become a reference point for subsequent writers about the South, both black and white alike. The
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Alice Randall


40 records; her songs have been performed by Trisha Yearwood and Mark O'Connor. Randall is the author of three novels: Her first novel "The Wind Done Gone", is a reinterpretation and parody of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind". "The Wind Done Gone" essentially tells the same story as "Gone with the Wind" but from the viewpoint of Scarlett O'Hara's half-sister Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation. Randall and her publishing company, Houghton Mifflin, were
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John Wiley Jr.


John Wiley Jr., is an expert on "Gone With the Wind" and the life of its author, Margaret Mitchell. Over the past 40 years, he has assembled a collection of more than 10,000 items of "Gone With the Wind" and Mitchell memorabilia – including every American edition of the novel and more than 1,000 foreign editions. His collection is featured in the "Complete Gone With the Wind Sourcebook." Wiley has published numerous articles on Mitchell and "Gone With the Wind" and has been interviewed by "
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The Wind Done Gone


, on the grounds that "The Wind Done Gone" was too similar to "Gone with the Wind", thus infringing its copyright. The case attracted numerous comments from leading scholars, authors, and activists, regarding what Mitchell's attitudes would have been and how much "The Wind Done Gone" copies from its predecessor. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated an injunction against publishing the book in "Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin" (2001), the case was settled in 2002 when Houghton Mifflin
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Hollywood Victory Committee


Reagan, he became active in politics after Chairing the Hollywood Victory Committee and organizing entertainment for the Armed Forces during the Second World War. Hd would serve as a senator from California for the Republican Party. Hattie McDaniel, famous for her role as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind", was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. Her Oscar for her role in "Gone With the Wind" was criticized by some since she won it playing the role of a slave. Though she generally avoided politics
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Margaret Sullavan


Mitchell's bestselling novel "Gone With the Wind", and the novel's film adaptation by four years; the latter became a blockbuster. Sullavan played a childish Southern belle who matures into a responsible woman. The film also dealt with the situation of characters who were freed black slaves. In "Next Time We Love" (1936), Sullavan plays opposite the then-unknown James Stewart. She had been campaigning for Stewart to be her leading man and the studio complied for fear that she would stage a threatened strike
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Tallulah Bankhead


Selznick, producer of "Gone with the Wind" (1939) called her the "first choice among established stars" to play Scarlett O'Hara. Although her screen test for the role in black-and-white was superb, she photographed poorly in Technicolor. Selznick also reportedly believed that at age 36, she was too old to play Scarlett, who is 16 at the beginning of the film (the role eventually went to Vivien Leigh). Selznick sent Kay Brown to Bankhead to discuss the possibility of Bankhead playing prostitute
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The Fair Maid of the Exchange


The Fair Maid of the Exchange is a Renaissance play attributed to Thomas Heywood. First printed in 1607, the play was subsequently reprinted in 1625 and in 1637. It tells the story of three wealthy brothers – Ferdinand, Anthony, and Frank – who find themselves enamoured of Phyllis, the fair maid, and vie for her affections. Phyllis, however, is determined to win the favour of the Cripple of Fanchurch despite his indifference towards her. The play is set in Elizabethan London. The play is a city comedy,
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Palace lantern


in China 2010 Shanghai World Expo. the Lantern is a full-bodied gilt setting maid who were holding the lamps, with an elegance expression. The body height of 48 cm, 15.85 kg. Gilt Bronze Human-Shaped Lamp was designed skillfully. on the on hand, the maid hand the lamp, on the other hand her sleeve seemed to prohibit form the wind. Actually, it is for the tubes to absorb smoke and avoid the air pollution. This Palace lantern got its name, because it has been placed
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Hattie McDaniel


as "Hi-Hat Hattie", a bossy maid who often "forgets her place". Her show became popular, but her salary was so low that she had to continue working as a maid. She made her first film appearance in "The Golden West" (1932), in which she played a maid. Her second appearance came in the highly successful Mae West film "I'm No Angel" (1933), in which she played one of the black maids with whom West camped it up backstage
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Gone with the Wind (film)


Olivia de Havilland, who played Melanie Wilkes; and Mickey Kuhn, who played her son, Beau. Before publication of the novel, several Hollywood executives and studios declined to create a film based on it, including Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Pandro Berman at RKO Pictures, and David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures. Jack L. Warner liked the story, but Warner Bros.'s biggest star Bette Davis was uninterested, and Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox did not
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Dark Victory


"Steel Magnolias," by Clairee in Act Two, Scene 1. It is also mentioned in the 2015 movie "The Frontier" by the Luann character as a missed opportunity in her career. Bette Davis was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress but lost to Vivien Leigh, star of "Gone with the Wind". Max Steiner, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for both this and "Gone with the Wind", lost to Herbert Stothart for "The Wizard of Oz"
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Cumulative tale


is more powerful still. Finally he confronts Nimrod with the observation that "man can stand up against the wind or shield himself behind the walls of his house" (Genesis Rabba xxxviii). There is a similar tale, The Mouse Turned into a Maid, in the Panchatantra, in which the mouse-maid is successively introduced to the sun, the cloud, the wind and the mountain. She prefers each in turn as stronger than the last, but finally a mouse is found to be stronger than even the mountain
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Barbara Stanwyck


(1948). She also played a doomed concert pianist in "The Other Love" (1947). The piano music was played by Ania Dorfmann, who drilled Stanwyck for three hours a day until she was able to move her arms and hands to match the music. Stanwyck was reportedly one of the many actresses considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939), although she did not receive a screen test. In 1944, she was the highest-paid woman in the
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List of Devious Maids characters


maid Flora Hernandez is brutally murdered and he winds up framed for the crime, being in possession of the knife used to stab the maid. His mother Marisol takes a job as a maid in order to unveil the true culprit. In "Setting the Table", it's established that Eddie was adopted after Marisol learned she was unable to conceive children, as well as the fact that Eddie had a romantic relationship with Flora. After learning that Flora was pregnant with another man's baby, Eddie's lawyer Ida Hayes meets
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Marie Currie


Marie Michelle Currie (born November 30, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and artist. Currie is best known for playing in a band with her identical twin Cherie Currie called Cherie & Marie Currie. Their song "Since You Been Gone" charted at number 95 on the US charts. Marie played Singing Maid Marie in "The Rosebud Beach Hotel" and is now a popular multi-media sculptress and artist. Currie was born to Don Currie and actress Marie Harmon. She was raised in Encino
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Collins & Harlan


"Trouble" "What Would the Neighbors Say?", "Barney", "Under the Anheuser Bush", "Goodbye, Fedora", "Possum Pie", "Down on the Brandywine", "Gone, Gone, Gone", "Village Maid", "Heinie" "Tammany", "Leader of the German Band", "Mule Song", "Down Where the Sweet Potatoes Grow", "Coax Me", "Oh, Oh, Sallie", "Jaspar, Do
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


holders, "The Winds of Tara" by Katherine Pinotti, was blocked from publication in the United States. The novel was republished in Australia, avoiding U.S. copyright restrictions. Away from copyright lawsuits, Internet fan fiction has proved to be a fertile medium for sequels (some of them book-length), parodies, and rewritings of "Gone with the Wind." Numerous unauthorized sequels to "Gone with the Wind" have been published in Russia, mostly under the pseudonym Yuliya Hilpatrik, a cover for a consortium of
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George Beattie (poet)


the wife of the Rev. W. R. Thomson of Balfour. "Farewell Sonnet" "FAREWELL, maid, thy love has vanish’d, Gone off like the morning dew; Farewell, maid, my peace is banish’d, Adieu! a sad, a long adieu! Weary world, I now must leave thee; Sun and moon, a long farewell; Farewell, maid, no more I’ll grieve thee, Soon you’ll hear my funeral knell. Soon the lips that oft have kiss’d thee, Mouldering in the dust will
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Norma Shearer


of more than 130 speaking roles. Shearer was also one of the many actresses considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With The Wind" (1939). However, she expressed no interest, joking, "Scarlett is a thankless role. The one I'd really like to play is Rhett!". Critics praised the suspenseful atmosphere in her next film, "Escape" (1940), where she played the lover of a Nazi general who helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp.
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Robert O'Hara


as it intercuts between two alternate stories throughout the play: one which takes place in Atlanta in 1939, the other in Germany in 1936. The Atlanta plot-line centers on a young Jewish couple living in the South who dress up in Civil War era attire to attend the premiere of "Gone with the Wind". In Berlin, a Third Reich officer at a Nazi death camp is in love with his prisoner, a black, male cabaret performer, yet still allows him to be tortured. The play premiered at
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J. M. Kerrigan


minor roles was in "Gone with the Wind" (1939), in which he played John Gallegher, the seemly jovial mill owner who whips his convict labour in to "co-operation". He appeared in Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954), the famous film version of Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" in a minor role at the beginning of the film. In 1946, he tried breaking into Broadway shows, playing the discombobulated leprechaun Jackeen J. O'Malley
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


, Who Shouldn't, and Why", says it is, "one of the more charitable passages in "Gone With the Wind", Margaret Mitchell hesitated to blame black 'insolence' during Reconstruction solely on 'mean niggers', of which, she said, there were few even in slavery days." Critics say that Mitchell downplayed the violent role of the Ku Klux Klan and their abuse of freedmen. Author Pat Conroy, in his preface to a later edition of the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of
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101 Ways to Leave a Game Show


" chosen among "Star Wars", "Titanic", "Avatar" and "Gone with the Wind".) The three incorrect answer choosers are dropped into the water, and the person who remains (choosing "Gone with the Wind") won the US $50,000 grand prize. Each episode features a different way in which the contestants fall into the water (apart from the first episode and the last episode where the way of falling is the same). Please note that although the title suggests there are
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September 1913


pray and save; Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind, The names that stilled your childish play, They have gone about the world like wind, But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman's rope was spun, And what, God help us, could they save? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Was it for this the wild geese spread The grey wing upon every tide
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Devious Maids


Devious Maids is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry, produced by ABC Studios, and executive produced by Cherry, Sabrina Wind, Eva Longoria, Paul McGuigan, Larry Shuman, David Lonner, John Mass, Paul Presburger, and Michael Garcia. It originally aired on Lifetime for four seasons from June 23, 2013 to August 8, 2016. Set in Beverly Hills, California, "Devious Maids" followed the lives of four Latina maids working for the area's wealthiest and most powerful families
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List of Devious Maids characters


has a particular interest in bondage, whereas Evelyn decides she wants to sell their home when the severed leg of tennis pro Louie Becker winds up in their yard. Adrian fails to get Evelyn into his new found S&M lifestyle, and instead blackmails new maid Carmen Luna into joining him. She goes to Evelyn about this though, and it's put to a stop, while Evelyn has decided she desires the love of a child. She decides to foster a son by the name of Deion, who Adrian initially hated, but
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Oscar Polk


Oscar Polk (December 25, 1899 – January 4, 1949) was an American actor, best known for his portrayal as the servant "Pork" in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind". His most memorable scene in that film comes when "Pork" discloses to Scarlett O'Hara, portrayed by Vivien Leigh, the back property taxes on Tara, are $300. He was married to Ivy V. Polk (née Ivy Parsons), who also had an uncredited role in "Gone with the Wind".
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea". This historical novel features a "Bildungsroman" or coming-
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


The Atlanta Journal". Fictional hero Rhett Butler has a "swarthy face, flashing teeth and dark alert eyes". He is a "scamp, blackguard, without scruple or honor." If "Gone with the Wind" has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through
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Parody


at which parody takes aim." In 2001, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in "Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin", upheld the right of Alice Randall to publish a parody of "Gone with the Wind" called "The Wind Done Gone", which told the same story from the point of view of Scarlett O'Hara's slaves, who were glad to be rid of her. In 2007, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a fair use defense in the "Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. Penguin Books" case
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Gone with the Wind (film)


her brother, Stephens Mitchell (who assumed control of her estate), authorized a sequel to be jointly produced by MGM and Universal Studios on a budget of $12 million. Anne Edwards was commissioned to write the sequel as a novel which would then be adapted into a screenplay, and published in conjunction with the film's release. Edwards submitted a 775-page manuscript entitled "Tara, The Continuation of Gone with the Wind", set between 1872 and 1882 focusing on Scarlett's divorce from Rhett; MGM was not satisfied with
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Pareto principle


support both stop-and-frisk policies and broken windows policing, as catching those criminals committing minor crimes will supposedly net many criminals wanted for (or who would normally commit) larger ones. Many video rental shops reported in 1988 that 80% of revenue came from 20% of videotapes. A video-chain executive discussed the ""Gone with the Wind" syndrome", however, in which every store had to offer classics like "Gone with the Wind", "Casablanca", or "The African Queen
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Latinos Beyond Reel


antagonists in films and television shows, and women often play the role of a maid. One actress Lube Ontiveros, who was discussed in the film, has been quoted in previous articles saying she has played the role of a maid more than 150 times. Lube Ontivernos' experience as playing a maid more than 150 times puts the Latino underrepresentation into perspective. At one point in the film, actor Yancey Arias talks about how what is written specifically in the script will stay in the film no matter how much an actor wants
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The Maid of Arran


: A Tuft of the Old Irish Bog" and "A Pair o' Blue Eyes". Baum's aunt, Katharine Gray, who ran the Syracuse Oratory School, played Harriet Holcomb (Black's Caroline Lavender), and played a smaller role created by Baum, The Prophetess, under the name "Kate Roberts". Her maid, Gray (Black's Mrs. Paterson) was played by Cordie Aiken. John L. Morgan played Captain John Ingram, a moustache-twirling villain inspired by Black's Edward Ingram, who
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Lee Patrick (actress)


films. Patrick only acted in three plays in 1927: the very brief 12-performance comedy "Baby Mine" which brought her together with Humphrey Bogart for the first time; the equally brief "The Matrimonial Bed"; and "Nightstick", an 84-performance run through January 1928 that also featured Thomas Mitchell who would go on to win an Academy Award for his performance in "Gone with the Wind". The 24-performance run of "The Common Sin" was the only other play she did in 1928. The Ring Lardner and
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Robert Elliott (actor, born 1879)


, Elliott played Detective Crosby in the 1928 feature "Lights of New York", the first all-talking sound film. One of his most notable roles was that of a Yankee officer playing cards with Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in the film "Gone With the Wind". The officer says of Rhett, "It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly." Robert Elliott was married to Ruth Thorp (1889–1971) from 1920 until his death in 1951, aged 72, in
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Drama (graphic novel)


white supremacist and racist overtones. For example, Abate points out that West Redding, who bears a striking resemblance to Ashley Wilkes from the movie "Gone with the Wind", is the only character in the book whose eye color is depicted. With his blue eyes, blond hair, and role as the male lead for the play "Moon Over Mississippi," West seems to symbolize "white racial purity." Another aspect that Abate finds troubling is the similarity between Justin performing a dance routine in the school play and
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Cinemagundi Club


artists who were not being given proper credit for the important creative contributions they made to the art of filmmaking. That attitude dramatically changed in 1939 with Gone With the Wind, when producer David O. Selznick agreed to give the new credit of “Production Designer” to William Cameron Menzies for his brilliant work on the classic film. Menzies (the dean of U.S. film art direction at the time) produced scene-by-scene storyboards and illustrations for Gone With the Wind that revolutionized the film industry. They demonstrated the vital role
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


has been criticized for promoting plantation values. Mitchell biographer Marianne Walker, author of "Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind", believes that those who attack the book on these grounds have not read it. She said that the popular 1939 film "promotes a false notion of the Old South". Mitchell was not involved in the screenplay or film production. James Loewen, author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong", says this novel
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


following among women, those aged 44 or more, both Southerners and Midwesterners, both whites and Hispanics, and those who have not attended college. In a 2014 Harris poll, Mitchell's novel ranked again as second, after the Bible. The novel is on the list of best-selling books. As of 2010, more than 30 million copies have been printed in the United States and abroad. More than 24 editions of "Gone with the Wind" have been issued in China. "TIME" magazine critics,
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


her novel was given to the Atlanta Public Library after her death. On August 16, 2012, the Archdiocese of Atlanta announced that it had been bequeathed a 50% stake in the trademarks and literary rights to "Gone With the Wind" from the estate of Margaret Mitchell's deceased nephew, Joseph Mitchell. Margaret Mitchell had separated from the Catholic Church. However, one of Mitchell's biographers, Darden Asbury Pyron, stated that Margaret Mitchell had "an intense relationship" with her mother, who was a Roman Catholic.
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Gone with the Wind in the Vatican


the book are given pseudonyms from Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" (1936). However, some of them have been identified, among them Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Martinelli's former supervisor. One anecdote in the book details a bishop being blackmailed by an illegitimate daughter. The book also raises questions about the death of Pope John Paul I. Another anecdote details an affair between a young priest at the nunciature in Bern, Switzerland and a nun, who are both reassigned – the nun significantly less gainfully – with the
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Gone with the Wind (film)


". More than any film since "The Birth of a Nation", it unleashed a variety of social forces that foreshadowed an alliance of white liberals and blacks who encouraged the expectation that blacks would one day achieve equality. According to Cripps, the film eventually became a template for measuring social change. In 2017, "Gone with the Wind" was pulled from the schedule at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee, after a 34-year run of annual showings due to its perceived racially insensitive content. One of the most
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Wesley Prince


participated in recordings by Louis Armstrong (1936) and King Perry (1946). Under his own name, he played on several tracks for Excelsior Records. He participated in 29 recording sessions from 1936 to 1946. For Nat Cole in 1940, he wrote the song "Gone with the Draft" (the title is a play on the popular Hollywood film Gone with the Wind as well as an allusion to the fact that Cole escaped military service because of his flat feet). In August 1942, Prince was drafted for
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The Maids


1994 for a chamber opera. Genet loosely based his play on the infamous sisters Christine and Léa Papin, who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933. In an introduction written for "The Maids", Jean-Paul Sartre quotes a line from Genet's novel "Our Lady of the Flowers" in which a character muses that if he had a play written for women he'd cast adolescent boys in the parts. Sartre then speculates on having this idea applied to "The Maids
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Flip Wilson


such as "Here's Lucy" (in which he played the role of "Prissy" in a spoof of "Gone with the Wind", with Lucille Ball as Scarlett), and "The Dean Martin Show", among others. Wilson's warm and ebullient personality was infectious. Richard Pryor told Wilson, "You're the only performer that I've ever seen who goes on the stage and the audience hopes that "you" like "them"." A routine titled "Columbus", from the
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Alice Randall


sued in April 2001 by Mitchell's estate on the grounds that "The Wind Done Gone" infringed the copyright of "Gone with the Wind". The lawsuit was eventually settled, allowing "The Wind Done Gone" to be published with the addition of a label describing it as "An Unauthorized Parody". In addition, Houghton Mifflin agreed to make a financial contribution to the Morehouse College, a historically black education institution in Atlanta supported by the Mitchell estate. The novel became a "New York Times" bestseller.
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List of Devious Maids characters


already written. Valentina ends up finding out the truth though, and leaves for Africa without telling her mother. Meanwhile, Genevieve gets back together with her ex-husband, Philippe Delatour, something that goes unblessed by Zoila. The maid winds up taking part in unmasking him as having killed Flora Hernandez. By the second season, three months have passed, and Zoila struggles to get in touch with Valentina. She soon returns from Africa though, having broken things off with Remi, and the two wind up making amends as
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


" of 1852) from the mid-19th century, culminating in "Gone With the Wind", is written from the perspective and values of the slaveholder and tends to present slaves as docile and happy. The characters in the novel are organized into two basic groups along class lines: the white planter class, such as Scarlett and Ashley, and the black house servant class. The slaves depicted in "Gone with the Wind" are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork, Prissy, and Uncle Peter. House
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Vanessa Place


The victims, the perps, and the survivors — they are over there, in more ways than one.” Gone with the Wind Place also received criticism for a Twitter art project where she retyped the entire text from the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind" in an effort to call attention to the novel's inherent racism, as part of a larger project, Gone with the Wind by Vanessa Place, designed to implicate questions of copyright, the ownership of cultural fictions, the ongoing nature of the white imaginary,
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Sandvikens Ungdomskorps


Sandvikens Ungdomskorps is an "elite division" amateur wind band in Bergen, Norway. The band was constituted July 1, 1923 by a group of boys to old to play in the school band in Sandviken, Bergen. The school band is now gone, but Sandvikens Ungdomskorps has grown to be one of the leading wind bands in Norway. The band is a member of Norges Musikkorps Forbund (the Norwegian band association, ), and participates each year in the for wind bands in Trondheim. In 2011 the band won gold
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


took a job writing feature articles for the "Atlanta Journal" at a time when Atlanta debutantes of her class did not work. After divorcing her first husband, she married again, this time to a man who shared her interest in writing and literature. He had also been best man at her first wedding. Margaret Mitchell began writing "Gone with the Wind" in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from a slow-healing auto-crash injury. In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor looking
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Gone with the Wind (film)


Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage
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Driving Miss Daisy (play)


in Atlanta during the 1960s, had to give up driving after a car accident, and hired Coleman, who drove her for 25 years. Uhry wrote his "Atlanta Trilogy" based on his own experiences living in Atlanta as a Jew. He set his three plays at "historic moments in the city’s twentieth century—the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, the 1939 "Gone With the Wind" premiere, the 1958 Temple bombing, and the city’s 1964 dinner honoring Martin Luther King’s Nobel Peace Prize."
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Jim Fields


produced and directed "Little Red" in Omaha. The success of his first play led Fields to write, produce and direct "Scarlett Fever", a dramatic play about a 76-year-old woman who wakes up one day and believes she is Scarlett O'Hara from "Gone with the Wind". The success of "Scarlett Fever" led Fields to acquire his first digital video equipment which he used to produce and direct his first feature film: "Plain Living". In 2001 Fields found himself swept up in a brewing
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Maid Marian


Marian of the May games or of Monday's play, may derive all her roots from her association with the historical Robert Hood of Wakefield. In an Elizabethan play, Anthony Munday identified Maid Marian with the historical Matilda, daughter of Robert Fitzwater, who had to flee England because of an attempt to assassinate King John (legendarily attributed to King John's attempts to seduce Matilda). In later versions of Robin Hood, Maid Marian is commonly named as "Marian Fitzwater", only child of the Earl of Huntingdon, is
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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside


A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a city comedy written c. 1613 by English Renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton. Unpublished until 1630 and long-neglected afterwards, it is now considered among the best and most characteristic Jacobean comedies. The play was originally staged by the Lady Elizabeth's Men. The 1630 quarto was published by the bookseller Francis Constable. The play presents multiple plots centered on the marriage of Moll Yellowhammer, the titular maid, who is daughter to a wealthy Cheapside goldsmith, and, in particular, her intended husband, Sir
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Arthur Rankin Jr.


New York City, the son of actors Arthur Rankin and Marian Mansfield. His paternal grandmother was actress Phyllis Rankin, and his paternal step-grandfather, who adopted his father, was actor Harry Davenport, who played Dr. Meade in the film "Gone with the Wind". Rankin began his career as an art director for the American Broadcasting Company in the 1940s. In 1955, he and Jules Bass formed the production company Videocraft International to produce television commercials. In 1960, they moved into the area of animation, and
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Alicia Rhett


Mary Alicia Rhett (February 1, 1915 – January 3, 2014) was an American actress and portrait painter who is best remembered for her role as India Wilkes in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind". At the time of her death, Rhett was one of the oldest surviving credited cast members of the movie, the only others being Olivia de Havilland (born July 1, 1916), who played India's sister-in-law Melanie Wilkes, Mary Anderson (born April 3, 1918; died
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History of film


American cinema reached its peak of efficiently manufactured glamour and global appeal during this period. The top actors of the era are now thought of as the classic film stars, such as [[Clark Gable]], [[Katharine Hepburn]], [[Humphrey Bogart]], [[Greta Garbo]], and the greatest box office draw of the 1930s, child performer [[Shirley Temple]]. [[File:Poster - Gone With the Wind 01.jpg|thumb|upright=1|right|[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]|alt
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Gone with the Wind (song)


"Gone with the Wind" is a popular song. The music was written by Allie Wrubel, the lyrics by Herb Magidson. The song was published in 1937. A version recorded by Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers was a No. 1 song in 1937. Whether the title of this song was related in any way to the 1936 Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone with the Wind" is difficult to determine. The timing of the song's release suggests something more than coincidence, given that the book received enormous publicity in 1937
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Gone with the Wind (novel)


Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, included the novel on their list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present (2005). In 2003 the book was listed at number 21 on the BBC's "The Big Read" poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." "Gone with the Wind" has been adapted several times for stage and screen: "Gone with the Wind" has appeared in many places and forms in popular culture: On June 30, 1986, the 50th
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Gone with the Wind (film)


Klux Klan during Reconstruction, and as a "social propaganda" film offering a "white supremacist" view of the past. From 1972 to 1996, the Atlanta Historical Society held a number of "Gone with the Wind" exhibits, among them a 1994 exhibit titled, "Disputed Territories: "Gone with the Wind" and Southern Myths". One of the questions explored by the exhibit was "How True to Life Were the Slaves in GWTW?" This section showed slave experiences were diverse and concluded that the "
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Valerie Belgrave


of the university in protest against a professor who was accused of racism; the incident, which became the subject of a documentary called "The Ninth Floor", is believed to have helped spark the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Trinidad. Her writings included the novels "Ti Marie" (published in 1988, and described as "a Caribbean "Gone with the Wind") and "Dance the Water" (2002), a play entitled "Night of the Wolf" (1991), and the 2007 children's
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Christopher Plummer


young writer in "Stage Struck". That same year, Plummer played the lead in Nicholas Ray's film "Wind Across the Everglades". He did not appear on screen again for six years, until he played the Emperor Commodus in Anthony Mann's epic "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964). His next film, the Oscar-winning "The Sound of Music", made cinematic history, becoming the all-time top-grossing film, eclipsing "Gone with the Wind". He
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La Cérémonie


La Cérémonie is a 1995 film by Claude Chabrol, adapted from the novel "A Judgement in Stone" by Ruth Rendell. The film echoes the case of Christine and Lea Papin, two French maids who brutally murdered their employer's wife and daughter in 1933, as well as the 1947 play they inspired, "The Maids" by Jean Genet. "La Cérémonie" tells the story of a young woman, Sophie Bonhomme (Sandrine Bonnaire), who is hired as a maid by the Lelièvre family. The Lelièvres live
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The Caretaker (Doctor Who)


maid knock-off and a Roomba gone haywire." Overall, he gave the episode 7.9 out of 10 (Good), saying "'The Caretaker' was emotionally engaging with dynamic dialogue," and called it a ""Who" win." Neela Debnath of "The Independent" gave the episode a negative review, calling it "A bland Earth-based adventure that failed to excite." However she did praise Ellis George, calling her "a star in the making," and her inclusion in
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Triple Trouble (1918 film)


her freshly cleaned floor. He takes the trash can and dumps it over the fence, inundating the Count in the process. Back in the kitchen, the maid scolds Charlie, but then becomes emotional, and he comforts her. The Count enters the house, and is hit by a wet rag thrown by the maid, but intended for Charlie. The Count tosses it off to the side, and it winds up hitting the cook, and when the cook begins to act cruelly towards the maid in return, Charlie sticks
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