The similarities were not lost on Selznick, who, per Making of a Legend, wrote to Jack Warner, expressing his upset with the production’s undeniable capitalization on the Gone with the Wind craze.

HBO Max initially took "Gone With the Wind" offline in response to a petition made by "12 Years A Slave" screenwriter John Ridley. The classic 1939 film has long been criticized for its somewhat ...

We had to haul all that out of there. It had been dumped on the Tara facade." Actress Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind,' directed by Victor Fleming, 1939.