The clock was turned back in Atlanta, Georgia for the World Premiere of Gone with the Wind at the Loews Grand Theater on Peachtree Street. The beautiful theater was sadly destroyed by fire in 1978 but many folks still remember when Hollywood came to Atlanta to celebrate that wonderful movie and Atlanta's own author Margaret Mitchell whose book about Scarlett O'Hara, the Southern people and the War Between the States would be read by millions around the world and be made into an exciting motion picture that has become a great classic. Do you remember when a movie premiere was a red carpet affair of excitement when you could take your family to the picture show without worrying about the language or sexual content of the film? 'Gone with the Wind’ had its grand premiere during the Christmas Season of 1939, just 74 years after the end of the "War Between the States" and Sunday December 15, 2017 marks the 78th anniversary of that wonderful-classic movie that opens with:

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