DAVID O. SELZNICK and GONE WITH THE WIND

 

 


STORY: Letter to Sidney Howard, 1/6/37; Memo to George Cukor et.al., 1/7/39

 

CAST ISSUES: Leslie Howard; Gable’s clothes, 4/17/39; onscreen credits, 10/7/39

 

THE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE: Memos, 11/39

 

PUBLICITY: Memo to MGM, 5/2/39; Unsentroadshow” memo to MGM, 10/20/39

 

THE JEZEBEL PROBLEM: Correspondence with Warner Brothers, 12/1/37 & 3/8/38

                                                                              

“FRANKLY, MY DEAR…”: Unsent memo to Katherine Brown, 9/20/39; Letter to Will Hays, 10/20/39

 

 

Correspondence and GWTW photos reproduced from Memo from David O. Selznick, selected and edited by Rudy Behlmer (New York: Viking, 1972. (Howard, pp. 144-49; Cukor, pp. 184-86; Howard, pp. 149, 152-53, 208; clothes, p. 203; credits, pp. 214-16; theatrical, pp. 230, 231-32; MGM, pp. 203-5; roadshow, pp. 223-27; Jezebel, pp. 153-54, 156-57; “Frankly,” pp. 212-14, 221-23.)  PDF link to all memos here