Tuesday, November 12, 2019

After all, tomorrow is another day!

If you liked the movie "Gone With The Wind," you might remember Tara.

If you never sat through the movie, well, Tara is not a person, but, rather, a mansion, a plantation, a big ole Southern house where some of the most overwrought acting ever took place.

They built the mansion to make the movie in 1939 at the Selznick International Studios production lot in Culver City, California, and there it stood for 20 years until it was torn down by...wait for it...Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, whose Desilu Productions company bought the Selznick lot.

At first, someone planned to reconstruct the mansion in Northern Georgia, but that fell through, and the pieces of the mansion have been in storage for decades.

Now, the Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum has paid $35,000 for shutters and window frames filmed in the movie.


Visitors to the museum, located at historic Brumby Hall, a pre-Civil War home built in 1851 in Marietta GA, will see shutters and window frames from the front of the house and its left wing. This will include gigantic tall windows and shutters to the right of the front door where Scarlett is first seen at Tara conversing with the Tarleton twins.

Oh, those Tarleton twins. The guy who played Stuart Tarleton was George Reeves, who went on to play Superman on TV and then committed suicide by handgun, which confused the devil out of 8-year-old me.

And if you remember the scene where Scarlett O'Hara yanks (poor choice of words for a Southern scene) down some the drapes to make herself a fine dress dress, well sir, that window frame is also included.

The American Civil War ran from 1861 - 1865. "Gone With The Wind" ran 3 hours and 58 minutes, but it seemed longer than the war itself.


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