William J. Folsom Gone With the Wind Premiere Film, 1939.

ArchivalResource

William J. Folsom Gone With the Wind Premiere Film, 1939.

The collection, in its original format, is a single reel of 16mm black and white acetate film shot by William J. Folsom during the premiere events for Gone With the Wind. The majority of the film was shot at a ball hosted by the Atlanta Junior League at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in downtown Atlanta. There are many close-up shots of principal actors from the film including Olivia De Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Ona Munson, and Laura Hope Crews. The director, David O. Selznick, is pictured along with Carole Lombard, wife of Clark Gable, and Laurence Olivier, companion of Vivien Leigh. There is also a brief shot of the Twelve Oaks facade built for Loew's Grand Theatre and the painting of Scarlett in the blue dress.

1 film reel (4 min.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

De Havilland, Olivia, 1916-2020

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b67bpr (person)

Olivia Mary de Havilland (b. July 1, 1916, Tokyo, Japan-died July 26, 2020, Paris, France), British-born American actress. Her major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. At the time of her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her yo...

Gable, Clark, 1901-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60d5m8w (person)

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960), more commonly known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He had roles in more than 60 motion pictures in multiple genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man. Gable died of a heart attack; his final on-screen appearance was of an aging cowboy in The Misfits, released posthumously in 1961. Born and raised in Ohio, Gable traveled to Hollyw...

Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr3rt5 (person)

English actress. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Denys [Blakelock], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871310 Actress Vivien Leigh was born in Darjeeling, India, and returned to England with her parents after World War I. While attending a convent school, her mother took her to see a play, where she determined to become an actress. She had little experience before creating a sensation in the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the movie Gone With t...

Junior League of Atlanta

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w686770x (corporateBody)

Folsom, William H. C. (William Henry Carman), 1817-1900

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj280j (person)

The film Gone With the Wind, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh), premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939. From the description of William J. Folsom Gone With the Wind Premiere Film, 1939. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 714159065 The film Gone With the Wind, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh), premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939. Biographical information regarding William J. Folsom has not been determined. ...

Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69h69rn (person)

Margaret Mitchell (b. November 8, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia-d. August 16, 1949, Atlanta, Georgia), the daughter of Eugene M. Mitchell, was a prominent attorney. Her mother, Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, was active in the women's suffrage movement. Margaret Mitchell attended Atlanta public schools, graduated from Washington Seminary in Atlanta, and attended Smith College for one year before leaving college upon the death of her mother. She married John Marsh on July 4, 1925. Her only novel, Gone With ...

Lombard, Carole, 1908-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g0tmz (person)

Selznick, David O., 1902-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xd11j9 (person)

Selznick was an American film producer. Chapman was an American playwright, theatrical consultant, professor of English literature, and Director of the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University. From the description of Letters to Robert Harris Chapman, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79662527 From the guide to the Letters to Robert Harris Chapman, 1956., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) The power companie...