February 26, 2016, Filed Under: FilmHattie McDaniel’s landmark Academy Awards win The 12th Academy Awards ceremony was held on February 29, 1940, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, with Bob Hope hosting. Gone With The Wind was nominated for 13 awards and won for
February 4, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingBiography sheds light on William Cameron Menzies, the first production designer While researching his recent book William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come, author James Curtis visited the Ransom Center to seek insight about Menzies’s career. Menzies worked with producer David O. Selznick on several projects, including Gone With The Wind and Spellbound. Using the Selznick collection at the… read more
December 8, 2015, Filed Under: FilmAnother view of Scarlett O’Hara Ten years after the release of Gone With the Wind, actress Vivien Leigh modeled real-life, historic nineteenth-century clothes for pioneer fashion historian and Byron scholar Doris Langley Moore for the publication The Woman in Fashion (1949).
