Today in 1939, in Atlanta, Georgia

Less than 75 years after General Sherman and his Union Army captured and then sacked the city, the epic film "Gone with the Wind," based on Margaret Mitchell's popular novel of the same name, premiered to rave reviews.

With immortal lines like "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" and memorable characters like Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, the film, actors Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh and the fictional plantation Tara became an important part of American filmography. 

[December 15, 1939]