Gone With The Wind

We pass this house often, coincidentally every time we do we always say this house reminds us of the movie "Gone with the wind" with it's palatial appearance, almost as palatial as the house on the Tara plantation in the movie.


For the 1939 motion picture, the home was constructed by art director Lyle Wheeler. After filming concluded, the façade of Tara sat on the Forty Acres backlot owned by RKO Pictures and then Desilu Productions. In 1959, Southern Attractions, Inc. purchased the façade, which was dismantled and shipped to Georgia with plans to relocate it to the Atlanta area as a tourist attraction.
Producer David O. Selznick commented at the time, "Nothing in Hollywood is permanent".
Once photographed, life here is ended. It is almost symbolic of Hollywood. Tara had no rooms inside. It was just a façade. So much of Hollywood is a façade.
I just learnt that the wonderful staircase wasn't real!!
"Quite frankly my dear I don't give a dam!"

It was a great movie, at the 12th Academy Awards held in 1940, it received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary)