Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn "damn Yankees" is heard in the parlor scene at Twelve Oaks. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is a line from the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind" starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The line is spoken by Rhett Butler (Gable), as his last words to Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh), in response to her tearful question: "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" Scarlett clings to the hope that she can win him back. This line is also partially spoken by Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn silent era, John Gilbert even shouted "Goddamn you!" to the enemy during battle in "The Big Parade" (1925). The Production Code was ratified on March 31, 1930, and was effective for motion pictures whose filming began afterward. Thus, talkies that used "damn" include "Glorifying the American Girl" (1929), "Flight" (1929), "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929), "Hell's Angels" (1930), "The Big Trail" (1930), "The Dawn Patrol" (1930), "The Green Goddess" (1930) and "Dracula" (1931). Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for using the word "damn", in fact the MPPDA board passed an amendment to