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
Oh, My Dear! trifle stale, and so it happens that "Oh, My Dear!" lacks some of the freshness and sparkle of "Oh, Boy!" and "Oh, Lady! Lady!!" Guy Bolton's book is rather more frankly than usual of the scrap variety; P. G. Wodehouse's rhymes are not so startlingly felicitous; and Louis A. Hirsch's music, though pleasant to take, has a somewhat familiar flavor. The story concerns the stock mild-and middle - aged married man who hasn't kicked over the traces since he sneaked off "to a Burton Holmes Travelogue in 1916," and who gets himself into the stock complications by inducing someone to