Gone with the Wind (film) time on the night of December 10, 1938, when the burning of Atlanta was filmed. In a letter to his wife two days later, Selznick admitted that Leigh was "the Scarlett dark horse", and after a series of screen tests, her casting was announced on January 13, 1939. Just before the shooting of the film, Selznick informed newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan: "Scarlett O'Hara's parents were French and Irish. Identically, Miss Leigh's parents are French and Irish." Of original screenplay writer Sidney Howard, film historian Joanne Yeck writes, "reducing the intricacies of "Gone with the Wind"'s epic dimensions was a herculean
Went with the Wind! Went with the Wind! "Went with the Wind!" is a comedy sketch featured on the eighth episode of the tenth season of "The Carol Burnett Show". It originally aired in the United States on CBS on November 13, 1976, and is a parody of the 1939 American historical drama film "Gone with the Wind". The sketch was written by two young writers, Rick Hawkins and Liz Sage. In 2009, "TV Guide" ranked the sketch #53 on its list of "Top 100 Episodes of All Time". Carol Burnett introduces the sketch saying: "Recently, nearly the entire nation spent a total of