Margaret Mitchell wife, Margaret. Mitchell was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement in 1994 and into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000. Margaret Mitchell Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist who wrote under the name Peggy Mitchell. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, "Gone with the Wind", for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella
Midnight (1939 film) The film was remade as "Masquerade in Mexico" (1945) with Dorothy Lamour. In 2007, Universal Studios announced plans for a remake of "Midnight" to be shot in 2010, with Michael Arndt as writer and Reese Witherspoon in the lead role. Universal currently owns the rights to the original version. However, as of November 2011, the film has not gone into production. Midnight (1939 film) Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on