Margaret Mitchell reading thousands of them? To aid her in her literary endeavors, John Marsh brought home a Remington Portable No. 3 typewriter (c. 1928). For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O'Hara (prior to "Gone with the Wind"'s publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett). She used parts of the manuscript to prop up a wobbly couch. During World War II, Margaret Mitchell was a volunteer for the American Red Cross and she raised money for the war effort by selling war bonds. She was active in Home Defense, sewed
Gable and Lombard plane crash while promoting the purchase of defense bonds during World War II. In his review in "The New York Times", Vincent Canby called the film Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" described the film as a "mushy, old-fashioned extravaganza" and added, "Variety" called it "Time Out London" says, "TV Guide" awarded it one out of a possible four stars, calling it Gable and Lombard Gable and Lombard is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The screenplay by Barry Sandler is based on the romance and consequent marriage of screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.