Discover Yahoo! With Your Friends

Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control.

To get started, first

YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    Fire might have claimed 'Gone with the Wind' items

    STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) — Museum officials are waiting to see whether memorabilia from the classic film "Gone with the Wind" was ruined when a fire heavily damaged the facility near Atlanta where it was stored.

    Rebekah Cline with the Clayton County Convention and Visitors Bureau says the Road to Tara Museum in Henry County has a storage unit on the lower level of the facility, while the fire broke out on the upper level. But she says firefighters said all the units had sustained some degree of fire, smoke or water damage.

    Cline says the unit housed collectible posters from the 1939 premier and promotional paintings. But she says the museum's most valuable treasures are at the museum. They include costumes, a signed first-edition copy of the book and an original movie script.

     

    38 comments

    • catman2130093  •  3 months ago
      Why was this stuff not displayed at The Margaret Mitchell House-aka The Dump? it's in downtown Atlanta,has been restored,and is open to the public. (If you don't know Margaret wrote GTW, and the"Dump" is what she called the house she lived in while writing it).
      • nysro 3 months ago
        That house has been destroyed before as well. It's no safer in either place.
    • Regina  •  Glendale, California  •  3 months ago
      Gone With The Wind. Entrance music, intermission, exit music. I miss that style of movie making so much. I've watched it more than 20 times and I've only noticed one jump cut and two instances where the costume getting caught on an item in the scene was expertly handled by the brilliant actors.
    • Elikineer  •  3 months ago
      Why store such priceless artifacts in such a shoddy envirnment? Hopefully, the fire was not set intentionally!
    • kmm47  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 months ago
      Clark Gable's turning over in his grave.
      • Tommy Boy 3 months ago
        For more reasons than you know!
      • dennis 3 months ago
        Hope Drothy and Toddoe are ok???
    • D  •  3 months ago
      Well I won't think about that today. I'll think about that tomorrow."
    • t. k. Laurence  •  3 months ago
      Bummer, but, interesting that it burned in Atlanta, just like the city itself in the movie, hummm.............
      • Telstar62 3 months ago
        I guess that's what's called "irony".
    • D  •  3 months ago
      Loved the Carol Burnett spoof entitled "Went With the Wind:"
      Harvey Korman: "Scarlett, that dress - it's gorgeous!"
      Carol Burnett: "Thank ye, I saw it in the windah and I jest had to have it!"
    • Brian Ciesil  •  McHenry, Illinois  •  3 months ago
      Oh the Irony...
    • J.  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
      Up in smoke and (you guessed it) gone with the wind.
    • William  •  Richardson, Texas  •  3 months ago
      Gone With the Wind is now Gone With the Fire.
    • Guy  •  3 months ago
      How fitting.
    • na na na na  •  3 months ago
      I thought it burned up in the movie...
    • javan p  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  3 months ago
      Well, that's ironic.
    • Shalt  •  Studio City, California  •  3 months ago
      Gone, with the Wind
    • bill  •  3 months ago
      frankly my dear, I don't give a #$%$
    • Joaquin Closet  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
      Well, here in Los Angeles, the building that was used as the facade for "Terra" is still around, right next to what was once MGM studios, but is now SONY studios in Culver City. Strange that the actual location where the filming of the burning of Atlanta took place is still with us.
    • joeG  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      Frankly, my dear................
    • rustybucket55  •  Warren, Ohio  •  3 months ago
      I hope R E Lee's pic was there too.
    • blah  •  3 months ago
      That's why you don't store everything in one place, like when the Uffizi museum in italy was flooded and thousands of hundred year old books and paintings were destroyed.
    • Jack  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      It was a great movie which was superbly cast. That year Thomas Mitchell appeared in "Gone With the Wind," "Stagecoach." "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and "Only Angels Have Wings." As well casted as the movie was the book was much better binding itself as all good stories do to the inner recesses of the mind. It will live within me forever.

    News for You

    • ‘The Great Gatsby’ trailer has not-so-great typo

      Movie Talk - Thu, May 24, 2012 3:08 PM EDT

      Sometimes spell-checker just isn't enough, old sport. In the new trailer for Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," there's a pretty epic typo. A quick shot of Times Square in New York reveals a billboard for the Broadway review of "Zeigfeld … Continue reading →

    • ‘Star Wars’: Its modest opening day 35 years ago

      Movie Talk - 1 hour 51 minutes ago

      Thirty-five years ago, Hollywood changed forever. "Star Wars" hit cinemas on May 25, 1977. But, while the film went on to be one of the biggest blockbusters of all time and launched sequels, prequels, TV shows, action figures, LEGO sets, … Continue reading →

    • Catwoman leaps out in new ‘Dark Knight Rises’ TV spots

      Movie Talk - Thu, May 24, 2012 1:02 PM EDT

      Two new television spots for "The Dark Knight Rises" have been released and one of them (above) accentuates Catwoman's role. Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) takes off with Bruce Wayne's car, much to his surprise, speeding away while wearing a self-pleased smirk. … Continue reading →