25. MMD. JRM to his mother, 24 April 1937.
26. W. J. Stuckey, The Pulitzer Prize Novels: A Critical Backward Look (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966), 107.
27. Edward Wagenknecht, Cavalcade of the American Novel (New York, 1952), 424-26.
28. UGa. MM to HB, 9 May 1937.
29. MMD. MM to Dear Family, 21 June 1937.
30. UGa. MM to HB, 9 May 1937.
31. Interview with FM.
32. UGa. MM to President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, 8 May 1937.
33. UGa. MM to Hendrick Willem Van Loon, 5 May 1937.
34. NYPL. MM to GB, 10 May 1937.
35. Farr, 189. That capsule also contained magazines, newspapers, a World Almanac, newsreels of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Miami fashion show, copies of the Lord’s Prayer in 300 languages, and a variety of timely articles, including a telephone, a can opener, a lady’s hat, a wristwatch, a package of cigarettes, and a slide rule. The capsule is not to be opened until 6939.
36. Farr, 178.
37. MMD. MM to “Dear Family,” 21 June 1937.
38. UGa. MM to HB, 6 July 1937.
39. UGa. MM to HB, 11 June 1937.
40. Interview with JK.
41. UGa. MM’s letters to Edna Daniel.
42. UGa. MM to HB, 25 May 1938.
43. UGa. MM to Dr. Henry C. Link, 23 July 1941.
44. Keith Runyon, “Mr. Mitchell Remembers Margaret,” in “Gone With the Wind”as Book and Film. Ed. Richard Harwell (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983), 76-82.
45. Interview with FM.
46. MMD. JRM to his mother, 25 July 1937.
47. MMD. MM to Mother Marsh, 26 June 1933.
48. UGa. MM to HB, 9 Sept. 1937.
49. UGa. MM to Louie Morris, 24 May 1937.
50. NYPL. MM to GB, 2 March 1937.
51. UGa. MM to HB, 28 May 1937.
52. UGa. MM to Louis Davent Bolton, 22 July 1937.
53. UGa. MM to HB, 28 May 1937.
54. UGa. MM to LDC, 5 March 1937.
55. UGa. MM to HB, 28 May 1937.
56. UGa. Howard E. Rein-heimer to Mitchell & Mitchell, Esqs., 28 July 1937.
57. UGa. MM to GB, 24 Sept. 1937.
58. An expression John used in discussing with Henry his and Peggy’s first round of foreign copyright problems. Interview with MMD.
59. NYPL. SM to GB, 23 April 1937.
60. UGa. MM to Joseph Henry Jackson, 15 Feb. 1938.
61. MMD. JRM to his mother, 2 Sept. 1937.
62. MMD. JRM to his mother, 25 July 1937.
63. The background of this case had to do with the United States not seeing fit to join the international Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. In the late nineteenth century, a group of authors and artists started a movement securing an international union of nations that would protect authors’ rights. This movement resulted in what became known as the Berne Convention, because the countries convened at Berne (Bern), Switzerland, on 9 September 1886. The union was important because it was the first worldwide, multilateral copyright treaty in history and required a country entering into the agreement to give foreign authors the same kind of protection it gave its own authors. Only fourteen countries in 1886 chose to join the union; America and the Soviet Union did not choose to join. Because it was not a member, America could without risk of penalty have foreign books translated and published. But that also meant that American books were free in other countries; American authors were not protected in other countries. Mark Twain was only one author who suffered bitterly from having his works pirated. In order to be protected, American authors’ works had to be published simultaneously in the States and in some other country that was a member of the Berne Convention. As a result, many Americans were able to have their books published in Canada, which was a member. Nevertheless, publishers in many other countries were continuing the publication of American books without paying authors’ rights because they wanted to force America to join the Berne Convention.
64. Merle Curti, Richard H. Shryock, Thomas C. Cochran, and Fred H. Harrington, An American History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), 408-10.
65. UGa. JRM to Dr. Wallace McClure, Jan. 1939.
66. MMD. Newsclippings, 8 Dec. 1937, attached to JRM’s letter to his mother, 9 Dec. 1937.
67. UGa. MM to Willie Snow Ethridge, 10 March 1938.
68. UGa. Dr. Wallace McClure to SM, 16 Nov. 1937.
69. UGa. Box Number 156. Folder Heading 156.1. Residentiebode, The Hague, June 1, 1939.
70. UGa. MM to Dr. Wallace McClure, 9 Oct. 1939.
71. Farr, 234.
72. UGa. MM to HB, 25 May 1938.
73. UGa. MM to HB, 25 May 1938.
74. Farr, 189.
75. UGa. MM to HB, 25 May 1938.
76. UGa. MM to Charles Smith, 12 June 1937.
77. UGa. MM to Stark Young, 21 July 1938.
78. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 16 Mar. 1938.
79. Interview with MS.
80. Farr, 193.
81. MMD. JRM to his mother, 29 May 1938.
82. MMD. MM to Mother and Katharine, 21 June 1937.
83. UGa. MM to HB, 14 April 1938.
84. UGa. MM to HB, 14 April 1938.
85. MMD. JRM to his mother, 29 May 1938.
86. UGa. MM to HB, 3 May 1938.
87. UGa. MM to HB, 14 April 1938.
88. UGa. MM to HB, 14 April 1938.
89. UGa. MM to HB, 14 April 1938.
90. UGa. MM to HB, 6 May 1938.
91. UGa. MM to HB, 25 May 1938.
92. UGa. MM to HB, 25 May 1938.
93. UGa. MM to Helen Dowdey, 16 Sept. 1938.
94. UGa. MM to HB, 16 May 1938.
Chapter 13
Making the Movie
1. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 6 Oct. 1936.
2. Interview with MS.
3. Interview with FM.
4. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 13 July 1938.
5. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 13 July 1938.
6. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 13 July 1938.
7. FMZ. JRM to FMZ, 1 Aug. 1936.
8. Ronald Haver, David O. Selznick’s “Gone With the Wind” (New York: Bonanza, 1986), 9.
9. Haver, 9.
10. Haver, 11.
11. Haver, 28.
12. Haver, 4.
13. Judy Cameron and Paul J. Christman, The Art of “Gone with the Wind”: The Making of a Legend (New York: Prentice Hall, 1989), 37.
14. Haver, 4.
15. Haver, 4.
16. Cameron, 35.
17. Cameron, 35.
18. UGa. MM to Sidne yHoward, 21 Nov. 1936.
19. UGa. MM to Sidney Howard, 21 Nov. 1936.
20. UGa. MM to Sidney Howard, 21 Nov. 1936.
21. Interview with FM.
22. UGa. MM to Sidney Howard, 21 Nov. 1936.
23. UGa. MM to Sidney Howard, 21 Nov. 1936.
24. UGa. Sidney Howard to MM, 1 Dec. 1936.
25. Interview with MS.
26. UGa. Both drafts are in MMMP.
27. UGa. MM to Russell Birdwell, 21 Nov. 1936. This letter is signed by Peggy but a draft of the letter shows that John wrote it for her, as he wrote many other letters for her.
28. UGa. MM to Russell Birdwell, 5 Dec. 1936. Also signed by Peggy, but draft in John’s handwriting.
29. MMD. MM to Mother Marsh, 29 Nov. 1936.
30. Cameron, 225.
31. Haver, 5.
32. UGa. MM to Sidney Howard, 4 Jan. 1937.
33. JRM to Anne Bowden, n.d. [probably around early April 1937].
34. UGa. Atlanta Constitution, 7 April 1937.
35. FMZ. JRM to FMZ, n.d. The first two pages of this letter are missing, but the date is probably April 1937.
36. Finis Farr, Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta (New York: Morrow, 1965), 184-85.
37. Farr, 185.
38. MMD. JRM to his mother, 17 Jan. 1937.
39. UGa. MM to Leslie Howard, 3
0 Jan. 1939.
40. Richard Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1982), 10-11. UGa. MM to Wilbur Kurtz, 16 Dec. 1938.
41. Interview with FM.
42. Haver, 15.
43. Haver, 15.
44. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 9-10.
45. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 10.
46. UGa. MM to Sidney Howard, 8 Oct. 1937.
47. UGa. MM to Sidney Howard, 11 Oct. 1937.
48. UGa. MM to HB, 12 Aug. 1938.
49. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 74.
50. UGa. MM to HB, 4 Nov. 1937.
51. Farr, 187.
52. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 2.
53. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 13.
54. UGa. MM to HB, 12 Aug. 1938.
55. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 5.
56. UGa. MM to HB, 14 April 1938.
57. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 8 March 1937.
58. AHS. Wilbur G. Kurtz Papers. Also, Cameron, 114.
59. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 167.
60. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 16 March 1938.
61. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 16 March 1938.
62. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 16 March 1938.
63. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 8.
64. Cameron, 73.
65. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 14.
66. Cameron, 56-62.
67. Farr, 170-71.
68. Haver, 4.
69. Haver, 4.
70. Haver, 17.
71. Alexander Walker, Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987), 84-86.
72. Walker, 86.
73. Walker, 113.
74. AHC. Wilbur Kurtz’s Journal entry for 10 Dec. 1938. Also, Cameron, 64.
75. Haver, 24.
76. MMD. JRM to his mother, 31 Jan. 1939. John made his comment about Selznick’s publicity stunt to his family and to his colleagues at work in publicity.
77. Cameron, 37.
78. UGa. MM to David O. Selznick, 14 Jan. 1939.
79. UGa. MM to Vivien Leigh, 30 Jan. 1939.
80. UGa. MM to David O. Selznick, 30 Jan. 1939.
81. UGa. MM to Susan Myrick, 10 Feb. 1939.
82. UGa. MM to Helen and Clifford Dowdey, 22 Aug. 1938.
83. UGa. MM to Helen and Clifford Dowdey, 22 Aug. 1938.
84. UGa. MM to Helen and Clifford Dowdey, 22 Aug. 1938.
85. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 13 Aug. 1937.
86. UGa. MM to Dr. Mark Allen Patton, 11 July 1936.
87. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 88.
88. UGa. MM to Katharine Brown, 31 Jan. 1939.
89. Susan Myrick was born in Baldwin County, Georgia, 20 Feb. 1893; she died on 4 Sept. 1978 in Macon and was buried in Milledgeville, Georgia.
90. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 87.
91. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 126, 166.
92. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 128.
93. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 129.
94. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 20.
95. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 50.
96. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 88.
97. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 126.
98. Walker, Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh, 114.
99. UGa. MM to Susan Myrick, 10 Feb. 1939. Also Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 166-67.
100. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 167.
101. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 167.
102. UGa. MM to Susan Myrick, 10 Feb. 1939.
103. UGa. MM to Harry E. Ransford, 4 Jan 1937.
104. UGa. MM to Jere Moore, 16 Feb. 1939.
105. Cameron, 121.
106. UGa. MM to Annetta I. Clark, Smith College, 4 March 1939.
107. UGa. MM to Annetta I. Clark, Smith College, 4 March 1939.
108. MMD. JRM to his mother, 16 April 1939.
109. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 90.
110. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 88.
111. UGa. Susan Myrick to MM, 9 April 1939.
112. UGa. MM to Susan Myrick, 17 April 1939.
113. UGa. MM to Susan Myrick, 17 April 1939.
114. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 105-6.
115. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 166.
116. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 127.
117. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 128.
118. UGa. David O. Selznick to MM, 24 Jan. 1939.
119. UGa. MM to David O. Selznick, 30 Jan. 1939.
120. Haver, 11-12.
121. UGa. MM to Susan Myrick, 10 Feb. 1939.
122. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 14.
123. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 239. MM to Susan Myrick, 17 April 1939.
124. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 240.
125. Harwell, White Columns in Hollywood, 240.
126. Cameron, 210.
127. Farr, 195.
128. MMD. JRM to his mother, 4 Aug. 1939.
129. MMD. JRM to his mother, 4 Aug. 1939.
130. MMD. JRM to his mother, 5 Sept. 1939.
131. Farr, 3.
132. MMD. JRM to his mother, 22 Nov. 1939.
133. MMD. JRM to his mother, 22 Nov. 1939.
134. UGa. MM to GB, 12 May 1939.
135. Cameron, 225.
136. Cameron, 229.
137. Cameron, 229.
138. Farr, 2.
139. Interview with FM. Peggy described this scene to John’s family. Also Farr, 8.
140. Atlanta Journal Magazine, 18 Dec. 1949. Thinking that this incident was truly funny, Peggy related it to John’s family and to friends.
141. Harold Martin, “Atlanta’s Most Brilliant Event,” Atlanta Georgian, 16 Dec. 1939. “Gone With the Wind” as Book and Film. Ed. Richard Harwell (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983), 149.
142. Interview with FM and MS.
143. Harwell, “Gone With the Wind” as Book and Film, 149.
144. Interview with MS.
Chapter 14
Patriotic Volunteer
1. MMD. JRM to his mother, 15 Jan. 1940.
2. MMD. JRM to his mother, 15 Jan. 1940.
3. UGa. MM to Virginius Dabney, 23 July 1942.
4. UGa. MM to Virginius Dabney, 23 July 1942.
5. UGa. MM to Virginius Dabney, 23 July 1942.
6. UGa. MM to Virginius Dabney, 23 July 1942.
7. MMD. JRM to his mother, 15 Jan. 1940.
8. MMD. JRM to his mother, 20 Dec. 1939.
9. MMD. JRM to his mother, 15 Jan. 1940.
10. MMD. JRM to his mother, 15 Jan. 1940.
11. MMD. MM to Mother Marsh, 28 March 1940.
12. MMD. MM to Mother Marsh, 28 March 1940.
13. MMD. JRM to his mother, 29 March 1940.
14. MMD. MM to “Dear Family,” 22 March 1940.
15. MMD. JRM to his mother, 29 March, 1940.
16. MMD. JRM to his mother, 29 March 1940.
17. MMD. JRM to his mother, 29 March 1940.
18. MMD. JRM to his mother, 29 March 1940.
19. UGa. JRM to GB, 28 Aug. 1939.
20. UGa. JRM to GB, 28 Aug. 1939.
21. UGa. JRM to GB, 7 Nov. 1939. >
22. UGa. JRM to GB, 7 Nov. 1939.
23. UGa. GB to MM, 27 March, 1940.
24. Nell Battle, “Scarlett Materializes,” Raleigh News, 18 Feb. 1940. “Gone With the Wind” as Book and Film. Ed. Richard Harwell (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983), 170-74.
25. UGa. MM to Nell Battle Lewis, 15 March 1940.
26. MMD. JRM to his family, “Dear Folks,” 17 June 1940.
27. Finis Farr, Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta (New York: Morrow, 1965), 204.
28. Farr, 204-7.
29. FMZ’s Papers; Interview with Henry Marsh’s daughter, Jane Dieckmann, 3 May 1993.
30
. UGa. MM to Ellen Glasgow, 11 Nov. 1940.
31. UGa. MM to Ellen Glasgow, 11 Nov. 1940.
32. MMD. JRM to his mother, 17 Nov. 1940.
33. MMD. JRM to his mother, 17 Nov. 1940.
34. MMD. JRM to his mother, 15 Oct. 1940.
35. UGa. MM to HB, 11 Nov. 1940.
36. MMD. JRM to his mother, 11 May 1944.
37. “Margaret Mitchell Visits Here,” Daily Independent (Maysville, Kentucky), 17 Nov. 1940.
38. Farr, 203-4.
39. “Gone With the Wind Author, Husband Are Visitors in City,” Lexington, Kentucky, Herald, 29 Nov. 1940.
40. MMD. JRM to his mother, 4 Feb. 1941.
41. Farr, 209-10.
42. UGa. MM to Wallace McClure, 8 Aug. 1940.
43. UGa. Main Library, Government Files. Stephens Mitchell’s statement to a Joint Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate with Respect to the Universal Copyright Convention and to S. 2559.
44. UGa. Main Library, Government Files. Also UGa. JRM to GB, 24 June 1940.
45. UGa. MM to Wallace McClure, 16 Aug. 1940.
46. UGa. MM to Wallace McClure, 8 Aug. 1940.
47. UGa. MM to Wallace McClure, 22 July 1939.
48. MMD. JRM to his mother, 17 June 1940.
49. MMD. JRM to his mother, 17 June 1940.
50. MMD. JRM to his mother, 17 June 1940.
51. MMD. JRM to his mother, 4 Feb. 1943.
52. MMD. JRM to his mother, 4 Feb. 1943.
53. UGa. MM to Wallace McClure, 27 Sept. 1941.
54. Interview with FM.
55. MMD. MM to Mother Marsh, 27 July 1943.
56. MMD. MM to Mother Marsh, 27 July 1943. Also Farr, 211.
57. UGa. MM to Leodel Coleman, 23 Aug. 1943.
58. UGa. MM to Leodel Coleman, 23 Aug. 1943.
59. Farr, 213.
60. UGa. MM to GB, 9 June 1941.
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