George Reeves is credited as playing the part of Brent Tarleton, and Fred Crane is billed as Stuart Tarleton. This is incorrect: Crane played Brent, and Reeves played Stuart
$41,200,000 total rentals of the film in 1961.
$35,000,000 paid by CBSŪ for sa 20-year television run.
7,000 feet of streets were laid for the city of Atlanta.
3,000 feet of reconstructed Peachtree Street were laid.
1,000,000 feet of lumber were used to build the sets.
1,100 horses were used.
375 other animals were used, including dogs, mules, oxen, cows and pigs.
450 vehicles were used, including wagons, gun-caissons and ambulances.
59 members of the cast.
12,000 days of employment in shooting schedule.
2,400 extras and bit players.
1,350,000 feet of film ran through the cameras.
449,512 feet of color film were shot totaling 88 hours.
160,000 feet of film were printed.
20,300 feet of edited film totaling 3 hours 45 minutes.
1,500 sketches of sets were drawn.
200 sets were designed.
90 sets were constructed.
3,000 sketches of shot setups were made covering every scene in the film.
53 buildings were erected to re-create the city of Atlanta. 10,000 antiques were offered for sale in the Charity Bazaar Scene.
25 cameos were purchased in the U.S. and Europe for Scarlett's dresses.
7 TechnicolorŪ cameras filmed the Atlanta fire with flames leaping 500 feet from a set that covered 40 acres.
10 pieces of fire equipment from the Los Angeles Fire Department, 25 policeman, 50 studio firemen and 200 studio helpers controlled the Atlanta fire.
15,00 gallons of water doused the Atlanta fire after filming.
1,000,000 feet of film would have been required to film the entire novel and the resulting film would have taken 1 week to show.
250,000 man hours were spent in pre-production before a foot of film was shot.
750,000 man hours were spent in actual production.
2,500 costumes were worn by the female characters.
7 bales of cotton went into the female wardrobe.
$10,000 of cleaning bills for wardrobe during production.
34 different carpet designs were created for the film.
36 wallpaper designs were created for the film.
12 days shooting was closed down when George Cukor was dismissed.
$30,000 for Vivien Leigh's salary.
$10,000 total salary of supporying characters from Hattie McDaniel on down.
$446,688 fir stars and supporting payroll.
$108,469 for extras payroll.
$1,408,997 for technicians payroll.
550 separate items of wardrobe were created.
377 costume sketches made by Walter Plunkett.
44 costume sketches for Rhett.
21 costume shanges for Melanie.
11 costume changes for Ashley.
$153,818 was the cost of the costumes.
$2,500,000 was the projected production cost of which half was contributed by MGMŪ, the rest by Selznick backers.
$3,700,000 was the actual production cost.
$3,957,000 was the final cost including overhead for prints, advertising, publicity and distribution.
469 feature films were released in 1939.
125 shooting days for Vivien Leigh.
71 shooting days for Clark Gable.
59 shooting days for Olivia de Havolland.
32 shooting days for Leslie Howard.
21 weeks for principal photography.
23 weeks for editing.
10,000 copies of the novel initially printed.
176,000 copies of the novel sold within 3 weeks.
1,000,000 copies of the novel sold within 6 months.
1,690,000 copies of the novel sold within 1 year.
1,037 pages to the novel.
500,000 words in the novel.
3 & 1\2 pounds is the novel's weight.
$3.00 price of the novel in 1936.
$2.75 pre-publication price of the novel in 1936.
864 pages to the paperback edition, which was the largest ever published as of 1980.
2,500 extras were ordered for the Confederate Wounded Scene.
1,500 extras supplied by the Screen Extras Guild.
1,000 dummies used to augment live extras in the Confederate Wounded Scene.
$197,877 was the cost to build the sets.
$35,000 was the cost of lumber and materials.
$153,818 was the wardrobe cost.
$109,974 was the cost of TechnicolorŪ film stock. $5,511 was the cost of soundtrack stock.
$10,363 was the cost of developing and printing the soundtrack.
$134,497 was the lighting cost.
$69,917 was the cost of rental and purchase of props.
$54,341 was the cost of location fees.
$40,000,000 estimated cost of remaking Gone With The Wind 20 years later.
$.75 was the cost of a ticket to the morning or afternoon preformance in 1939.
$1.00 was the cost of a ticket to the evening preformances in 1939.
70% was MGM'sŪ share of the gross box-office receipts from theatre owners.
25,000,000 people had seen Gone With The Wind by the end of 1940.
$945,000 was grossed by the film in the first week.
$32,000,000 was grossed by the film domestically by July 1943.
$14,000,000 was grossed at the box office in the first year Gone With The Wind was released.
8,100 theatres showed Gone With The Wind in general releases after a year of road shows.
24,000,000 additional people saw Gone With The Wind in it's general release.
10,500,000 additiona; people saw Gone With The Wind in it's third time around.
1,400 candidates interviesed in the search for Scarlett.
90 candidates were given screen tests.
$92,000 was the cost of screen testing possible Scarletts.
142,000 feet for black-and-white film were used in Scarlett screen tests.
13,000 feet of TechnicolorŪ film was used in Scarlett screen tests.
2,500 seats in Atlanta's Grand Theatre for the premiere.
150,000 people greeted a motorcade of starts from the Atlanta airport.
$10.00 was the price of a ticket to the Atlanta premiere.
5,200 attened the gala charity ball in Atlanta. 13 OscarŪ nominations.
10 OscarsŪ won.
$75,000,000 was grossed domestically and in Canda.
$50,000 was the purchase prive of the motion picture rights to the novel.
$50,000 voluntarily sent to Miss Mitchell after the film release.
.0007% of the movie's gross represented by cost of rights.
600,000 viewres had seen the movie in East Berlin in the 1950s were it ran for 2 & 1\2 years.
8,000,000 copies of the novel were sold throughout the world by 1956
25 countries have had editions of the novel published in 28 languages.
$33,500,000 was the total in rentals of the movie by 1960 per Variety'sŪ list of all-time box-office grossersŪ.
$7,700,000 rentals from the 1961 reisue of the film.
