Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel | GPB Documentaries 

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That was wonderful. I am 80. At the age of 16 we went to stay in a holiday cottage for 4 days. It never stopped raining and I never got out of bed. That first morning I found Gone with the Wind in a bookshelf and read it for 3 days until it was finished. The rain stopped and we went for a drive, Reading that book is one of my favourite memories.

I've heard it said that when Hattie McDaniel was criticized for playing a maid, she said: "Better to play a maid than be one."

I grew up in Atlanta. In 1939 my dad played the trumpet in the Georgia Military Academy band (high school now known as Woodward Academy). When GWTW premiered at the Loew’s Grand Theatre, Dad marched down Peachtree Street, passing close to Clark Gable and his wife Carole Lombard, Vivian Leigh and her husband Lawrence Olivier, Olivia DeHavilland, and others.

There should be a movie made about Miss Margaret’s life, her childhood, family life, how she got started, etc.

Margaret Mitchell was a woman ahead of her time. She did a lot incognito for the Black community in the US and also wrote a cheerful letter to Hattie McDaniel. GWTW was a wonderful movie and a masterpiece! God Bless the soul of Margaret Mitchell. She will definitely not be forgotten.

I only knew her as the Author of Gone With The Wind, I had no idea she accomplished so much more than that.

My Dad told me a story when he was in grade school around 1927 or 1928, his teacher was a good friend of Margaret Mitchell's. She would tell the class that her friend was writing a book. At that time the book did not have a name. That book was "Gone with The Wind". She would visit Miss Mitchell at her apartment in Atlanta and recalls seeing chapter 1 was on the couch, chapter 2 on the coffee table: etc. This story will always stick with me. Thank you Dad for the great stories that has enriched my life.

Shortly after my parents started dating ('61), my dad gave Mom Gone With The Wind because he found out she loved reading. They would have been married 60 yrs this month and that book has always been on their bookshelves. Mom says it's one of her favorite books (the movie doesn't hold a candle to it) and put a bookplate in the front gifting it to me. When that day comes (I'm in no hurry) it will have a special place on my shelves. I'm so glad I saw this documentary! Margaret Mitchell was an amazing woman, so much more than I ever knew!

Books were my life from a small child living on a farm in GA with no tv or playmates. The weekly book mobile visit was the highlight of my life and when the bookmobile arrived my mother rang the bell and I was relieved of farm duties to pick out my books. I remember when the librarian sent me Gone With the Wind. I read every spare moment as did most of the rest of my family. My mother bought a set of World Book encyclopedias and I could get lost in those books when the library books were finished. Such good memories.

It was such a pleasure to watch this documentary. She was the prominent woman of her time. Thanks to everyone who made an input.

Very good documentary! Interesting how she wove the occurrences of her life into Gone With The Wind.

Thank you for the documentary about Margaret Mitchell. I often wondered what she was like and where the thoughts and inspiration for this novel came from. During my 70 years, Gone With the Wind, I am currently reading my copy of her novel for probably the 20th time. I never get tired or bored of reading the story and it’s as if I’m reading it for the first time each time. I think I can understand why she asked to have the original transcript burned. In part, it might have been her last rebellious act. RIP Margaret Mitchell

Harry Smith's voice is golden.

Okay I just finished watching this. I can say with confidence, that this is the best documentary about the author and book. She was a rare woman, just like Scarlett.

There's a saying in the writing world: "No writer ever works alone." Thank goodness for those people. And what an extraordinary woman M. Mitchell was. She still inspires me.

sooo interesting and heartwarming to know how she helped further education for american black med students!!

I 💗 documentaries and I can easily spend an entire weekend binge watching them. I must say that I found Margaret Mitchell's life to be quite fascinating and in many ways most inspiring.📖🖌️

Our family immigrated from Korea to Atlanta in 1986. My mother is a huge fan of Margaret Mitchell and that may have inspired her to major in English Literature.

Excellent documentary. Thank you to the people who made this possible. What a very interesting life. I would’ve never guessed that she had that much gumption!

As a Southerner and NATIVE Virginian, with heritage and family that stretchs 250 years+ back in time, I was raised loving "Gone with the Wind" and Margaret Mitchell. She was a well balanced product of her time, and a proud Southern Lady. It's terrible that today's "political correctness" has hurt her legacy. You can't put a 2023 face on a 19th century and early 20th century time period. We learn from our history, and we also can be proud of our past........Without doing away with either. God bless y'all all🙏🤠

Excellent. What an extraordinary woman Margaret Mitchell was; I never realized the amazing life she lived.

Maybelle was a Victorian woman! She was loving in her way by teaching her children what they owed society. Honestly, we could use a little more of that these days

much sympathy for the accident prone, secretly depressed , she managed like a champion.

Such a great story! I was a care taker for Theodoshia Landis and her husband from 2013 until 2019. She was 99 when she passed in December 2019. Her father was Thomas Ripley Author of “ They died with their boots on “ he worked with Margret Mitchel at the Atlanta constitution. Both books published the same yo. He told her “ Margret Mitchell” good luck with your book . “ Gone with the wind. Never realizing it would be be a best seller!!!

It wasn’t until the last photo of Margaret Mitchell that I realized she was Scarlett.

This is a great documentary about a great woman. I love both the book and the movie

I knew how she died but never knew how she lived. Thank you 😊 💓

Scarlett was one of a kind, a survivor extraordinaire. GWTW is a work of art, the book and the movie. We should never erase it, we should embrace it and learn to heal.

She was so young when she spoke out with her bigotry. She learned in her later life. She became a support of civil rights and that , early in the century, showed her ability to think.

Wow. How much pain the people of color had to endure. Ironic that that is the novel's main theme. Hattie Mcdaniel was AMAZING in the film. I would have loved to meet her.

Margaret Mitchell &John Marsh the love story behind gone with the wind. Love this book.

Margaret Mitchell and Vivien Leigh shared the same intense fiery blue eyes; both were Scorpios too.

What a incredible woman

What a wonderful documentary. I am 72 years old & have not seen this. I am so thrilled & grateful you posted it. Thank You very much for sharing

She was such a beautiful woman. I’m happy she blossomed into a beautiful person as well.

'"RESPECTABILITY is the PUNISHMENT of the WILD". Who could ever have imagined?

What a gal. What a novel. What a movie. What a life. I throughly enjoyed this abbreviated documentary, and now I'll have to delve a little deeper into Margaret Mitchell's story.

This has been the most beautifully told bio of Margaret Mitchell ever told. Thank you!!!!!

Contrarry to Popular Beliefs the LOVE and Admiration between Blacks and Whites is very much Alive Spiritually. The 5 Colours of the Human Race are so connected None could EXIST without the Others.

Absolutely fascinating life she lead. Huge fan of the movie. Now I want to read the book. Her words. So proud of all she did after her success for the community.

This was a great documentary! I didn't know much about her but had always been curious.

Such a wonderful documentary. Margaret Mitchell was a spit fire. I'm sorry I did not care to know more about her. She reminded me of myself as a child, likes, dislikes, going against the grain. What a stunning masterpiece did she pen in Gone With the Wind. Had no idea she died so young. Beautiful lady. Thank you for sharing, G P B.

Thank you for this documentary about Margaret Mitchell. To learn about these amazing leading historian people. I find her story quit inspiring. what a GREAT lady all what she gone though and never gave up. Gone to soon.

When the editors were going through the book piece by piece one of the things they were not satisfied with was the name given the main character. Margaret Mitchell had given her the name Pansy and the editors didn't feel it fit at all. One of them came up with the name Scarlett.

When I discovered this I couldn’t wait to watch. What a treat to discover the complexity of this extraordinary woman. I had only known what limited info was out there. Wonderful.

This documentary should be a lesson taught in every school of America...

Peggy Mitchell was the BEST!

Viva la Margaret !!!

She definitely, was a great leader. She extended herself to a cause, which was not popular in her time. She made great contributions to the negro college, which resulted towards better care for the negroes in the south. She build a magnificent hospital for that reason. She never gave up; even though she was battling with depression; due to her ongoing illnesses. Her husband was a great asset to her, for the simple fact he was a journalist and also a great man; who helped the greatest writer of all time. Margaret Mitchell "Peggy"🌹

Can you imagine how much that manuscript would be worth if he hadn't burned it?!!!

I read this book at the age of 15 during a long hospital stay for orthopedic surgery due to cerebral palsy--because history has always fascinated me, and this was one of the first works of fiction to bring it such vivid life. One thing Mitchell realized is that history is not simply part of the past but is being shaped in the present; that is why her involvement in white supremacy changed: As the black population was able to share their story, she realized her own attitudes had been wrong. She not only changed them, but defied the social norms of her time and gave huge amounts of money to black causes, to help the black population fight against white oppression of the time. Had she lived another twenty years, I think she would have been very vocal about the civil rights movement, and would have agreed with the finally evolving insight that black lives do indeed matter; what a brilliant and kind lady she was; and how very proud her mother would have been of her.

Brilliant. Really shows the complexities of life. We do such a disservice to history & individuals when we paint w/ a broad brush using modern day as how others should be, rather than the nuances and layers of the life & world those people lived in. We should take care to reject just oversimplification for we will be future generations ‘history’, & examined by them.

I cried ....thank you....

"Her back NEVER touched the back of a chair". kinda like my mother - I had a "difficult" childhood - now I LOOK BACK FONDLY

The cinematography in this is the best on RU-vid.

Fascinating.

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY ! READING HER BOOK FOR THE THIRD TIME WITH GREAT PASSION ! THANK YOU ! GPB ! FOR SHOWING THIS ! WITH MY RESPECT AND LOVE TO MARGARET ! REST IN PEACE !

WOW! What an amazing lady! I never knew anything about her. She had pain, adversity, unsureness, struggled to find her identity at a time women just got married and had children. She made some bad choices she learn from and went on to write the greatest novel ever!

My grandmother had a signed copy of the book which I now have. She got it at a book signing when she purchased it back in the 30's (always said it cost a lot). When Mitchell died, her obituary was in the paper and my grandmother cut it out and put it in the book. There was a time in this country (late 60's and early 70's) when the book was on high school reading lists for American literature along with Drums along the Mohawk. Both books are now really hard to find.

That was wonderful. Margaret Mitchell is someone I would have loved to sit down and talk with.

I read Gone With The Wind and It was a wonderful book this is a very interesting documentary about this incredible lady

The actor on Charlotte's right in the scene where Scarlett goes into the house because she doesn't want to hear about War is George Reeves who played Superman in the long running TV series.

What an amazing woman!

Thanks for posting this! Just saved me 10 bucks on eBay

W a a novel, indeed. And what a movie! Its history, that should not be destroyed! But remembered and treasured!

When I read Han Suyin's 5 volume autobiography, it made me recall Margaret Mitchell's eternal message of enduring hope through instincts of survival and perseverance. Han Suyin's 5 volume titles; The Crippled Tree, A Mortal Flower, Birdless Summer, My House has Two Doors and Phoenix Harvest resonated so closely with the themes of Gone With the Wind.

Just wonderful to know the woman behind the book. I've read it twice. To me it's Rhett's story as he copes with the most frustrating, strong spirit of Scarlett.

This was a very well made and very enjoyable documentary. Thanks GPB!

An amazingly well done documentary about an amazing and fascinating woman!

What an incredible life! She was definitely an independent thinking woman! Yet, she did seem to be a risk taker & humble woman at the same time. Thank you for this video!!

Well done

Thank you for putting this doco together. Margaret lives on through many generations.

Wow to write one book to be the top selling book of the century and then a great movie based on it as the greatest some say in hollywood history yes I say Margaret Mitchell had the gumption the core knowing people the human condition and how they dealt with life joys and sorrows

I first read GWTW when I was 16. It’s influence was so great in that I wanted to be like Scarlett: strong, resilient and beautiful because that’s what she was. In my mind, Rhett went back to his people to clear his mind but in doing so, he realized that he truly still loved Scarlet, who in turn had rehabilitated her character and standing in the community. She was young enough that they had more children, never forgetting Eugenia Victoria of the Bonnie Blue eyes.

Thank you for including a brief commentary from my favorite author: Pat Conroy😊

Fantastic. What a woman.

Wow , I had no idea , what a great life lived . I`v always loved the movie . Now I have to read the book .

Absolutely fantastic!

This is the best GWTW bio I’ve ever seen.

Woman was before her time,strong girl,brave and amazing....wow for that time amazing woman..so injoy these true storys no one see or hears about...these are the many sorry no ons even knows about..ive subscribe!! Thank you

My cousin got me Gone With the Wind for Christmas in 1970 when I was 11 almost 12. I can remember the first chapter being so verbose but I eventually got through it.

Thank you!

A TRUE REMARKABLE WOMAN, A REAL IDOL, A GREAT INSPIRATION TO WOMEN INTERNATIONALLY. I HAVE A STAMP OF HER IMAGE. I RESPECT THIS WOMAN, MY INTELLECTUAL LIGHT.

Limiting the perspective from which we regard any human being we spend time with is doing ourselves an injustice. Each of us human beings can never be fully understood by the rest.

I bought "Gone with the Wind" in 2010 from a street market in Delhi for just hundred Indian rupees. I read it umpteen times and believe me, still kept as a souvenir.

When I had to lived in Atlanta for a short spell I went thru small apartment. It had a kitchen, bathroom, space for a bed, and a sitting room. I was a patient of Shepard Center after surviving a F4 tornado in Tennessee but had a T12 spinal cord.

She had gumption all right. She had deppression too, only too human. Love her story. What a complex c haracter, that original manuscript would be worth millions today, enough to pay hundreds of students college education.

Gone with The Wind has always been my favorite novel as is the movie. I lived in Atlanta for a few years and had the privilege of seeing her grave. This documentary really showed me who she was a a person. Thank you.

Love these documentaries.I listen to them at bed time.I often dose off but I go back and listen again tysm

Really enjoyed this. Thanks

Love Documentaries.margaret mitchell.

My birthday twin.

Really enjoy this documentary. Greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

I read GONE WITH THE WIND and loved it.

Such a fine documentary.

I love the book and the movie, learned so much from it.

I loved this book, and I read it the first time at 16. I’m glad I watched this documentary on Margaret Mitchell, I learned so much. She was a great person.

Fantastic.

Great program thx.