VIS 170.970.001 Arrival for Gone With the Wind Movie Premiere Festivities

Arrival for Gone With the Wind Movie Premiere Festivities

Title Arrival for Gone With the Wind Movie Premiere Festivities
Photographer Unknown
Description View of (left to right) Kay Kyser, orchestra leader; Atlanta Police Captain Jack Malcom; Carole Lombard, an actress and the wife of Clark Gable; an unidentified individual; Clark Gable, the actor who played Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind; an unidentified individual; Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield; and Georgia Governor E. D. Rivers; upon the arrival of the Gone With the Wind celebrities for the movie premiere festivities, at Candler Field in Atlanta, Georgia.
Geographic Location Atlanta (Ga.)
Subject Motion pictures
Entertainment--Georgia--Atlanta
Actresses
Actors
Conductors (Music)
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Politicians--Georgia
Mayors--Georgia--Atlanta
Governors--Georgia
Suits (Clothing)--1930-1940
Flower arrangements
Personal Name Kyser, Kay, 1905-1985
Lombard, Carole, 1908-1942
Gable, Clark William, 1901-1960
Hartsfield, William Berry, 1890-1971
Rivers, Eurith Dickinson, 1895-1967
Malcom, Jack
Corporate Name Candler Field (Atlanta, Ga.)
Date Original 15 December 1939
Date Digital 2009
Type 6 x 8 in. silver gelatin print
Digital Format JPEG
Catalogue Number VIS 170.970.001
Collection Atlanta History Photograph Collection
Publisher Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30305
Rights This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission ofr use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
Notes Gone with the Wind was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Author Margaret Mitchell in 1936. The novel concerns a young woman's life in the midst of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1939 the book was made into a film, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The film premiered in Atlanta, Georgia at Loew's Grand Theater.
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