Conrack (1974) - Starring Jon Voight; To Kill a Mockingbird - Starring Gregory Peck; Midnight Cowboy - Starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight; West Side Story - Starring Natalie Wood; The Way Home - Korean movie about a city boy who spends the summer with his grandmother in a rural village. Incredibly sad.; The Grapes of Wrath - Starring Henry Fonda; The Good Earth - Pearl Buck story about China made into a movie starring Paul Muni.
Gone With the Wind was made in 1939, but not shown on TV until 1976, as I remember people reacting to it then. Until then it was shown only in fancy movie theaters, and only periodically. So in about 1968 I traveled over an hour on the freeway to see it in Hollywood. Toward the end, Scarlett is a ruin of what she had been before the war. Women in the big audience were sniffing, and I almost was. They identified with her as a woman and I didn't, but it was getting to me with moist eyes, too. This doesn't come across on TV nowadays at all. Ads, editing, distractions, small screen...the movie seems like an ordinary adventure story on TV. But it was nothing like Love is a Many-Splendored Thing. THAT is stressfully sad, even on TV.
My aunt was the baby sitter for Margaret Mitchell. She invited my aunt and one guest, my uncle, to attend opening night in Atlanta and to the party afterwards with Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and the rest of the cast.
