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James Baldwin [1924-87]         Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005] portrait by Allen G. Arpadi         Eudora Welty [1909-2001]         Walt Whitman [1819-92]


on Page One:  Early American Authors  •  Anthologies & Literary History

here on Page Two:  Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M

on Page Three:  Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z  •   The Beats

on Page Four:  Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L

on Page Five:  Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z

on Spirit of America's main page:  XXIst Century Authors

New Mexico Authors Page



Early  XXth  Century
American  Authors

Authors A thru M {just below}  •  Authors N thru Z {on Page 3}

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Nelson Algren [1909-81]
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L. Frank Baum [1856-1919]
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"The Wizard of Oz": 'Oz' books • 1939 movie site • 'Wizard of Oz' posters

Wizard of Oz poster   "The Wizard of Oz" [M.G.M./Loew's Aug 1939]
A cyclone picks up a house, a girl, and her dog Toto and transports them to the strange land of Oz, where she meets a Tin Woodsman, a Cowardly Lion, and a Scarecrow. They travel together along the Yellow Brick Road, fighting witches & flying monkeys to get to the Emerald City, where they finally confront the terrible Wizard of Oz. Produced by Mervyn LeRoy, directed by Victor Fleming; based on the novel by L. Frank Baum; starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin & Terry {as Toto}; won Oscars for Best Music Score & Best Song, Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Color Cinematography, Best Special Effects & Best Art Direction, Juvenile Award for Judy Garland; listed on National Film Registry (1989)
Warner Collector's Edition color DVD pkg [10/2005] 3 disks for $36.99
Warner Special Edition color DVD set [10/2005] 2 disks for $19.99
Warner/Turner color DVD [10/99] out of prodn/many used
M.G.M. color clamshell VHS [9/96] out of prodn/many used
M.G.M. color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/many used
Rhino/W.E.A. Special Edition soundtrack CD [9/98] for $18.98
Rhino/W.E.A. Deluxe Edition soundtrack CD [7/95] for $22.99
full credits from IMDb

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Robert Benchley [1889-1945]
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Robert Benchley Society [est. 2003]
DB's "Benchley Mania!" fansite
Algonquin Round Table official site

"Robert Benchley: A Biography" [McGraw-Hill 1955] by Nathaniel Benchley

Robert Benchley shorts  
"Robert Benchley and The Knights of The Algonquin" [2000]
26 Paramount comedy shorts [1928-42], with 3 that feature Alexander Woollcott & Donald Ogden Stewart
Kino Video b&w DVD [2/2006] for $26.99
Kino Video b&w VHS [6/2000] out of prodn/used
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Ambrose Bierce [1842-1914?]
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online etext of "The Devil's Dictionary" in MS/Reader format

Ambrose Bierce short stories  
"The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce" [Doubleday 1970]
Compiled by Ernest Jerome Hopkins

Bison Books 8x5¼ pb [12/84] for $12.89
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Louis Bromfield [1896-1956]
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P.B.S./W.O.S.U. documentary
Malabar Farm Historic Landmark Foundation in Lucas, Ohio

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Heywood Broun [1888-1939]
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Pearl S. Buck [1892-1973]
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"The Good Earth" [1937 movie]: DVD | video | credits at IMDb

1938 Nobel Prize

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W.R. Burnett [1899-1982] Page

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Edgar Rice Burroughs [1875-1950] Page

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James M. Cain [1892-1977] Page

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Willa Cather  [1873-1947]
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Willa Cather Archive at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

American Masters Willa Cather   "Willa Cather: The Road Is All" [P.B.S./American Masters Sept 2005]
Co-produced & directed by Joel Geyer; co-produuced & written by Christine Lesiak
PBS Home Video color DVD [4/2006] for $21.99
full credits at IMDb
P.B.S. official site
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Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] Pages

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poet-playwright e.e. cummings [1894-1962]
browse books • selected poetry • Wikipedia

Poets.org's E.E. Cummings pages
E.E. Cummings Society

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August Derleth [1909-71]
all books • 'Sac Prairie Saga' books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

August Derleth Society bio
August Derleth at Walden East
August Derleth fansite

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Theodore Dreiser [1871-1945]
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International Theodore Dreiser Society [est. 1991]
Dreiser Web Source at UPenn

Library of America Theodore Dreiser   Dreiser [1987] Edited by Richard Lehan
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [8/87] for $29.20
includes "Sister Carrie" [1900 novel], "Jennie Gerhardt" [1911 novel], and "Twelve Men" [1919 non-fiction]
Dreiser: "An American Tragedy" [1925 bestseller]
Edited by Thomas P. Riggio

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/2003] for $26.40
Theodore Dreiser American Journey   "Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey" [1993]
Abridged edition by Richard Lingeman

Wiley & Sons 9x6 pb [5/93] for $21.95
"Theodore Dreiser, Volume 1: At The Gates of The City, 1871-1907"
[1986] by Richard Lingeman

Putnam 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/86] out of print/many used
"Theodore Dreiser, Volume 2: An American Journey, 1908-1945"
[1990] by Richard Lingeman

Putnam hardcover [3/90] out of print/used
Dreiser and Veblen  
"Dreiser and Veblen: Saboteurs of The Status Quo" [1999]
by Clare Virginia Eby

Univ MO Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/99] for $39.95

Thorstein B. Veblen Page at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser   "Cambridge Companion To Theodore Dreiser" [2004]
Edited by Leonard Cassuto & Clare Virginia Eby

Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [3/2004] for $25.99
Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2004] for $75.00
Last Titan / Theodore Dreiser bio   "The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser" [2005]
by Jerome Loving

Univ CA Press 9x6½ pb [3/2005] for $26.56
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Lloyd C. Douglas [1877-1951]
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Howard Fast [1914-2003]
browse books • H.U.A.C. blacklist • explore videos/DVDs • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Wm. Faulkner [1897-1962] Page

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F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] Page

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Gene Fowler [1890-1960]
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" The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler" [1977]
by H. Allen Smith
Wm. Morrow hardcover [1/77] out of print/many used

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Robert Frost [1874-1963]
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official Robert Frost website
Vermont Friends of Robert Frost
four Pulitzer Prizes

Library of America Robert Frost  
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose and Plays [1995]
Edited by Richard Poirier & Mark Richardson

Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/95] for $23.10
includes the collections "Complete Poems of Robert Frost" [1949] & "In the Clearing" [1962], and nearly two dozen early works
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Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages
main books page • sound movies • silent movies • audio & ebooks

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Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] Pages

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won Oscar of Best Original Story for "Underworld" [1927]  shared Oscar for Best Original Story for "The Scoundrel" [1935]  Ben Hecht [1894-1964]
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Ben Hecht portrait   "Ben Hecht: The Man Behind The Legend" [1990]
by William MacAdams

Barricade Books 9x6½ pb [2/95] out of print/used
Scribner hardcover [3/90] out of print/used
"A Child of The Century" [1985] memoirs of Ben Hecht
Plume 7x5 pb [5/85] out of print/used
Dutton hardcover [5/85] out of print/used

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Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
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Ernest Hemingway Foundation [est. 1989] of Oak Park, IL
Hemingway Resource Center [est. 1996]
1954 Nobel Prize

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Robert E. Howard [1906-36]
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Conan the Cimmerian: videos/DVDs • WebRing • official website

Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, TX

Robert E. Howard Reader  
"The Robert E. Howard Reader" [2007]  
by Darrell Schweitzer

Wildside Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2007] for $10.17
Wildside Press 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.10
Bibliography of Robert E. Howard   "The Neverending Hunt: A Bibliography of Robert E. Howard" [2007]
by Paul Herman, with Glenn Lord

Wildside Press 11x8½ pb [6/2007] for $13.57
Blood and Thunder Robert E. Howard bio   "Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard" [2006]
by Mark Finn

MonkeyBrain Books 8¾x5 pb [11/2006] for $10.85
Robert E. Howard Centennial bio   "Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard" [2006]
Edited by Benjamin Szumskyj, Foreword by Michael Moorcock

Hippocampus Press 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $15.00
Whole Wide World   "The Whole Wide World" [Sony/Kushner-Locke Dec 1996]
Based on the memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis, who as a young schoolteacher in 1930s Texas met and befriended the eccentric author of the Conan tales. Co-produced & directed by Dan Ireland; starring Vincent D'Onofrio {as Bob Howard}, Renιe Zellweger {as Novalyne}, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Benjamin Mouton, Michael Corbett & Helen Cates
Sony widescreen color DVD [7/2003] for $14.99
Sony color VHS [3/99] out of prodn/used
U.M.V.D. soundtrack CD [1/97] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb
official movie site
11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99
One Who Walked Alone memoir  
"One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard - The Final Years" [1986]
memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis

Donald M Grant 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/86] for $23.10
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Langston Hughes [1925-90]
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Langston Hughes page at A.A.L.B.C.

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Wm. Bradford Huie [1910-86]
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Zora Neale Hurston [1891-1960]
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KH's Zora Neale Hurston fansite
Zora Neale Hurston page at A.A.L.B.C.

Library of America Zora Neale Hurston  Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs & Other Writings [1995] Edited by Cheryl A. Wall
Library of America 8x5 hardcover [2/95] for $24.00
includes "Mules and Men" [1935]; "Tell My Horse" [1937]; "Dust Tracks On A Road" [1942 autobiography]; and 22 essays
Hurston: Novels & Stories [1995]
Edited by Cheryl A. Wall

Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [2/95] for $21.35
includes "Jonah's Gourd Vine" [1934]; "Their Eyes Were Watching God" [1937 novel]; "Moses, Man of The Mountain" [1939 novel]; "Seraph On The Suwanee" [1948]; and selected short stories
Zora Neale Hurston Complete Stories  
"Zora Neale Hurston: The Complete Stories" [1995]
Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Sieglinde Lemke

HarperPerennial 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2008] for $11.21  
HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [2/96] for $10.17
HarperCollins 8½x6 hardcover [1/95] out of print/used
Wrapped In Rainbows bio   "Wrapped In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston" [2002]
by Valerie Boyd

Scribner 8¾x6 pb [1/2004] for $12.24
Scribner hardcover [12/2002] for $30.00

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California’s 'premier bard'  Robinson Jeffers  [1887-1962]
browse books • Wikipedia

Robinson Jeffers pages at University of Illinois/UC
Tor House Foundation
Poets.org's Robinson Jeffers page
Robinson Jeffers alumnus pages at Occidental College, CA

Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers  
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volumes I-V [1988-2001]
Edited by Tim Hunt

Stanford Univ Press 9¾x9 hardcover box set [11/2002] for $300.00
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George S. Kaufman  [1889-1961]
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official George S. Kaufman website

"George S. Kaufman: An Intimate Portrait" [1972] by Howard Teichman
Atheneum hardcover [1/72] out of print/used

Library of America George S. Kaufman   Kaufman & Company: Broadway Comedies [2004]
Edited by Laurence Maslon

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $26.60
includes "The Royal Family" [1927], "Animal Crackers" [1928], "June Moon" [1929], "Once In A Lifetime" [1930], "Of Thee I Sing" [1931 musical], "You Can't Take It With You" [1936], "Dinner At Eight" [1932], "Stage Door" [1936] and "The Man Who Came To Dinner" [1939]

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Oliver La Farge [1901-63]
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Oliver La Farge papers at UTX-Austin

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sports writer  Ring Lardner  [1885-1933]
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'Lardner Mania' fansite

Ring Lardner bio by Jonathan Yardley   "Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner" [1977]
by Jonathan Yardley

Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $18.95
Random House hardcover [1/77] out of print/many used

(his son) screenwriter  Ring Lardner, Jr.  [1915-2000]
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Ring Lardner Jr. / I'd Hate Myself In The Morning  
"I'd Hate Myself In The Morning: A Memoir" [2000]
by Ring Lardner, Jr.; introduction by Victor Navasky

Thunder's Mouth Press 9¼x6 pb [10/2001] for $10.17
Nation Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $15.61
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poet  Vachel Lindsay  [1879-1931]
browse books • poetry page • Wikipedia • 'Congo' etext

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Sinclair Lewis  [1885-1951]
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1930 Nobel Prize
Minnesota Historical Society's Sinclair Lewis bio page
Sinclair Lewis Society

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Ross Lockridge, Jr.  [1914-48]
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Ross Lockridge, Jr. bio by his son   "Shade of The Raintree: The Life & Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr." [1994]
by (his son) Laurence Lockridge

Penguin 7x5 pb [11/95] out of print/used
Viking hardcover [4/94] out of print/many used
Raintree County novel   "Raintree County" [1948 bestseller & classic]
by Ross Lockridge, Jr.

Buccaneer Books hardcover [12/91] for $32.97
Penguin pb [4/94] out of print/used
Houghton Mifflin hardcover [6/84] out of print/used
Pan Macmillan pb [1977] out of print/used
Raintree County video   Raintree County poster   1957 M.G.M. movie
Directed by [blacklistee] Edward Dymytryk; starring Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin & Elizabeth Taylor {nominated for Best Actress Oscar}
MGM/UA color VHS [1985] 2 tapes; out of stock/used
Warner color roadshow VHS [10/99] 2 tapes; out of stock/used
Warner color widescreen VHS [10/99] 2 tapes; out of stock/used
MGM/UA color widescreen VHS [1985] 2 tapes; out of stock/used
full credits from IMDb
11"x17" white poster from Amazon for $9.99
'Raintree County' website

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Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928] Page

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John D. MacDonald [1916-86] + Travis McGee Pages

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Ross Macdonald [1915-83] Page

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John P. Marquand  [1893-1960]
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+ Mr. Moto: Marquand/Moto book • videos/DVDs • JSK's fansite

Marquand papers at Yale

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Don Marquis  [1878-1937]
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+ Archie & Mehitabel: Wikipedia

JE's Don Marquis fansite

Archy and Mehitabel   "The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel" [2006]
by Don Marquis

Penguin Classics 7½x5 pb [8/2006] for $10.20
"archyology: The Long Lost Tales of Archy & Mehitabel" [1996]
by Don Marquis, edited by Jeff Adams

Univ Press of New England 8¾x5¼ hardcover [2/96] for $11.96
"archyology ii (The Final Dig): The Long Lost Tales of Archy & Mehitabel" [1998]
by Don Marquis, edited by Jeff Adams

Univ Press of New England hardcover [3/98] for $13.22

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Edison Marshall  [1894-1967]
browse books • IMDb listing • no entry at Wikipedia

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H.L. Mencken [1880-1956] Page

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poet  Edna St. Vincent Millay  [1892-1950]
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Millay Colony For The Arts [est. 1973] in Austerlitz, NY
Edna St. Vincent Millay poetry pages at American Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay bio by Nancy Milford  
"Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay" [2001]
by Nancy Milford

Random House 8x5 pb [9/2002] for $10.17
Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2001] out of print/many used
Library of America Edna St. Vincent Millay  "Millay: Selected Poems" [2003]
Edited by J. D. McClatchy

American Poets Project/LOA 7¾x4¾ hardcover [1/2003] for $15.60
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Margaret Mitchell  [1900-49]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

official "G.W.T.W." website
G.W.T.W. Ring on RingSurf
Dawn's G.W.T.W. fansite

Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind'   "Gone With The Wind" novel [Scribner Sept 1936]
by Margaret Mitchell

Beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara loses her first love, and takes up with renegade Rhett Butler at the start of the War Between The States; she refuses to admit her love for Rhett and eventually loses him and her beloved Tara plantation; awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)
Warner Books mass pb [8/93] for $7.99
Warner Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/99] for $10.85
Scribner 8½x6 hardcover [facsimile] for $17.82
Gone With The Wind poster   "Gone With The Wind" feature film [Selznick/M.G.M. Dec 1939]
Produced by David O. Selznick; directed by Victor Fleming; starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Evelyn Keyes, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond & Yakima Canutt; won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Color Cinematography, Best Actress [VL], Best Supporting Actress [HM], Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Honorary Oscar for "outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood"; Oscar nominations for Best Actor [Gable], Best Supporting Actress [OdH], Best Special Effects, Best Music Score [Max Steiner] & Best Sound; listed on National Film Registry (1989)
Warner Collector's Edition color DVD set [11/2004] 4 disks for $27.99
Warner Special Edition color DVD [1/2006] 2 disks for $13.99
Warner color VHS [3/2000] 2 tapes - out of prodn/many used
Rhino/WEA soundtrack CD [6/97] for $11.98
full credits from IMDb

official "G.W.T.W." movie site
'Gone With The Wind' posters & photos at AllPosters.com

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