Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

(Gone with the Wind) Lydia Schiller — Selznick International Pictures Final shooting script for the second part of the film. February–June 1939 Mimeograph typescript, 176 pages (279 x 216 mm), comprising the final shooting script for the second half of Gone with the Wind, issued to script clerk Lydia Schiller, with extensive annotations and emendations in pencil, printed on pink and cream paper, and interleaved with over a dozen carbon-copy inter-office communications on blue paper with Selznick International letterhead, from producer David O. Selznick and script continuity director Barbara Keon, giving changes and production instructions, plus set list, staff list, chart of seasons, and advance schedule comprising 10 pages bound in at end, front wrapper dated 27 February 1939, final inserted inter-office memorandum dated 9 June 1939; substantial marginal fraying, creasing, and finger soiling, a few leaves loose. Blue wrappers bound with two brass split clasps; upper wrapper detached, creased and soiled. [With:] Pictorial souvenir program from the theatrical run, inscribed with viewing dates at the Astor Theatre, NYC (9 June 1940), and the College Theatre, New Haven (June 1941); light soiling. [And:] Perspex display case. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” — The annotated final shooting script of Gone with the Wind, with censorship-protection alternate endings to the most iconic line in film history. Production on Gone with the Wind officially began on 26 January 1939 and concluded principal photography on 1 July 1939, though second-unit and retakes continued into autumn. The film was produced by David O. Selznick for Selznick International Pictures, directed primarily by Victor Fleming. The screenplay was based on Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel and underwent multiple drafts by Sidney Howard. The film’s production is widely documented as one of the most logistically complex and tumultuous in Hollywood history, marked by frequent rewrites, directorial changes, and intense on-set oversight by Selznick himself. This copy begins with the scene of Suellen and Carreen picking cotton and complaining bitterly about Scarlett. Throughout, the script bears extensive annotations in pencil, including camera directions, scene corrections, and continuity adjustments. Of particular note is a typed memo dated 9 June 1939, from continuity supervisor Barbara Keon to script clerks Lydia Schiller, Connie Earle, and Tillie Thompson, instructing the preparation of two alternate versions of Rhett Butler’s parting line in scene 681 for censorship protection: Rhett: (very slowly) “Frankly my dear I just don’t care.” “I wish I could care what you do or where you go—(he opens the door) but frankly my dear I just don’t care.” These variants were produced in anticipation of potential Hays Code objections to the word “damn.” Fortunately, Selznick’s lobbying resulted in a formal amendment to the Code in November 1939—permitting limited use of words like “hell” and “damn” when justified by historical or literary context—and the original line remained intact, cementing its place as one of the most quoted in American film history. As was Selznick’s custom, shooting scripts were closely guarded and often destroyed after production—making annotated working scripts like the present example, used on set by a core member of the production team, exceptionally rare. This copy was later presented by Selznick to a colleague working in a neighboring sound stage. A remarkable production-used script from one of the most iconic films of Hollywood’s Golden Age. PROVENANCE Lydia Schiller, script clerk — subsequently presented by David O. Selznick to the father of the previous owner, a fellow crew member on a neighboring stage — Sotheby's New York, Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana. Property of the Estate of James H. Heineman, 26 June 1998, Lot 486

View 1 of Lot 418: (Gone with the Wind) | Final shooting script of the second half of the film

(gone with the wind) | final shooting script of the second half of the film

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936 FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 8vo (214 x 146 mm), publisher's grey cloth, lettered and decorated in blue, original dust-jacket, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, dust-jacket chipped at corners, browned and worn at edges, lower cover of dust-jacket lightly soiled A classic of American popular fiction; first issue, dated May 1936. The dust-jacket is first state, with Gone with the Wind listed second in the right-hand column on the lower cover, and with price listed as $3.00 on front inner flap.

View 1 of Lot 95: Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind, New York, 1936, first edition, first issue

margaret mitchell | gone with the wind, new york, 1936, first edition, first issue

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan Co., 1936 4to (214 x 144 mm). Signed on the front free endpaper by all the important cast members of the film, including Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Alicia Rhett, Leona Roberts, and Jane Darwell, with an additional presentation inscription on the half title; uneven toning to endpapers and half title, the ghost of a rusty paperclip at the head of the front free endpaper and subsequent leaves, a small crease and wear to the lower corner of the front free endpaper, a short edge tear to the half title, the rest of the contents generally clean and bright with an occasional very minor blemish. Publisher's gray cloth, spine and upper board stamped in blue; a well-read copy, with a lean and light toning to the spine, rubbing and wear mostly to extremities, short tears to the cloth at spine ends, the hinges a bit loose but sound. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed clamshell case; spine slightly faded. PROVENANCE The Kenneth Rendell Gallery

View 1 of Lot 417: Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With The Wind, signed by the film's cast

mitchell, margaret | gone with the wind, signed by the film's cast

An Italian <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gone+with+the+Wind&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gone with the Wind</a>.<ul><li>Ercole Brini (Italian, 1913-1989).</li><li>Metroscope.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Exceptionally rare. There are fewer than ten known surviving examples.

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