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WHAT WENT WRONG

Gone With The Wind

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

History, Movie, Hollywood, Directing, Flop, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, Film History, Film, Tv & Film

4.84.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDaniel may have starred in 1939’s Gone With the Wind, but this was David O. Selznick’s dumpster-fire-turned-classic. Join Lizzie as she takes Chris all the way back through a truly disastrous production featuring more than a dozen writers, a hat trick of directors, an amphetamine fueled producer, and racism galore - both onscreen and off.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to what went wrong your favorite podcast fullstop that happens

0:25.0

to be about movies today I am joined as always by my co-host the lovely Lizzy Bassit Lizzy how

0:32.6

are you doing this evening I'm good I'm actually I'm really excited to talk to you about the movie

0:37.3

that we are covering today also scared I'm terrified but I am excited I'm excited to talk to you

0:42.9

about it too I'm also excited to talk to you about some of the original titles for the movie that I

0:47.2

looked up Scarlett O'Hara Hellspawn Scarlett O'Hara the Black Widow Scarlett O'Hara the

0:56.4

emotional typhoid Mary Scarlett O'Hara caused more damage than the Civil War those are just a few

1:03.7

of the alternate titles I heard the studio was talking about but of course they went with Lizzy

1:10.0

what movie are we covering today we are covering a whopper today we are covering gone with the wind

1:16.0

and it is honestly this is the hardest this is the hardest one that I've done so far out of all

1:21.9

of the what went wrongs it was an insane amount of research and I could have done more and I just

1:27.6

had to stop because I was like I don't I don't we don't have eight hours to talk about this

1:33.8

but before we get to go on with the wind we do want to remind all of you lovely listeners that

1:37.8

we have a patreon we bought a zoo we bought a patreon we you bought a patreon actually because

1:44.2

a surprising number of you all have already signed up and we really appreciate that and we have

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2:06.2

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2:11.4

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2:16.4

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2:22.4

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