Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind is an award-winning film, but it is also a controversial one due to its depiction of enslaved people and the Civil War. Adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret ...

Actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award on this day in history, Feb. 29, 1940. McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as ...

Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her ...

Hattie McDaniel arrived at her audition for the role of Gone With the Wind’s Mammy wearing a maid’s uniform. It wasn’t a costume — she was headed to work as a housekeeper later that day. She would, of ...

Donald McCaig, who enjoyed success with historical novels, books about border collies and two authorized follow-ups to “Gone With the Wind,” died Nov. 11 at his home in Highland County, Virginia. He ...

On July 10th The Margaret Mitchell House Museum in Atlanta reopened after four years, honoring the place where Mitchell in 1925-1931 wrote the critical and commercial success, Gone with the Wind ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- If you measure bang for your buck by the amount of time spent in the movie theater, a great opportunity is heading your way. The nearly four-hour-long film "Gone with the Wind" ...

Steve Friess is an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based freelance writer and former senior writer covering technology for Politico. Back in 1940, when Hattie McDaniel took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress ...

Author Margaret Mitchell published the American classic novel "Gone with the Wind" on this day in history, June 30, 1936. The 1,000-page novel, set in Georgia during the Civil War and in the ...

Today, Scarlett is rarely mentioned, remembered mainly as a high-budget experiment that could not live up to the original. It ...