Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (1936) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and was produced as a film by Victor Fleming in 1939. The movie opens with a musical overture, and "Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South." Some of the musical backdrop, such as "Dixie" may seem dated -- not to say racist.
Trailers for the 1939 film by Victor Fleming:
Links:
On-line text of the novel (Gutenberg.net.au)
Frank Nugent's review of the film in the New York Times (December 20, 1939).
Margaret Mitchell House & Museum (Atlanta, Georgia).
Photographs of the Civil War from the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.).
