- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Gone With the Wind Movie Premiere Ball
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1939-12-04
- Subject:
- Actresses
Motion picture premieres--Georgia--Atlanta
Entertainment--Georgia--Atlanta
Motion Pictures
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Uniforms--1930-1940
Balls (Parties)--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) - People:
- Crews, Laura Hope, 1880-1942
Hornsby, Marion - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of actress Laura Hope Crews dressed as her character Aunt Pittypat, arriving at the Gone With the Wind Junior League Ball at Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, with Atlanta police chief Marion Hornsby (middleground, center).
Gone with the Wind was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Author Margaret Mitchell in 1936. The novel concerns a young woman's life in the midst of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1939 the book was made into a film, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The film premiered in Atlanta, Georgia at Loew's Grand Theater. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.977.001
ahc170977001.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/471
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U. S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 7 x 9 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
