ved Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Despite warnings from her father, Gerald (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at an upcoming barbecue at "Twelve Oaks", owned by John Wilkes (Howard Hickman). At the barbecue she talks to Ashley and declares her love to him. Unfortunately roguish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) witnessed the whole incident. The spoiled and self-centered Scarlett right from the beginning fascinates him. Simultaneously men at the party talk about the coming war. They're afraid because the enemies, Yankees, are a way better equipped. However, after Ashley denies his love to Scarlett, in order to make him jealous Mss. O'Hara accepts Charles Hamilton's (Rand Brooks) proposal and becomes his wife. The war starts soon. Men join army. So does Scarlett's husband. Unfortunately he dies of disease before he even could participate in the Confederate Army's campaign. Poor widow goes to Savannah, to a party in memory of those who died. She meets there Rhett, whom she spends the rest of the evening with. Later in Atlanta took a place a deaths announcement. The city gets ready for the war after army attacked Gettysburg, PA. Finally General Sherman's army invaded Georgia and m
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