Gone With the Wind' Atlanta premiere in 1939

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Gone With the Wind' premiere in 1939

The premiere of "Gone With the Wind" at the Loew's Grand on Dec. 15, 1939, brought Hollywood to Atlanta. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland were all in attendance as fans swarmed the streets.

The premiere of "Gone With the Wind" at the Loew's Grand on Dec. 15, 1939, brought Hollywood to Atlanta.

Actresses Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara) and Olivia De Havilland (Melanie Hamilton) arrive in Atlanta for the premiere.

Clark Gable (Rhett Butler) and his wife, actress Carole Lombard, arrive in Atlanta.

Leigh rides with (from left) Georgia Gov. Ed Rivers, producer David O. Selznick and Jock Whitney, a nationally known financier

Leigh and Gable meet "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell at a party given by the Atlanta Women's Press Club.

Leigh (from left), Gable and De Havilland tour Cyclorama with George Simons, Atlanta city parks manager.

Police form a security line along Peachtree Street.

Fans cheer the motorcade at Five Points.

Gable rides in back with his arm around the waist of Lombard and Mayor William Hartsfield waving at right.

Fans spill into the road at Whitehall and Alabama Streets.

Gable greets some of his female admirers.

Mitchell arrives at the premiere.

Gable addresses the crowd on the WSB radio platform in front of the Georgian Terrace Hotel on Peachtree Street.

De Havilland speaks to the crowd.

Police officers line the entrance to the theater.

Whitney (from left, middle row), Mitchell, her husband John Marsh, Gable, Lombard and Hartsfield sit together at the premiere.

The cover of the opening night program.

From the opening night program book.

Gable's biography page from the program.

Leigh's biography from the program.

"Gone With the Wind," movie poster with Clark Gable, 1939

Vivien Leigh from "Gone With the Wind," 1939

Poster featuring Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes

Poster of Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton

Before it was the Loew's Grand, the building on Peachtree Street was Laurent deGive's Grand Opera House. It's seen here sometime in the late 1890s.

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The premiere of "Gone With the Wind" at the Loew's Grand on Dec. 15, 1939, brought Hollywood to Atlanta.

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