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''Gone With the Wind'' Ticket

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''Gone With the Wind'' Ticket
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''Gone With the Wind'' movie premiere ticket, datelined 15 December 1939, Loew's Grand Theatre, Atlanta, GA. Seating on partial ticket marked ''Center X 105.'' The epic Civil War-set romantic drama, based on the Margaret Mitchell novel and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, on 15 December 1939 as the climax of three days of festivities hosted by Atlanta's mayor which consisted of a parade of limousines featuring the film's stars, receptions, thousands of Confederate flags, false antebellum fronts on stores and homes, and a costume ball. More than 300,000 people attended the festivities, at which the Governor of Georgia declared December 15th a state holiday. President Jimmy Carter would later recall the movie's premiere as ''the biggest event to happen in the South in my lifetime.'' From December 1939-June 1940, ''Gone With the Wind'' played only advance-ticket road show engagements at a limited number of theaters, before it went into general release in 1941. The film went on to become the most successful movie of all time. Partial ticket measures 3.75'' x 2.25''. Near fine condition with bright gilt edging.