gone with the wind

HBO Max has added yet another informative introduction to one of its titles. When “Blazing Saddles” hit the network’s new platform on July 28, the Mel Brooks film kicks off not with its opening sequence, but rather an introduction by University of Chicago professor and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart. The intro, in which the “Silent …

Olivia de Havilland was celebrated for her role in “Gone With the Wind” — but when it came to the relationship she had with her sister, actress Joan Fontaine, she was also gone with the kin. See, the Hollywood icon who portrayed sweet, doomed Melanie was actually a fighter. De Havilland, who died Sunday just …

Hollywood icon Olivia de Havilland — the Oscar-winning star of classics including “Gone With the Wind” and “The Adventures of Robin Hood” — died Sunday, according to her rep. She was 104. The two-time Academy Award-winning actress died peacefully from natural causes at the home in her home in Paris, France where she had lived …

“Gone With the Wind” is no longer gone from HBO Max, having been restored to the streaming service’s library with a new prologue about the film’s problematic themes and depictionof the antebellum South. Jacqueline Stewart, host of TCM’s “Silent Sunday Nights” and a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University …

Sandra Dewey, who heads up business operations for WarnerMedia including its newly-launched VOD platform HBO Max, logged in to the Cannes virtual Marche today to offer an update on the streamer’s operations since it went online. One of the biggest headlines post-launch has been around “Gone With The Wind,” the 1939 epic that was pulled …

HBO Max is crafting a “slow and careful” return for “Gone With the Wind” to the streaming service. But actress Queen Latifah is over it already. “Let ‘Gone With the Wind’ be gone with the wind,” the award-winning actress told The Associated Press in a recent interview. HBO Max has been under fire since it …

“Gone with the Wind” is coming back. HBO Max will again start streaming the controversial slavery-era movie — with a lecture about the racial themes that first got it pulled, according to the scholar providing the intro. “I will provide an introduction placing the film in its multiple historical contexts,” cinema professor Jacqueline Stewart wrote …

UPDATE: An HBO Max spokesperson says “Gone With the Wind” will eventually return to the platform with a discussion about its historical context and a denouncement of its racist depictions. On Tuesday, HBO Max removed the 1939 film from its library in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd. “’Gone With The …