![]() ![]() The 2nd cabinet dealt mainly with a Stephens Mitchell lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over sequel rights and includes court documents and correspondence. One cabinet contained papers dealing with the foreign translations of the book, a Japanese musical production of Gone with the wind, plagiarism accusations from Susan Lawrence Davis, David Selznick musical rights, local museums and Margaret Mitchell namesakes, and fan mail. The collection consists of the literary estate papers from two filing cabinets of the offices of the Gone with the Wind Literary Rights, arranged and labeled as they were. Stephens Mitchell (1896-1983) was an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. Control of the literary rights was passed to Margaret Mitchell's brother Stephens, after John's death. After Margaret Mitchell's death in 1949, her husband, John Marsh (1895-1952), handled her estate. Copyright soon became an issue as demands for foreign translations, plays, musicals, and sequels began. It was written by Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) of Atlanta, Georgia and made into a movie in 1939 by producer David O. Gone with the Wind, a novel about Civil War Georgia, was published in 1936. ![]() Title: Gone with the Wind literary estate papersĥ3 document boxes, 2 half boxes, 4 cartons Gone with the Wind literary estate papers ![]()
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