<P> MacAdams writes, "It is impossible to determine exactly how much Hecht scripted...In the official credits filed with the Screen Writers Guild, Sidney Howard was of course awarded the sole screen credit, but four other writers were appended...Jo Swerling for contributing to the treatment, Oliver H.P. Garrett and Barbara Keon to screenplay construction, and Hecht, to dialogue ..." </P> <P> Principal photography began January 26, 1939, and ended on July 1, with post-production work continuing until November 11, 1939 . Director George Cukor, with whom Selznick had a long working relationship, and who had spent almost two years in pre-production on Gone with the Wind, was replaced after less than three weeks of shooting . Selznick and Cukor had already disagreed over the pace of filming and the script, but other explanations put Cukor's departure down to Gable's discomfort at working with him . Emanuel Levy, Cukor's biographer, claimed that Clark Gable had worked Hollywood's gay circuit as a hustler and that Cukor knew of his past, so Gable used his influence to have him discharged . Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland learned of Cukor's firing on the day the Atlanta bazaar scene was filmed, and the pair went to Selznick's office in full costume and implored him to change his mind . Victor Fleming, who was directing The Wizard of Oz, was called in from MGM to complete the picture, although Cukor continued privately to coach Leigh and De Havilland . Another MGM director, Sam Wood, worked for two weeks in May when Fleming temporarily left the production due to exhaustion . Although some of Cukor's scenes were later reshot, Selznick estimated that "three solid reels" of his work remained in the picture . As of the end of principal photography, Cukor had undertaken eighteen days of filming, Fleming ninety - three, and Wood twenty - four . </P> <P> Cinematographer Lee Garmes began the production, but on March 11, 1939--after a month of shooting footage that Selznick and his associates regarded as "too dark"--was replaced with Ernest Haller, working with Technicolor cinematographer Ray Rennahan . Garmes completed the first third of the film--mostly everything prior to Melanie having the baby--but did not receive a credit . Most of the filming was done on "the back forty" of Selznick International with all the location scenes being photographed in California, mostly in Los Angeles County or neighboring Ventura County . Tara, the fictional Southern plantation house, existed only as a plywood and papier - mâché facade built on the Selznick studio lot . For the burning of Atlanta, new false facades were built in front of the Selznick backlot's many old abandoned sets, and Selznick himself operated the controls for the explosives that burned them down . Sources at the time put the estimated production costs at $3.85 million, making it the second most expensive film made up to that point, with only Ben - Hur (1925) having cost more . </P> <P> Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined Selznick $5,000 for using the word "damn" in Butler's exit line, in fact the Motion Picture Association board passed an amendment to the Production Code on November 1, 1939, that forbade use of the words "hell" or "damn" except when their use "shall be essential and required for portrayal, in proper historical context, of any scene or dialogue based upon historical fact or folklore...or a quotation from a literary work, provided that no such use shall be permitted which is intrinsically objectionable or offends good taste ." With that amendment, the Production Code Administration had no further objection to Rhett's closing line . </P>

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