Fiddle-Dee-Dee: A Gone with the Wind Podcast

Welcome to what is probably my most subjective episode. I go through all the dresses in the film adaptation and place them all into tiers!

Final tier list (spoilers!):

https://imgur.com/a/A7MtGUz

Make your own!:

https://tiermaker.com/create/gone-with-the-wind-dresses-1039319-2

Summary:

Conditions worsen in the hospital as the fighting draws near. Aunt Pittypat throws a dinner party where they eat their last chicken. Atlanta is suddenly bombarded with shells. Aunt Pittypat refugees to Macon, but Scarlett stays with Melanie, who is now heavily pregnant. Scarlett learns that her sister is ill with typhoid and she cannot go home to Tara. Rhett asks Scarlett to become his mistress.

Summary:

Scarlett and Melanie anxiously await casualty lists after the Battle of Gettysburg. Ashley comes to Atlanta during his Christmas furlough and shares a kiss with Scarlett prior to departure. Scarlett is shocked to learn that Melanie is pregnant. Ashley is taken prisoner by the Yankees and refuses an opportunity to be released.

Gone with the Wind has enjoyed many stage adaptations over the years, from 1966 all the way to 2025. This episode discusses each show's unique history, creative liberties and varying degrees of success.

LINKS!!! (So you can see what I'm talking about)

1966 play and 1970 musical "Scarlett" (Japan):

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1270184001294910&set=pcb.23909215045377956

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/25/kay-brown-barrett-first-victim-scarlett-fever

1972/1976 "Scarlett" adaptation (UK, USA):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpjQd37byiM

https://neptsdepths.blogspot.com/2012/09/blown-away.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeAAya6i_UI&list=PLPXncXaHAlDxHw0NFoByJ89U_aoDAnIfY&index=90&t=403s

1977-2013 Takarazuka all-female revue (Japan):

https://genderedjapan.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/takarazuka-revue-does-gone-with-the-wind/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2UJ6suOlM

2003/2015 musical (France, South Korea):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lno8r_UqvKM&list=PLPXncXaHAlDxHw0NFoByJ89U_aoDAnIfY&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV1JDxSwluM&list=PLPXncXaHAlDxHw0NFoByJ89U_aoDAnIfY&index=4

2008 musical (UK):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm6l_eSa5Wc

2013 RMTC play (Canada):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEV54lzb-FY

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/2012/03/09/gone-with-the-wind-is-linchpin-production-for-royal-manitoba-theatre-centres-2012-13-season

2025 musical (Greece):

https://www.instagram.com/p/DI3bkyGs5BE/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJYp-BvoAqa/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJE6CyhIE44/?img_index=1

Summary:

Scarlett secretly reads Ashley's letters to Melanie. Rhett goes out of his way to charm Atlanta as a dashing blockader, only to immediately ostracize himself when it no longer amuses him. Rhett gifts Scarlett a green bonnet from Paris and encourages her to stop wearing mourning. Belle Watling gives Melanie money for the hospital. Scarlett discovers that Rhett consorts with prostitutes.

Summary:

Scarlett arrives in Atlanta with Wade and Prissy. She begins nursing in the hospital, but is still restricted by her widowhood from attending social functions. By chance, Scarlett attends a charity bazaar with Melanie and Aunt Pittypat. Scarlett becomes reacquainted with Rhett Butler at the bazaar and, scandalously, dances with him. Gerald travels to Atlanta to bring her home. Rhett gets Gerald drunk during a game of poker, cleaning him out of all his money. Scarlett blackmails her father into letting her stay.

Summary:

Mammy helps Scarlett prepare for the barbecue and instructs her on how a proper lady should behave. Scarlett flirts with every man present at the barbecue in the hopes of attracting Ashley, but to no avail. Rhett Butler infuriates the guests by insisting that the South will be licked in a month. Scarlett confesses her love to Ashley and flies into a rage at his rejection, bringing her face to face with Rhett. Scarlett and Charles become engaged and are married within two weeks. Charles dies in camp and Scarlett becomes a widow and mother in quick succession. Ellen sends a depressed Scarlett to Atlanta with Wade.

Though Margaret Mitchell never penned a sequel to her Pulitzer-winning novel (nor any other novel at all), plenty of her childhood writings have survived and been published in the years following her death. What did the author feel compelled to write about as a young girl and, later, journalist? Do any elements in these stories mimic Gone with the Wind?

Welcome to the first episode of GWTW Readalong, a new series in which I will analyze the book chronologically. Each episode will tackle a few chapters at a time. Feel free to read along with me and form your own takes!

In this episode, Scarlett finds out from the Tarletons that Ashley is going to marry Melanie, Scarlett chats with Gerald about Ashley's upcoming nuptials, Gerald buys Dilcey and Prissy from John Wilkes, we learn the history of Ellen and Gerald, the O'Haras have prayer time and Scarlett forms a plan to ensnare Ashley the next day at the barbecue.

On September 9, 1939, Gone with the Wind was first previewed in Riverside, California. Luckily for us, the audience's questionnaires have all been digitally archived for our perusal. This episode discusses the audience's initial reaction to the then-unfinished film, as well as various deleted scenes that have been uncovered over the years.