TV and Movies

[Mz iMac]

Never heard of this tv movie.   Has anyone ever seen it?

I found all 4 parts on YouTube which I downloaded.  Will watch over the weekend.

Scarlett is a 1994 American six-hour television miniseries loosely based on the 1991 book of the same name written by Alexandra Ripley as a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. The series was filmed at 53 locations in the United States and abroad, and stars Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara, Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler, and Sean Bean as Lord Richard Fenton. The miniseries was broadcast in four parts on CBS on November 13, 15, 16, and 17, 1994.

• In the long-awaited sequel to Gone With the Wind, Scarlett's flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah and Charleston, to England, and to Ireland, where she discovers her family's roots.
• Atlanta, 1873. It's another day (Melanie's funeral, in fact), and Scarlett is determined to win back Rhett (who's spending a lot of time with Belle Watling). First, she goes to Tara and spats with Sue Ellen over Tara. Then she goes to Charleston, presenting herself to Rhett's mother and friends, to Rhett's dismay. But when she's caught in a compromising position with Ashely, she retires to her mother's people in Savannah, and her overbearing grandfather Robelard, while Rhett courts a new bride. Scarlett also seeks out her O'Hara relatives and meets her cousin Colum, a priest (and gunrunner). And knowing them, she goes to Ireland. There she meets the handsome Earl of Fenton, who owns Ballyhara, the ancestral home of the O'Haras. And when Scarlett buys it from him, she becomes the financial and spiritual head of the family. But her newfound happiness is short-lived as disasters strike, and she must rely on Rhett's love for her to save her from the gallows.

  

[sunshine45]

oh yes, i was quite anxious to watch it when it was first broadcast.

i would not mind seeing it again.

[GenXmuse]

I watched it when it came out but don't remember too much about it.

[Love my grandkids]

I read the book years ago. Not a barn burner and not interested in the movie.

[AZfem]

Saw it when it originally aired & read the book. It was OK. Don't remember a lot about it. What I remember is Scarlet & Rhett are rarely together & she goes to Ireland. 

[Neetgal2]

Thanks for this info.  GONE WITH THE WIND, is my all time favorite.  First saw it in High School on a class history trip to Philadelphia!  In Atlanta, while visiting family saw Butterfly McQueen.  Seeing this movie taught me more than I would have ever learned in class.  I was hung up on the south and that period of time in history.  

I read the sequel but now forget it all but will watch.  

Recently this was a topic in one of my knitting groups and we were trading books and movies around.

[They Call Me MR Wilkes]

Scarlett, in my opinion, was a book that didn't need to be written. 

Margaret Mitchell herself said in numerous interviews that she would never consider writing a sequel as the GWTW story was concluded and done, as she saw it.

There was actually another sequel written in the 1970s!

MGM, owner of the GWTW book rights and the Mitchell estate jointly commissioned Anne Edwards to write the sequel.  Apparently,  there was some sort of litigation and the book was never published,  although the completed manuscript is said to still exist.

The estate wanted the book in order to maintain copyright security for the characters, as the copyright was due to expire.

Edwards has said her story remains completely in Georgia, focusing on Reconstruction and the aftermath of slavery.