Gone with the Wind based on Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name.
On February 29, 1940, "Gone with the Wind" won eight competitive Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 1939. It also won two honorary statuettes.
In 1959, "Ben-Hur," took home 11 Oscars. Beating the record of the champ, "Gone With the Wind," back in 1939, with 13 nominations, and winning 8 Oscars.
It wasn't based on a movie, And Then There Were Fewer was based on Agatha Christie's 1939 mystery novel And Then There Were None.
That would be Gone with the Wind (1939).
Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for their roles in Gone with the Wind (1939).
The movie The Wizard of Oz premiered on August 12, 1939, and was released to the general public on August 25, 1939.
The average price of a movie ticket in 1939 was 23 cents.
Return to Oz (1985) was nominated for Visual Effects, 49 years after The Wizard of Oz (1939) was nominated for 6 Oscars and won 2, for Score and Song.
Eight Lectures on Yoga was created in 1939.
No. The movie was made in 1939 by MGM. It is based on a book by Frank L. Baum (released in 1900).
The average price for a movie ticket in 1939 was 23 cents.
The average price of a movie ticket in 1929 was 35 cents.