Posts Tagged ‘Sally Tippett Rains’

The film rights for the movie version of the epic-romance drama of the Civil War era were snapped up by producer David O. Selznick for $50,000 from the book’s author, Margaret Mitchell.  It has been documented that more tickets were sold for the 1939 movie than any other in history. Olivia de Havilland is the the only living principal cast member. Since the film’s release, lines from the dialogue have frequently been quoted from: actress Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen‘s “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies” to Clark Gable‘s “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”  Fans of the movie might give a damn ’bout our town’s Sally Tippett Rains, who has been so enchanted with the movie, that she has done something about it.  Not only has Sally written the book, “The Making of a Masterpiece, The True Story of Margaret Mitchell’s Classic Novel”, but she has also slated an exhibition, “Gone With The Wind: An American Icon,” bowing Oct. 15 and running through December at the St. Louis University Museum of Art. Furthermore, she has co-produced with Suzanne Corbett “Gateway to the Wind, a “Gone With The Wind” festival to be held at venues, including U.S. Grant Historical Site; White Haven and the Drury Inn Forest Park-St. Louis.  To top that, a “Gateway to the Wind” charity ball to benefit Rainbows for Kids will be held at Orlando Gardens on Watson Road, sponsored by American Airlines and Drury Hotels.  Belleville resident Greg Giese, who appeared in the movie, will participate as a featured speaker. For more info, go to www.GWTWbook.com.

Walgreen’s store in Festus has racked up the largest sale of pharmaceuticals among the nation’s 7,000 stores in the chain with a total of $2.5 million a month. . .A Lambert airport mole reports that officials with Delta Airlines paid a visit there last week (thinking about taking over concourse C?). . .Amy and Bill Komen have bowed Chill Frozen Yogurt on Wydown in Clayton.  You’ll delight in the $500,000 remake of the shop, that vends – among other flavors – blood orange – not to be missed. . .Sally Tippett Rains, wife of The Globe-Democrat.com’s Rob Rains, has collaborated with the Mo. Hist. Museum and SLU to present a “Gone with the Wind” project featuring a conference and display of memorabilia from the blockusting, 1939 epic movie.  The educational celebration of history and the movie will feature a conference Nov. 6-7.  Rains knows the movie’s history from a-z, including her meetings with siren Ann Rutherford and  interviews with: Greg Giese, who played the infant Bonnie, who now lives in Belleville, Ill.,; Cammie King, who portrayed Bonnie Blue Butler.  Rains is also planning a “Gone with the Wind Gala Ball” and a musical poduction, “Fiddle Dee Dee Follies”. . .KMOX radio’s John Carney confirmed that his contract is up on Sept. 1.  (Let’s presume the station is more infatuated with the $350,000 the Blues will pay to air its games.)  Meanwhile, Carney was spotted with two shiners on Saturday night at his World Trivia Championship at Temple Israel.  He explained that the first shiner came from his son; the second from a guest at the event, who accidentally poked him in the other eye. The championship benefited Carney’s Kids Foundation, which has so far raised $300,000 over 5 years. Said the radio entertainer of the amount raised, “It’s not exactly a Bob Costas thing, but I’m much taller than he and I can go on more rides at Six Flags”.