Editing Gone with the Wind (novel) (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Women's Press Club skit.jpg|thumbnail|1940 Women's Press Club skit in which Mammy Congress puts Scarlett O'Budgett into her corset before going to a 'lection party.]]
''Gone with the Wind'' has appeared in many places and forms in popular culture:

===Books, television and more===
* A 1945 cartoon by World War II cartoonist [[Bill Mauldin]] shows an American soldier lying on the ground with Margaret Mitchell's bullet-riddled book. The caption reads: "Dear, Dear Miss Mitchell, You will probably think this is an awful funny letter to get from a soldier, but I was carrying your big book, ''Gone with the Wind'', under my shirt and a&nbsp; ..."<ref>Walker, M., ''Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone With the Wind'', p. 454.</ref>
* The novelist [[Vladimir Nabokov]] considered ''Gone with the Wind'' to be a "cheap novel", and in his ''[[Bend Sinister (novel)|Bend Sinister]]'' a book meant to resemble it is used as toilet paper.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Naiman |first1=Eric |title=Nabokov, Perversely |date=2011 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-6023-4 |pages=65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_utDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Norman |first1=Will |title=Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-53963-0 |pages=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1fcIAL8hls0C&pg=PA88 |language=en}}</ref>
* In the [[List of I Love Lucy episodes|season 3 episode]] of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', "Lucy Writes a Novel", which aired on April 5, 1954, "Lucy" ([[Lucille Ball]]) reads about a housewife who makes a fortune writing a novel in her spare time. Lucy writes a novel, which she titles ''Real Gone with the Wind''.<ref>[http://www.cbs.com/shows/i_love_lucy/video/?pid=rVDQ1hOS1fuL I Love Lucy-Lucy Writes a Novel]. Retrieved February 11, 2013</ref>
* ''Gone with the Wind'' is the book that [[S. E. Hinton]]'s runaway teenage characters, Ponyboy and Johnny, read while hiding from the law in the young adult novel ''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]'' (1967).<ref>Marylou Morano Kjelle (2008), ''S. E. Hinton: Author of The Outsiders'', Lake Book Mfg, p. 28. {{ISBN|978-0-7660-2720-6}}</ref>
* A film parody titled "[[Went with the Wind!]]" aired in a 1976 episode of ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0536579/ The Carol Burnett Show: Season 10, Episode 8]. Retrieved February 11, 2013.</ref> Burnett as Starlett descends a long staircase wearing a green curtain complete with hanging rod. The outfit, designed by [[Bob Mackie]], is displayed at the [[Smithsonian Institution]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Carol Burnett – We Just Can't Resist Her!|url=http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/05/carol-burnett-we-just-cant-resist-her/|access-date=August 19, 2011|date=May 14, 2009|archive-date=July 7, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707045257/http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/05/carol-burnett-we-just-cant-resist-her/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Come Back With the Wind is a parody novel of Gone with the Wind by British comic writer [[Les Dawson]], published in 1990. The story is set in a fictitious 20th century civil war between the North and the South of Britain. The main characters are Carla O’Mara and Red Butler, substituted for Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler from the original story. ({{ISBN|9780450559068}})
* ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' magazine created a parody of the novel "Groan with the Wind" (1991),<ref>"Groan with the Wind", Jack Davis and Stan Hart (January 1991), ''Mad'' #300.</ref> in which Ashley was renamed Ashtray and Rhett became Rhetch. It ends with Rhetch and Ashtray running off together.<ref name=autogenerated178 />
* A pictorial parody in which the enslaved people are white and the protagonists are black appeared in a 1995 issue of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' titled "Scarlett 'n the Hood".<ref>Young, E., ''Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War'', p. 281</ref>
* In a ''[[Mad TV|MADtv]]'' comedy sketch (2007),<ref>[[MADtv (season 12)]]</ref> "Slave Girl #8" introduces three alternative endings to the film. In one ending, Scarlett pursues Rhett wearing a [[jet pack]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCA6FHoWsvs ''Gone with the Wind'' (Alternate Endings)]. Retrieved September 19, 2012.</ref>
[[File:Curtain Dress.JPG|thumbnail|The "Curtain Dress" from ''The Carol Burnett Show'' on display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in 2009]]

===Collectibles===
On June 30, 1986, the 50th anniversary of the day ''Gone with the Wind'' went on sale, the U.S. Post Office issued a 1-cent stamp showing an image of Margaret Mitchell. The stamp was designed by Ronald Adair and was part of the U.S. Postal Service's [[Great Americans series]].<ref name=autogenerated80>[http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=4&cmd=2&eid=417&slide=14 ''Gone With the Wind'' Stamps]</ref>

On September 10, 1998, the U.S. Post Office issued a 32-cent stamp as part of its [[Celebrate the Century]] series, recalling various important events in the 20th century. The stamp, designed by Howard Paine, displays the book with its original [[dust jacket]], a white [[Magnolia]] blossom, and a [[hilt]] placed against a background of green velvet.<ref name=autogenerated80 />

To commemorate the 75th anniversary (2011) of the publication of ''Gone with the Wind'' in 1936, Scribner published a paperback edition featuring the book's original jacket art.<ref>Margaret Mitchell and Pat Conroy (1936), ''Gone With the Wind'', 75th Anniversary Edition (2011 paperback), New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-1-4516-3562-1}}</ref>

===The Windies===
The Windies are ardent ''Gone with the Wind'' fans who follow all the latest news and events surrounding the book and film. They gather periodically in costumes from the film or dressed as Margaret Mitchell. Atlanta, Georgia, is their meeting place.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/us/13windies.html "Frankly, My Dear, the 'Windies' Do Live for This"] Kim Severson, (April 13, 2011) ''The New York Times''. Retrieved May 2, 2013.</ref>