It was one of the most popular movies ever made and is forever linked to the state of Georgia. Gone With the Wind producer David O. Selznick had worried that Civil War movies usually bombed at the box office, and making the movie itself had been a mammoth undertaking. Selznick interviewed 1400 actors and conducted […]

She gave the performance of a lifetime in just her third film—and won an Oscar at 27. Joanne Woodward was born in Thomasville and grew up there and in Marietta. She loved movies, and in 1939 she and her mother attended the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind. Woodward went to Louisiana State University […]

Star Trek only ran three years, but you can’t kill it with a phaser. Its characters are immortal as well. They have lived long, and prospered. One of them was DeForest Kelley, born in Atlanta in 1920 and a graduate of Decatur Boys High in 1938. After a hitch in the Army Air Corps in […]

You may not have known his name, but you couldn’t miss his voice, especially when he played a small cartoon bear — and that was just one of over 150 movies and TV shows Sterling Holloway did. Holloway was born in 1905 in Cedartown. He attended the Georgia Military Academy before moving on to New […]

It is still one of the most popular films ever made, and its romanticized view of the Old South became firmly established in the popular imagination. Gone with the Wind was based on Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the film’s completion was miraculous in itself. It took 140 days, 5 directors, and 13 writers—including […]

Known affectionately as the “Mouth of the South, he created a TV and sports empire that dramatically altered the media landscape. Robert Edward “Ted” Turner was born in Cincinnati in 1938. When he was nine, his family moved to Savannah. Turner took over his father’s billboard company after his father’s suicide and began expanding the […]

Its beautiful campus has hosted more than twenty movies and TV shows. It opened in 1889 as the Decatur Female Seminary. As Agnes Scott College, it’s become a preeminent institution of women’s higher education. In 1888, Frank Gaines became pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian Church. With church support, he founded the seminary the next year […]

Vocabulary – DeForest Kelley Phaser Noun A fictional weapon used in science fiction movies. The gun uses lasers and can be set to kill, injure, or stun the enemy. Immortal Adjective Never dying, will be remembered for a long time. Prospered Verb To be successful Hitch Noun a period of time spent in military service […]

Vocabulary – Burt Reynolds Draw Verb to pull something, or lead or pull somebody, in a particular direction, especially toward or away from something Box Office Noun the place where tickets are bought for entertainments such as movies, plays, or concerts, ticket sales for a theatrical or cinematic entertainment, or the income from these sales […]

Vocabulary – WAGA Premieres on Georgia Television Broadcasting Comparatively Adverb In comparison with something else Audience Noun People watching or listening to a broadcast Commercial Adjective Done for profit. Done with the goal of making money Studios Noun a room or building equipped for making movies, television or radio productions, or musical recordings Literally Adverb […]