Seventy-five years after its release, Gone With The Wind is recognized as a Hollywood masterpiece. But when news first spread that Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War romance was to become a movie, David O. Selznick was accused of glorifying Southern racism. In the spring of 1938, Rabbi Robert Jacobs of Hoboken wrote to Rabbi Barnett Brickner, chairman…

“The Making of ‘Gone With the Wind,'” a major exhibition at The University of Texas at Austin which runs through January 4, boasts more than 300 items, including photographs, storyboards, audition footage, costumes and three original gowns worn by Vivien Leigh as the film’s protagonist, Scarlett O’Hara. Curated by Steve Wilson, author of The Making of…