75 years ago today, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh took the screen in the Academy Award-winning film Gone With the Wind, based on Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel. The movie is full of iconic, oft-quoted lines, but the most famous line almost didn't make it into the film, according to Today. Rhett Butler's "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" was nearly cut because it didn't meet the industry's standards at the time. "It is my contention that this word as used in the picture is not an oath or a curse. The worst that could be said of it is that its a vulgarism," the movie's producer, David O. Selznick, argued.
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