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Category:
Biography
Publisher: ThomasMax Publishing
ISBN-10: 0984262687
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 516
Copyright: 2011
ISBN-13: 9780984262687
Price: $9.99 (eBook)
Sue's life from plantation through her teaching and newspaper careers and 6 months in Hollywood telling David Selznick how to properly portray the South, from accents to agriculture.
Sue Myrick, country born, grew up to become the leader of society in Macon, GA. She met and became best friends with Margaret Mitchell, who strongly recommended her to David Selznick to help with Southern customs and accents for Gone With The Wind. The book is based on her own writings--letters to Mitchell, her diary kept while preparing to go and while in Hollywood, and her newspaper columns. She wrote for The Macon Telegraph for 50 yuears, winning numerous awards for her work. She was invited to the White House with other outstanding newspaper women.
This hardback is available on order from bookstores or from the author at P. O. Box 33536, Decatur, GA 30033. Cost, 29.95 + $5.00 S & H. (It weights almost 2 pounds!)
Susan Myrick was a close friend to Margaret Mitchell and chosen by MGM to be technical consultant for "Southern authenticity" for the making of Mitchell's classic novel into a movie. This book, authored by Myrick's niece, reveals the Susan Myrick that she hid from the world and recorded only in her diary. You will feel her anguish at the loss of love. You will feel her own fear at the prospect of having to face down David Selznick over the realities of the South’s customs, agriculture, and other matters. You will also get a look into the private letters she wrote Peggy Mitchell, and learn about her ever-changing opinions of Hollywood personalities. And learn about the behind the scenes activities on the GWTW set.
Excerpt
The debate (between Sue Myrick and David Selznick) over a cotton chopping scene began in January 1939 when Selznick asked Sue to look at a field to see if it would be appropriate to use as a cotton field. He wanted slaves to be chopping cotton when Gerald O'Hara rode over Tara on the day before the barbecue at Twleve Oaks--the day The War Between The States began, in Mid-April. Sue argued with Selznick for months--you do not chop cotton in North Georgia in April, she told him, over and over...until June 1939, before he finally relented and did not include the mid-april cotton copping scene.
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