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Robert and his wife Salina named the house The Cedars. They refurbished the interior and added a boxwood garden to the rear of the mansion. In they sold the home to Nathanial S. Turner was an affluent cotton broker who owned Covington Mills. The home eventually acquired a new name, Whitehall.

He added the third floor with the dormer windows, an expanded colonnade, and a second-floor. We definitely are seeing the story through a different lens now than then. Read my original post about the sets to learn about how the movie was a segregated set and they tried to bar Hattie McDaniel from attending the Oscars to accept her Academy Award.

I recently had the chance to watch the classic on the big screen at my local theater. It was amazing to see the sets and costumes the way they were intended, and larger than life. If you ever have the opportunity to view it that way, I highly recommend it. Note: There are Amazon affiliate links in this post that may earn me commission. This was not far from Atlanta. They did create part of a real front porch facade for the close-up scenes at Twelve Oaks, but the windows and vines, etc, were painted on.

The front door led directly into Stage 11 where the interior sets had been built. One of the baths includes a very rare antique luxury shower that is one of the only ones in the world. Covington, 35 miles from Atlanta, is known as the Hollywood of the South.

More than movies and TV shows have been filmed in and around there. Master Bathroom. The family refurbished the interior and added a boxwood garden to the rear of the mansion. In they sold the home to Nathanial S. Turner, a cotton broker who owned Covington Mills. The home eventually acquired a new name, Whitehall. However, the home fell into disrepair in the s. Master Bedroom. Most of Steven Spielberg 's E.

You'll probably recognise it as the mansion seen before the titles of classic David O Selznick productions. The building itself is heavily disguised with a matte painting a painting on glass placed in front of the camera, used before effects could be achieved with CGI , but the formal lawns, and the path with its central hedge, remain virtually unchanged. Vivien Leigh supposedly arrived during filming and instantly secured the part.

Well it makes a good story, and this is Hollywood, so why not print the legend? What went up in flames in the scene was the old Selznick backlot, in a massive space-clearing operation.