GONE WITH THE WIND

Original 1989 50th Anniversary Re-Release British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1939 Victor Fleming Classic Romance GONE WITH THE WIND, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell and starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell, Butterfly McQueen, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond, Ona Munson, Yakima Canutt, Harry Davenport, Carroll Nye, Laura Hope Crews, Alicia Rhett, Barbara O’Neil and Marcella Martin.

The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman’s destructive “March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.

Poster art by Howard Terpning. Howard Terpning was born November 5, 1927, in Oak Park, Illinois. He is an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of Native Americans. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the American Academy of Art in Chicago. In 1962, he began working as a freelance artist creating magazine covers, story illustrations and advertising art for publications such as Reader’s Digest, Time and Newsweek.
In addition Terpning completed over 80 movie posters starting with The Guns of Navarone in 1961. Other examples include Cleopatra, Doctor Zhivago, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles, and the 1967 re-release of Gone with the Wind.

The poster is in very good folded condition with corner pinholes and a small hole at the left cross fold.