Moonlight and Magnolias
Directed by Douglas Sprigg The biggest movie of all time is in trouble before it’s even released. Shooting starts in a week, and you have no script. So what’s a legendary producer to do? If you are David O. Selznick, and your movie is Gone with the Wind, you hire the best director and screenwriter of your day and lock yourself in a room with them for five straight days. Then you and the director proceed to act out the entire story, from burnin’ buildings to birthin’ babies and beyond. And you do it all on self-imposed diet of peanuts and bananas. Ron Hutchinson’s fabulous farce is a behind-the-scenes, off-the-wall comedy that proves in Hollywood, the ends always justify the means.
