Vivien Leigh, left, and Thomas Mitchell in a scene from "Gone With the Wind." "Gone With the Wind" will not be shown in the future by a Tennessee theater that decided it was "insensitive" to many in the local community. “The recent screening of ‘Gone With the Wind’ at the Orpheum on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, generated numerous comments,” Brett Batterson, president of the theater group, said Friday in a statement (via the New York Times). In an interview with the Commercial-Appeal, Batterson said the appropriateness of screening "Gone With the Wind" had been discussed "every year," but "the social media storm this year really brought it home." McDaniel's role of Mammy "is fundamentally a subservient role and is part of a film that is a Southern racial fantasy," Nama said.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 28, 2017 18:29 UTC