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Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) is a young and spoiled woman growing up on Tara, a sprawling Georgian plantation during the days preceding the Civil War. Certainly the beauty of any ball, Scarlett can't manage to find a husband while nearly everyone other woman around her doesn't share that dilemma.

Her biggest problem is that she loves Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), a dashing young army captain who's just announced his engagement to her selfless cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Crushed, she throws a tantrum, an event that Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), a handsome adventurer and ladies man, can't help but comment upon. The two immediately believe that they dislike each other, but a few romantic sparks lay the groundwork for later fireworks.

The Civil War then breaks out and Scarlett, who married Melanie's brother, Charles (Rand Brooks), in an attempt to make Ashley jealous, learns that her new husband has died. Feeling no remorse since she didn't love him, Scarlett goes off to Atlanta to stay with her Aunt Pittypat (Laura Hope Crews). Scarlett's shrewd Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), however, knows that the young lady is really going just to be there when Ashley returns home on leave.

As the war effort worsens and the yanks approach Atlanta, nearly everyone flees, leaving Scarlett and her young slave, Prissy (Butterfly McQueen), to care for Melanie who's now bedridden in the later stages of pregnancy. Once the war has ended, Scarlett returns to Tara and later marries her sister's fiancé, Frank Kennedy (Carroll Nye), a business man who saves the decimated plantation from disclosure.

He's later killed, however, and Scarlett and Rhett eventually get married and have a daughter. Her unresolved love for Ashley, however, drives a wedge between her and Rhett. A series of unexpected and tragic events then follows that tests Scarlett's love and overall resolve.