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'Gone With the Wind' Documentary to Feature Kennesaw Mountain

National film company Leva Film Works will shoot scenes in Marietta for a documentary that will be included in the 75th anniversary edition DVD of "Gone With the Wind."

National film company Leva Film Works will shoot scenes in Marietta and Kennesaw on Memorial Day weekend for a documentary that will be included in the 75th anniversary edition DVD of Gone With the Wind.

The documentary will feature the Root House Museum and Garden, Zion Church Museum, Brumby Hall, Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta Square and Glover Park, and Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

The documentary will also include interviews with Marietta's Gone With the Wind Museum director Connie Sutherland, who will serve as location consultant for shoot.

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The Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum has been a part of the Square since 2003 when it opened in the historic Old Thomas Warehouse Building. The museum has about 10,000 visitors a year.

The museum has an extensive collection provided by Dr. Christopher Sullivan, which is divided into three tiers. The first tier focuses on author Margaret Mitchell and the book. The second tier focuses on the film and the actors. The third tier takes a look at the marketing of Gone with the Wind.

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The museum celebrated its 10th anniversary in April with Scarlett on the Square. Special guests included actress Anne Jeffreys, author Anne Edwards, cast members Patrick Curtis, Greg Giese and Mickey Kuhn, artist Joseph Yakovetic, and grandson of the technical advisor on the set of Gone With the Wind Wilbur Kurtz III.

Last year's Marietta Gone With the Wind celebration featured appearances by Mickey Kuhn, who played 7-year-old Beau Wilkes; Patrick Curtis, who played baby Beau; and Morgan Brittany, who played Vivien Leigh/Scarlett in The Scarlett O'Hara War.

The anniversary DVD will be released in 2014.

Leva Film Works visited Marietta in 2009 to video festivities including the Virginia reel that were part of the 70th anniversary of Gone With the Wind, which still holds the top spot at the box office when allowing for inflation.

More Filming in Cobb

Anchorman: The Legend Continues filmed a scene at the Marietta Middle School gym in April.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 filmed scenes on Marietta Square inside and in front of the Earl Smith Strand Theatre in April.

Hamlet and Hutch, starring Burt Reynolds, Terri Vaughn (The Steve Harvey Show) and Cassi Davis (Tyler Perry's House of Payne), filmed at K. Mike Whittle Unique Floral Designs, 156 Church St, NE. The First Baptist Church of Marietta served as basecamp.

The Superior Courthouse was the . 

Scenes for the film The Watch were shot in and around Marietta Square. Check out photos and video from the set of The Watch.

Let It Shine filmed in the Square and at the Strand Theatre.


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