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Interview with Pamela Roberts American Masters

Premiered April 01, 2012

Interview with Pamela Roberts

The director of Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel talks about her creative process

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The director of Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel talks about her creative process

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Interview with Pamela Roberts

Scholars and devoted readers of Margaret Mitchell's classic novel have been argue

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Is Gone With The Wind Literature?

Mitchell received news of the prize by phone and hid from the press

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Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize Night

Premieres nationally Monday, April 2 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings)

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Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel

The most important person in Margaret Mitchell's life was her mother Maybelle

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Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, Southern Suffragist

Pat Conroy tells a poignant story of listening to his mother read Gone With the Wind

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Pat Conroy: My Mother and Gone With The Wind

Margaret Mitchell was profoundly influenced by a violent race riot

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The Atlanta Race Riot 1906

An unprecedented crowd turned out for opening night of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta

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The Grand Premiere

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Steve Brodner sketches Cab Calloway Part 1

Stever Brodner creates a sketch of Cab to "Minnie The Moocher" with a surprise at the end

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Steve Brodner sketches Cab Calloway Part 2

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