Motion Picture Starring: GONE WITH THE WIND is a novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell (q.v.), published in 1936. It won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and became one of the best-selling novels in history. David Selznick's film version (1939), directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh, is often called the most popular motion picture ever made.
Captain from Castile, product of three years' study of Spanish source material dealing with the conquest of Mexico, was sold in 1944, for motion picture production, before publication. It was translated into 18 languages, including Pakistani and Turkish. Prince of Foxes, a sweeping Renaissance tapestry, published in 1947, also became a motion picture. The King's Cavalier (1950) and Lord Vanity (1953), the latter also sold to the motion pictures, were likewise immensely popular.
vacation from Tennessee to Washington, D.C., he was disgruntled at his inability to find even a single motor inn with sanitary, comfortable accommodations suitable for a vacationing family. Soon afterward, Wilson opened his own hotel just outside Memphis. Catering to vacationing families, Wilson called his new establishment the Holiday Inn, after the 1942 motion picture starring Bing Crosby.
In sharp contrast to other motor inns of the early 1950s, the Holiday Inn included ample parking, televisions, phones, a swimming pool for guests, and soft drink dispensers. Over the next two years, Wilson built three more hotels and, with an entrepreneur named Wallace Johnson, began franchising Holiday Inns nationwide.
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