A Burning Passion The Margaret Mitchell Story

Audience Score
80
A Burning Passion The Margaret Mitchell Story
NR 1 hr 35 minDrama, TV Movie
Margaret Mitchell portrayed as rebellious and spirited as Scarlett OHara grows up in a comfortably middleclass Atlanta home absorbing her grandmothers stories of the Civil War and the burning of their city by the Yankees Young Peggy as she likes to be called goes to Smith College in Massachusetts and hates it Back in Atlanta her mildly scandalous reputation is made more so by her first marriage to Red Upshaw a bootlegging rake Later her second husband encourages her to expand her writing talents beyond feature articles for The Atlanta Journal Her first and only novel becomes one of the bestselling books of all time
DirectorLarry Peerce
WriterRobert Hamilton