# Moonlight and Magnolias

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 8 May 2024  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/moonlight-and-magnolias/

Adelaide Repertory Theatre presents Moonlight and MagnoliasWritten by Ron HutchinsonDirected by Harry Dewar In June at the Arts Theatre find out how the film ‘Gone with the Wind‘ was saved from being gone with the wind! Hollywood, February 1939: Acclaimed movie producer David O. Selznick has a problem: his massively hyped production of “Gone With The Wind”…

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Adelaide Repertory Theatre presents   
**Moonlight and Magnolias**  
Written by Ron Hutchinson  
Directed by Harry Dewar

**In June at the Arts Theatre find out how the film ‘Gone with the Wind**‘** was saved from being gone with the wind!**

Hollywood, February 1939: Acclaimed movie producer David O. Selznick has a problem: his massively hyped production of “Gone With The Wind” is bleeding big money, the script is unfilmable, he has fired the director and the production has been shut down. Disaster looms! He needs a new script and a new director now!

![Three men in formal attire examine a golden object during an indoor scene.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/8161/20240203-IMGL3314-Edit.jpeg)

With renowned screenwriter Ben Hecht (who hasn’t read the book) and celebrated director Victor Fleming (already up to his eyeballs in directing “The Wizard of Oz”), and a diet of bananas and peanuts, he locks the group in his office for five days to create a screenplay that will save the film. Filming the burning of Atlanta is easier than this!

“It’s a blend of lively nonsense and a tribute to the golden years of Hollywood moving making, with over-sized egos and larger than life personalities,” explains director Harry Dewar. “Based loosely on the real difficulties that the film faced in 1939, it’s an insight into what might have happened to get one of the greatest movies ever made up onto the screen.”

**Cast**: Adam Schultz as “David O Selznick”, Scott Battersby as “Victor Fleming”, Terry Crowe as “Ben Hecht” and Rebecca Gardiner as “Miss Poppenguhl”

Frankly my dears, you must see this play!!

![Four men in period clothing perform a comedic scene in a domestic interior setting with framed artwork on the walls.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/8162/20240203-IMGL3322-Edit.jpeg)

![Theatre poster for "Moonlight and Magnolias" featuring a large moon, pink magnolia flowers, and vintage film strip imagery against a night sky.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/8159/02Moonlight-CLEAN.jpg)