Moonlight and Magnolias

''There''s your first problem. No Civil War movie ever made a dime. Or ever will.''

Hollywood, 1939: semi-independent mogul David O.Selznick has just shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history - his megabudget version of Margaret Mitchell''s bestselling novel Gone with the Wind - scrapping the original script and sacking the director in the process.

Determined to produce a...