In mourning: Scarlett broods while Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) woos. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
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Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind was published 75 years ago this month. A 1936 promotional poster for the book shows heroine Scarlett O'Hara running through the streets as Atlanta burns. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Dressed To Kill: Charlize Theron is a pointedly wicked Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman. Universal Pictures hide caption
Madalena (Sonia Guedes), a baker in the fictional community of Jotuomba in Brazil's Vale do Paraiba, makes the journey each day from her impoverished rural town to the local coffee shop to sell her bread. FilmMovement hide caption
Out Of The Bag: Dino the titular feline eyes the dark streets of Paris from a perch atop Notre Dame Cathedral. GKids hide caption
Participants at the 2010 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, San Francisco, as seen in Pink Ribbons, Inc. Ravida Din/First Run Features hide caption
Emmanuelle Riva co-stars in the French film Amour, which won the festival's Palme d'Or. La Festival de Cannes hide caption
Kitty Shortt spells a word correctly during the third round of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee yesterday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Queen Elizabeth II arrives for an event with The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, in London on Wednesday. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption