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Margaret Mitchell just missed seeing this movie

posted 18 years ago by zarnekau-1
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Margaret Mitchell was on her way to the Peachtree Arts Theater in Atlanta, GA, to see "A Canterbury Tale" when she was struck by a speeding car on August 11, 1949. Margaret died of her injuries five days later, on August 16. She and her husband, John Marsh, often visited the Peachtree Arts Theater, since it was right in their Ansley Park neighborhood where they rented a two-bedroom apartment. The theater, which stood at the corner of 13th and Peachtree Streets in Midtown, has since been torn down. Just a footnote, though, to this wonderful Powell/Pressburger film.

[–] ant_sushi 14 years ago

That's interesting. I didn't know that. Dillinger was gunned down after seeing --well I forget which movie now. I wonder if there are other uh, fatal consequences with a connection to seeing a movie.

[–] Steve Crook 14 years ago

But Margaret Mitchell hadn't managed to see it. She was run over on her way to the Peachtree Arts Theater.

But you could expand it to other people who died after seeing a film or when they were on their way to see a film.

Dillinger had been watching Manhattan Melodrama.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theater in Dallas. That led to his death.

President Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre. Does that count?

Steve

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[–] froberts73 14 years ago

This is nasty, but too bad it wasn't Mel Gibson, instead. The anti-Semitic, alcoholic, wife beater, etc. had a lot of us fooled with "Passion Of the Christ."

The only thing Gibson is passionate about - is Gibson.

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 13 years ago

Sad story about Margaret Mitchell but apt I'm sure as not every pilgrim would have successfuly completed the trail.

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