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"Moonlight and Magnolias"- Reston Community Players

The Setting: Hollywood 1939.

Famed producer David O. Selznick is only three weeks into filming his latest historical epic, Gone with the Wind, but the screenplay just isn't working. He hires script doctor Ben Hecht to rewrite the script in five days.

Only one problem: Hecht has never read the novel! So, Selznick summons Hecht and director Victor Fleming from The Wizard of Oz to his office and locks the door. The three men spend five days locked in the producer's office re-enacting Margaret Mitchell's bestseller to craft a screenplay that will become one of the most successful films of all time.

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Inspired by true events, Moonlight and Magnolias is a wildly funny and winning story that illuminates the behind-the-scenes business of movie-making (and larger-than-life ego) during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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