剧情简介
美国南北战争前夕,南方农场塔拉庄园的千金斯嘉丽(费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰)爱上了另一个农场主的儿子艾希礼(莱斯利·霍华德 Leslie Howard 饰),遭到了拒绝,为了报复,她嫁给了自己不爱的男人,艾希礼妻子梅兰(奥利维娅·德哈维兰 Olivia de Havilland 饰)的弟弟查尔斯。
战争期间,斯嘉丽成为寡妇,失去母亲,挑起生活的重担, 不再是当初的千金小姐;战争结束后,她又两度为人妻,嫁给了爱她多年的投机商人瑞德(克拉克·盖博 Clark Gable 饰)。
然而,纵使经历了生活的艰苦,斯嘉丽对艾希礼的感情仍然没有改变。艾希礼妻子梅兰的去世,给了斯嘉丽一个机会,一边是深爱自己的丈夫瑞德,一边是心心念念多年的艾希礼?斯嘉丽会给自己怎样一个不一样的明天?
— It seems we’ve been at cross purposes, doesn’t it. But it’s no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you. A little girl again, before the war and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
— Oh, Rhett! Rhett, please don’t say that. I am so sorry, I’m so sorry for everything.
— My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying, “I’m sorry,” all the past can be corrected.
— 似乎我们都走在岔路上了,但现在没有用了,有宝尼在,我们可能会快乐,我会把她当做是你,一个小女孩,在战争和穷困还没有使你无情之前,她很像你,而我宠坏了她。就像我要宠坏你一样。但当她死去时,她带走了一切。
— 瑞德,瑞德,不要说了。我很抱歉,为所有一切抱歉。
— 亲爱的,你真是个小孩子,你认为说声对不起,过去的一切就可挽回吗?