What 1939 epic film set during the American Civil War features 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'?

The 1939 epic film set during the American Civil War and featuring “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn” is Gone with the Wind. The film follows Scarlett O’Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, as war and Reconstruction transform her life and the plantation society she inhabits.

Clark Gable plays Rhett Butler, Scarlett’s famously blunt and complicated counterpart. The quoted line is spoken by Rhett near the film’s ending, during his final rejection of Scarlett. It became one of Hollywood’s best-known movie quotations, though the film’s dialogue and depiction of the Old South have long been criticized for romanticizing slavery and presenting racist stereotypes.

Gone with the Wind was adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel. Victor Fleming is credited as director, after substantial work by other filmmakers during production. The film won eight competitive Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress, and remains a major landmark of classic American cinema despite its deeply contested historical framing.