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Rhett Butler (born 1828) is a fictional character in the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and in the 1939 film adaptation of the same name. It is one of Clark Gable's most recognizable and significant roles.
Rhett was born and raised in Charleston in the respectable Butler family. His father was a gentleman, and they didn't get along, leading to Rhett's dislike of the term "gentleman". His father at one point abandoned the family, and left Rhett's mother and sister on their own.
Rhett Butler, fictional character, the rakish third husband of Scarlett O’Hara in Margaret Mitchell ’s novel Gone with the Wind (1936). Though born a Southern gentleman, Butler is alienated from his family and consorts with Northerners during the American Civil War.
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At two critical points in the novel, Rhett abandons Scarlett to commit himself to the Old South. First, he leaves Scarlett in hostile territory and joins the Confederate army. Second, at the end of the novel he leaves Scarlett and goes in search of remnants of the Old South.
In particular, the name Rhett appears to have been taken from Edmund Rhett who was an immediate relative of Trenholm’s close friend and political ally, Robert Barnwell Rhett. One of the Rhetts even married a Trenholm.
May 18, 2009 · In his early twenties, he briefly tried his hand at car-racing, but wound up a chauffeur in Santa Barbara, where he fell in with the pioneer movie director Allan Dwan.
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