Selznick International Pictures had served as the production company forRebecca (1940), and Selznick had loaned Hitchcock out to Walter Wanger Productions for this film." Alice replied: "That's what I'm afraid of."Greta's pushy socialite mother, Mrs.Racine Gibson (Pat Sturges), hosted a fancy dinner party, and although Greta attended (and sat at the head of the table across from her mother at the other end), she was still in mourning for the loss of her friend Dan.A concerned Legolas realized hat Tauriel had left the Elven kingdom to save Kili from dying of his poison-arrow wound (and he followed after her).Margaret: We both might face the fact that neither of us have proved o be a very great success as a wife.Many comparisons were made between the languorously-pacedGiantandGone With the Wind (1939)from 17 years earlier: both were epics of the South with a strong male and female character (Hudson - Rhett Butler, and Taylor - Scarlett O'Hara), a central ranch or plantation (Reata and Tara), and adapted from a novel by a female author (Ferber and Margaret Mitchell).