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Article: THE GREATEST LOVE STORY ON FILM.(FRONT)(THE TALK)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- February 12, 2004
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Byline: Doug Moe
IN HONOR of Valentine's Day this weekend, a magazine in the United Kingdom has done a poll to name the movies' best love story of all time.
According to the readers of Film Review, it is "Gone With the Wind." The Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh classic beat out other top 10 finishers such as "Casablanca" and "When Harry Met Sally."
In a 2002 poll of 1,800 members of the American Film Institute on the same subject, "Casablanca" was named the best love story of all time and "Gone With the Wind" was second.
At the time of the AFI poll, I did a column explaining that "Casablanca" is not a love story. Instead, it is the ...