At one point it was said she was engaged to at least five men.....at the same time. She was one of Atlanta's society belles during the decadent 1920s dancing the Tango and the Apache Dance scandalizing the Old Guard.
Good for her.
Her second husband was her first husband's Best Man meaning she was smart enough to get out when she probably should have said no in the first place. The first marriage most certainly wasn't the most ideal situation even if it was what others wanted for her.
Again....good for her.
And as far as I'm concerned Atlanta's Georgian Terrace Hotel is sacred ground since this is where Hollywood's Rudolph Valentino swept Margaret Mitchell off her feet and carried her inside from the rooftop.
Wow.
Now, Margaret Mitchell didn't meet Valentino during her debutante days. She met him while working for the Atlanta Journal - the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine to be exact - where she wrote numerous entertaining articles over her time there including an interview with the Hollywood heartthrob.
Mitchell was in transition from one marriage to the other and needed the job, but she received no encouragement from her family, from her society friends, and didn't really have any encouragement from the folks who hired her, but she did it anyway.
I tend to really admire those who create and persevere with little if no encouragement.
I tend to really admire those who create and persevere with little if no encouragement.
Yet from 1922 to 1926 she turned out a wide variety of work that is quite interesting including articles on Confederate generals, King Tut, and one article concerned the last surviving bridesmaid at Theodore Roosevelt's mother's wedding.
This interesting online article states......[Mitchell's] titles were fairly bland, but "Hanging Over Atlanta in Borglum's Sling" took [her] high above Atlanta in a stone cutter's sling so she could get an idea what it was like on Stone Mountain......
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