I've heard Gone with the Wind is quite a famous film, but I don't know much about it. Can you tell me anything about it?
Gone with the Wind was an American epic historical romance film that was released in 1939 and based off of a book with the same name. 
Interesting, can you tell me briefly about the plot?
So the film was set in the American South, with elements of the civil war and the reconstruction era in the background. It follows the story of a plantation owner's daughter and her romantic pursuits of a man. 
Sounds quite intense given the time era. Can you tell me who starred in Gone with the Wind?
The leading roles in this film were Vivien Leigh, Clarke Gable, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland. From my vague memory of the movie it was a bit intense. 
Never heard of those people, but I guess it's an old film so no surprise. Who wrote the book that the movie was based on?
The original author of the book was Margaret Mitchell, and the book had been published in 1936. So that seems to be a pretty quick turn around time to be made into a movie. The movie script had to go through several revisions to whittle down the screentime too. 
I guess they figured it was such an important novel they needed to make a movie right away.
It was an extremely popular book with American readers and from its release it was the best seller in 1936 and 1937.