 Many costumes designed by Walter Plunkett (qv) for _Gone With the  Wind (1939)_ were used again the following year in this film for  some of the large crowd scenes, although Adrian (I) (qv) created  the gowns for the principals in this film. A modest budget partially  explains why the costumes are not at all accurate for the assumed  period of the film and reusing Plunketts elaborate fashions saved  MGM money in making this film.