 The Ku Klux Klan was written out of the screenplay as the  organization to which Frank Kennedy turns after Scarlett is attacked  in Shantytown. Producer Selznick said that he had no desire to  remake _Birth of a Nation, The (1915)_ (qv), telling screenwriter  Sidney Howard in 1937, "I do hope you will agree with me on this  omission of what might come out as an unintentional advertisement  for intolerant societies in these fascist