where was tara in gone with the wind filmed
Tara (plantation) For the 1939 motion picture, the home was constructed by art director Lyle Wheeler. After filming concluded, the façade of Tara sat on the Forty Acres backlot owned by RKO Pictures and then Desilu Productions. The Tara house façade looks very similar to the home of Barbara Stanwyck's character Victoria Barkey in the CBS series The Big Valley. That set was built on the Republic studio lot in Encino for the John Wayne movie, "The Fighting Kentuckian." In 1959, Southern Attractions, Inc. purchased the façade, which was dismantled and shipped to Georgia with plans to relocate it to the Atlanta area as a tourist attraction.[3][4] Producer David O. Selznick commented at the time,