A lot of folks still consider the 1939 film Gone With the Wind to be the best loved and most iconic American movie of all time - a classic national story of struggle and perseverance. Others might call it an American icon for less flattering reasons, i.e., how blithely it romanticizes some pretty problematic racial history. And yet another way to look at the movie and its making is as the quintessence of Hollywood: The last-minute firings, hirings, and general histrionics behind Gone With the Wind are legendary among film buffs. It's this last angle that's the primary concern of Tacoma Little Theatre's Moonlight and Magnolias, a comedic romp about the monumental difficulties of making Margaret Mitchell's humongous best-seller into a decent film.

Read Christian Carvajal's review of Moonlight and Magnolias in the Music & Culture section.

MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through June 22, Tacoma Little Theatre, 210 N. I St., Tacoma, $12, 253.272.2281