 Upon its release, "Gone with the Wind" broke attendance records everywhere.At the Capitol Theatre in New York alone, it averaged eleven thousand admissions per day in late December, and within four years of its release had sold an estimated sixty million tickets across the United States—sales equivalent to just under half the population at the time.It repeated its success overseas, and was a sensational hit during the Blitz in London, opening in April 1940 and playing for four years.