the madam who ran a high-class Victorian-era brothel and was the model for Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind, is woven into the colorful fabric of Lexington's history.

From the holier-than-thou sneer of Alicia Rhett’s India Wilkes to Ona Munson’s hard-bitten kindness as the notorious madam Belle Watling, the characters of “GWTW” stay in the memory even ...

the inspiration for Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind.” Brezing was a notorious madame in the late 1800s, early 1900s, who operated a few brothels in Lexington ...

Backlit with a red glow, the lamp is prominently on display in a famous scene where Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) confides his feelings for Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) to Belle Watling (Ona Munson).

Kentucky was so renowned she is said to have been the model for Belle Watling in the classic novel, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Whilst other 'soiled doves' met some of the most famed ...

In the movie “Gone With the Wind,” Belle Watling, the bawdyhouse madam who saves Rhett Butler and friends by providing them an alibi to Yankee interrogators, asks Scarlett O’Hara’s friend ...

Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig (2007) • Young Rhett's conflict with his cruel father; his possible love child with Belle Watling; and his side of the epic love affair with Scarlett.

the inspiration behind Gone With the Wind’s Belle Watling character. Brezing’s TIME Magazine obituary states she operated “the most orderly of disorderly houses,” a motto adopted by Belle ...

considered an inspiration for “Gone With the Wind” madam Belle Watling. A third-story rooftop bar was added to Belle’s Cocktail House in 2016 overlooking the downtown Lexington skyline.