Peter Bogdanovich states that David O. Selznick's first independent film was "Gone With the Wind" (1939), when Selznick had been making independent films since 1936, when he made "The Garden of Allah". Other independent Selznick films include the 1937 "A Star is Born", the 1937 "The Prisoner of Zenda", and the 1938 version of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".