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| Victor
Fleming |
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| Director
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| 1883 - 1949 |
| Born February 23,
Pasadena, California, USA |
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Key Production Country: USA |
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Key Genres:
Adventure Drama, Romantic Drama, Drama |
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Collaborators: Cedric
Gibbons (Production Designer), John Lee Mahin (Screenwriter), Harold Rosson (Cinematographer), Clark Gable (Leading Player), Spencer
Tracy (Leading Player), Franz Waxman (Composer), Jean Harlow (Leading
Player), Lionel Barrymore (Leading Player), Louis D. Lighton (Producer),
Blanche
Sewell (Editor) |
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Highly Recommended: The
Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939) |
| Recommended: Red
Dust (1932), Bombshell (1933) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
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Reel Classics ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films: The
Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939) |
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"Fleming's
career is an unusual one. He is credited as director for two of
the most famous Hollywood movies ever: The Wizard of Oz
(1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939). Yet his
contribution to both seems intangible: no single person seems
responsible for The Wizard of Oz, and Gone with the
Wind properly belongs to Selznick. Nevertheless, Fleming's
work on Oz has left to posterity a movie whose magic has
influenced generations of writers, artists and film-makers." -
(The Movie Book, 1999) |
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"Fleming's
work has a Jekyll and Hyde quality of its own. Within the same
year, Jekyll could turn out the raucously entertaining
Bombshell while Hyde was being heavy-handed with White
Sister...This mysterious figure probably expressed more of
Hollywood's contradictions than did most of his colleagues. Yet,
aside from Cukor, he was the only
Metro director who could occasionally make the lion roar." - Andrew
Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968) |
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"A first-rate craftsman, and part of an expert team, Victor
Fleming happened to be at MGM at the right time to direct
Gone with the Wind (1939) and The
Wizard of Oz (1939)...Actors
liked working with him, and he secured inspired performances
from Gary Cooper in The Virginian (1929), Clark Gable in
Red Dust (1933), and Spencer Tracy, who won an Academy
Award for Captains Courageous (1937)." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006)
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"The pace of his films is normally slow, the cinematography
picturesque, and the heroes real he-men (Treasure Island,
34; Captains Courageous, 37; Gone with the Wind,
39). Nevertheless, Fleming was one of Hollywood's best directors
of fantasy (When the Clouds Roll By, 20; The Wizard of
Oz, 39; A Guy Named Joe, 43)." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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