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Dec 22, 2008 · Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master By Michael Sragow Pantheon; 645 pages. The Gist: Scholars tend to lionize directors who develop groundbreaking styles or who come to dominate and define a genre — men like Hitchcock, Welles, Hawks and Ford.
Victor Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz, and Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. Victor Fleming was born in Pasadena, California. He served in the photographic section during World War 1, and acted as chief […]
Victor Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
Motion Picture Director. He occupies a curious place in cinema history. In the 1930s, Fleming was hailed as one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers. He is the credited director of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone With the Wind (1939), two of the most popular movies of all time, and won a Best Director Academy Award for...
Victor Fleming. 1940-e: 1940. John Ford • 1941. John Ford • 1942. William Wyler • 1943. Michael Curtiz • 1944. Leo McCarey • 1945. Billy Wilder • 1946.
Victor Fleming. Richard Thorpe (original scenes) King Vidor (Kansas scenes) Writing credits. L. Frank Baum (novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Noel Langley . Florence Ryerson . Edgar Allan Woolf. Irving Brecher. William H. Cannon . Herbert Fields. Arthur Freed. Jack Haley (additional dialogue) E.Y. Harburg. Samuel Hoffenstein. Bert Lahr ...
Victor Fleming was born Victor Lonzo Fleming in La Canada, California on February 23, 1889. His father was a citrus farmer who died when Victor was four. Victor, his mother and two younger sisters went to live with his mother's brother, Ed Hartman, in San Dimas, east of Los Angeles.
