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  Victor Fleming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An assistant cameraman for director Allan Dwan in the early teens, Victor Fleming was a director of photography by 1915, and worked under D.W. Griffith's supervision as well as for Dwan on several films with Douglas Fairbanks.
Fleming helmed several rugged actioners in the 1920s, and became a reliable craftsman of impersonal but handsome films at MGM in the 1930s.
Fleming was also a favorite director of actor Clark Gable, and having guided him in Red Dust (1932) and Test Pilot (1938), was brought in to take over the direction of Gone with the Wind (1939).
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 Classic Movie Stars: Victor Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Victor Fleming entered the film business as a stuntman in 1910, mainly doing stunt driving - which came easy to him, as he had been a mechanic and professional racecar driver.
Victor was eventually replaced on the set of Gone with the Wind by Sam wood due to a nervous breakdown suffered by the director.
Victor died in Arizona of heart failure on January 6, 1949; he was interned at the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery.
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 Vic Fleming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor A. Fleming, known as Vic Fleming, is an American lawyer and author, born in Jackson, Mississippi.
A graduate of Davidson College with a law degree from the University of Arkansas, Fleming is a district court judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, well known for his innovative measures against drunk driving.
He is also noted as an author of (and public speaker on) legal humor, including regular columns in bar publications and three books of legal anecdotes.
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 Victor Fleming at Reel Classics: Article: A Forgotten Maker of the Unforgettable : Victor Fleming
Fleming's reputation as a tough leader, a savvy filmmaker and Gable's favorite director led David O. Selznick to recruit him to take over "Gone With the Wind," a production even more troubled than "Oz." Fleming won an Oscar for filming most of this prototype of prestige blockbusters.
Fleming answered the call for family entertainment with "Treasure Island" and "Captains Courageous." When the producer Mervyn LeRoy scrapped the early footage of "The Wizard of Oz" and fired the first director, Richard Thorpe, he turned to Fleming because he needed a moviemaker with a child's eye for wonderment.
Fleming's impeccable handling of Judy Garland was not different in kind from the work he did with other child actors or insecure stars like Gable.
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 The religion of Victor Fleming, director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Victor Fleming was the director of some of the greatest, most influential films in American history, including Gone With the Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Fleming's last film was Joan of Arc (1948), which is widely regarded as one of the most pro-Catholic film treatments this historical Catholic heroine has ever received.
Victor Fleming proved his skill with massive crowd scenes in both GONE WITH THE WIND and THE WIZARD OF OZ, so the impeccable battle sequences in JOAN OF ARC come as no surprise.
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Director Victor Fleming began working under the guidance of D. Griffith, and later directed such classics as "Bombshell" (1933), "Treasure Island" (1934), "Captains Courageous" (1937), "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and "Gone With the Wind" (1939), for which he won the Academy Award as Best Director.
Fleming worked as an automobile mechanic and photographer before he entered the film business in 1910, as an assistant cameraman.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s at MGM studios, Fleming gained a reputation as a dependable and capable craftsman who could get the best performances from his actors, but he was not known as a great or even a particularly creative director.
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 Victor Fleming
Wer den Namen Victor Fleming irgendwann schon einmal gehört hat, wird sich an ihn als Regisseur von "Vom Winde verweht" (1939) erinnern.
Victor Fleming wird zwar im Vorspann als Regisseur genannt, doch das fertige Werk trägt absolut nicht seine Handschrift.
Fleming beginnt als Kameramann in der Stummfilmzeit bei der amerikanischen Triangle, wo er gemeinsam mit David Wark Griffith und Douglas Fairbanks sen. arbeitet, ehe er 1919 seinen ersten eigenen Film dreht: "When The Clouds Roll By".
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 Fleming, Victor --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Fleming started in the industry as a stunt car driver in 1910, later doing camera work for D.W. Griffith.
Fleming's repertoire was extraordinarily broad, spanning three centuries and ranging from Handel and Mozart through 19th-century bel canto to the works of a number of contemporary composers.
This miracle drug was discovered and given to the world by Alexander Fleming, a physician and research bacteriologist at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London.
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 Victor Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Selznick also pulled Victor Fleming off "The Wizard of Oz," which was nearing completion, and subbed the cocky director in for George Cukor, who wasn't...
The director, Victor Fleming, protested that this sum was the usual fee for a whole day's work.
According to police, officers saw Victor-Canty drive the Buick toward Lancaster Avenue while they were chasing Fleming on foot outside the Commerce Bank.
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 Victor Fleming - Wikipédia
Victor Fleming (Pasadena, Californie, 23 février 1883 - Cottonwood, Arizona, 6 janvier 1949) est un réalisateur de cinéma américain.
Après des études secondaires à Los Angeles, Victor Fleming entre dans l'industrie cinématographique en gravissant patiemment les échelons.
Opérateur, puis directeur de la photographie en 1915 pour Griffith.
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 Victor Fleming - netlexikon
Fleming, der die Pionierzeit Hollywoods von Beginn an erlebt hat, ist vor allem bekannt als Regisseur von zwei der populärsten Filme der Filmgeschichte: Der Zauberer von Oz und Vom Winde verweht.
Dennoch erhielt Victor Fleming allerdings den Oscar als bester Regisseur und erscheint als einziger im Abspann.
Fleming galt mit seinen Hobbys Autorrennen, Motorradfahren und Flugzeuge fliegen als einer der größten Machos Hollywoods, dennoch drehte er die größten Melodramen der Filmgeschichte und formte vor allem weibliche Stars wie Jean Harlow und Ingrid Bergman zu Weltstars.
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 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Victor Fleming -- Talented Director or Just Plain Lucky?
Victor Fleming took over from him and filmed the bulk of the movie, until he was appointed to _Gone With The Wind (1939)_.
I read in the MAKING OF OZ that Fleming was unsatisfied with the script for OZ and asked to have his favorite writer John Lee Mahin rewrite it -- Mahin changed the opening scene from Dorothy riding a horse and giggling on the farm to being in trouble with Toto.
There's some leisurely pace to the works he was part of that I figure must be attributed to the close quarters Fleming worked with writers and actors and actresses.
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 Victor Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Among his works are Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood California.
John Adams' 'Harmonium' famously opens with a gathering choral wave of 'No no no', before gushing into an eddying (to these ears, over-written) setting of John Donne's 'Negative Love'.
Everybody has a favorite movie and "The Wizard of Oz" is mine (and I'm sure I'm not alone in that sentiment).
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 Fleming, Victor --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
U.S. motion-picture director Victor Fleming was one of Hollywood's most popular directors during the 1930s.
Victor Fleming was born on Feb. 23, 1883, in Pasadena, Calif. He started in the motion-picture industry as a stunt car driver in 1910, later doing camera work for director D.W. Griffith.
With producer David O. Selznick, he was responsible for completing Gone with the Wind (1939).
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 The Wizard Of Oz
Although there were actually five directors who were assigned to The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming is the only one to receive credit on the film.
At one point, Fleming is said to have directed Gone With the Wind by day and edited Oz by night.
Fleming would go on to win an Academy Award® for Best Direction for his work on Gone With the Wind.
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 Victor Fleming VHS Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde :: GermanRecipes.biz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bergman was cast in the good-girl part, but proved a shrewd judge of material, even this early in her Hollywood career; she finagled her way into playing the floozy instead, thus securing a more colorful acting platform than Lana Turner, who ended up in the more respectable role.
Director Victor Fleming's previous movie was a little number called Gone with the Wind, and the Big Picture approach to that project may have influenced his work here--this Dr.
This version from Victor Fleming, the director of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939), was made only nine years after what is still recognized as Rouben Mamoulian's definitive version, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) - a relatively short time period for a remake.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Victor Fleming
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Victor Fleming
Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881-1955), British bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, best known for his discovery of penicillin.
Fleming, Peggy Gale: U.S. Figure Skating Champions (table)
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 Victor Fleming Posters & Prints - Where to buy Victor Fleming Posters & Prints Online.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Victor Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Fleming der die Pionierzeit Hollywoods von an erlebt hat ist vor allem bekannt Regisseur von zwei der populärsten Filme der Der Zauberer von Oz und Vom Winde verweht.
Obwohl er zahlreiche heute als geltende Filme realisiert hat sollte dies der Oscar für Victor Fleming sein.
Fleming galt mit seinen Hobbys Autorrennen und Flugzeuge fliegen als einer der größten Machos Hollywoods dennoch drehte er die größten Melodramen der Filmgeschichte und formte vor allem Stars wie Jean Harlow und Ingrid Bergman zu Weltstars.
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 Victor Fleming - Information
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 Gone With The Wind (1939)
Although MGM star Clark Gable was expected to play the role of the dashing war profiteer Rhett Butler, Errol Flynn, Ronald Colman, and Gary Cooper were also considered for the part.
The overseer Jonas Wilkerson (Victor Jory) asks her as she steps from her carriage: "We finished plowing the creek bottom today.
What do you want me to start on tomorrow?" Ellen recommends to her husband that the overseer be dismissed promptly (and he is fired the next morning).
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Victor Fleming, Leslie Howard: Vom Winde verweht - Collectors Edition Leslie Howard Filme - Spielfilme Nach Fertigstellung dieser Mammut-Produktion, die für die damalige Zeit die ungeheure Summe von fast 4 Millionen Dollar verschlang, fand die Uraufführung als großes Spektakel 1939 in Atlanta...
Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Margaret Mitchell, Max Steiner...
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 Assignment on Victor Fleming Bio
Fleming's films helped shape the screen personas of Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Spencer Tracy.
Fleming was the hand that kept these talents in line without ever making his own presence overpowering.
This is what the studio system was all about, invisible technology that never interferes with the illusion of motion pictures.
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 Victor Fleming: Der Zauberer von Oz (Filmtipp)
Victor Fleming: Der Zauberer von Oz (Das zauberhafte Land)
Victor Fleming: Der Zauberer von Oz auch: Das zauberhafte Land
Tatsächlich fungierten zunächst George Cukor und Richard Thorpe als Regisseure, und als Victor Fleming zum Set für "Vom Winde verweht" wechselte, drehte King Vidor die letzten Szenen.
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 Victor Fleming @ Filmbug
Victor Fleming [1883-1949] received an Oscar for Best Director, but not for The Wizard of Oz; the director won for Gone With the Wind, a project for which he left Oz three weeks prior to the film's finish (with an uncredited King Vidor completing Oz).
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