Victor Fleming

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BIRTHDAY

February 23, 1883

Pasadena, CA

DIED

January 06, 1949

RECENT CREDITS

Joan of Arc (FILM) Sep. 2, 1950

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (FILM) Aug. 12, 1941

Gone With the Wind (FILM) Jan. 1, 1939

The Wizard of Oz (FILM) Jan. 1, 1939

Test Pilot (FILM) Jan. 1, 1938

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BIOGRAPHY

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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. Fairbanks also starred in Fleming's first two films as a director: 1919's When the Clouds Roll By, co-directed by Theodore Reed, and his solo effort of the following year, The Mollycoddle. Fleming helmed several rugged actioners in the 1920s, and became a reliable craftsman of impersonal but handsome films at MGM in the 1930s. Skilled at films for young audiences--Treasure Island, Captains Courageous, The Wizard of Oz--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). His most notable films of the '40s were the Spencer Tracy films Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1941), Tortilla Flat (1942), and A Guy Named Joe (1944), and his final film, Joan of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman.

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A Tangled Webb: 1005 Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills

Oct. 30, 2008

Few tales demonstrate just how attached a spirit can become to the posh environs of Beverly Hills like the tale of the quaint Spanish stucco house that was once set at a prestigious corner of Sunset Boulevard at 1005 Rexford Drive, where not one but two stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age reportedly tried to remain, even in death.

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