Victor Fleming

Informationen zum Autor Michael Sragow is the movie critic for The Baltimore Sun , and contributes regularly to The New Yorker. He has also written for Salon, The Atlantic Monthly , The New York Times, and Rolling Stone , among many publications. He edited the Library of America's two volumes of James Agee's work, as well as Produced and Abandoned: The National Society of Film Critics Write on the Best Films You've Never Seen. He lives with his wife, Glenda Hobbs, in Baltimore. Klappentext The full-length! definitive biography of the legendary director of Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz . Victor Fleming was the most sought-after director in Hollywood's golden age! renowned for his ability to make films across an astounding range of genres-westerns! earthy sexual dramas! family entertainment! screwball comedies! buddy pictures! romances! and adventures. Fleming is remembered for the two most iconic movies of the period! Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz! but the more than forty films he directed also included classics like Red Dust! Test Pilot! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! and Captains Courageous. Paradoxically! his talent for knowing how to make the necessary film at the right time! rather than remaking the same movie in different guises! has resulted in Victor Fleming's relative obscurity in our time. Michael Sragow restores the director to the pantheon of our greatest filmmakers and fills a gaping hole in Hollywood history with this vibrant portrait of a man at the center of the most exciting era in American filmmaking. The actors Fleming directed wanted to be him (Fleming created enduring screen personas for Clark Gable! Spencer Tracy! and Gary Cooper)! and his actresses wanted to be with him (Ingrid Bergman! Clara Bow! and Norma Shearer were among his many lovers). Victor Fleming not only places the director back in the spotlight! but also gives us the story of a man whose extraordinary personal style was as thrilling! varied! and passionate as the stories he brought to the screen. Introduction The Real Rhett Butler A composite between an internal combustion engine hitting on all twelve and a bear cubthat's how a screenwriter once described the movie director Victor Fleming. An MGM in-house interviewer discerned that he had the Lincoln type of melancholiaa brooding which enables those who possess it to feel more, understand more. Known for his Svengali-like power and occasional brute force with actors and other collaborators, Fleming was also a generous, down-toearth family man, even in a sometimes-unfathomable marriage. He was a stand-up guy to male and female friends alikeincluding ex-lovers. He was a man's man who loved going on safari but could also enjoy dressing as Jack to a female screenwriter's Jill for a Marion Davies costume party. After he married Lucile Rosson and fathered two daughters, he reserved most of his social life for the Sunday-morning motorcycle gang known as the Moraga Spit and Polish Club. His ambition in the early days of automobiles to become a racetrack champ in the audacious, button-popping Barney Oldfield mold grew into a legend that he'd really been a professional race-car driver. (Well, he had, but just for one race.) He was one of Hollywood's premier amateur aviators. Studio bosses trusted him to deliver the goods; many stars and writers loved him. Victor and Lu Fleming's younger daughter, Sally, encouraged me to write this book after she read an appreciation of her father that I'd written for The New York Times on the occasion of The Wizard of Oz's sixtieth anniversary in 1999. She asked what led me to take on Fleming as a subject. For decades I'd known and loved the half-dozen great movies he'd directed before salvaging The Wizard of Oz for MGM and Gone With the Wind for the producer David O. Se...

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Michael Sragow is the movie critic for The Baltimore Sun, and contributes regularly to The New Yorker. He has also written for Salon, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among many publications. He edited the Library of America’s two volumes of James Agee’s work, as well as Produced and Abandoned: The National Society of Film Critics Write on the Best Films You’ve Never Seen. He lives with his wife, Glenda Hobbs, in Baltimore.

Klappentext
The full-length, definitive biography of the legendary director of Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

Victor Fleming was the most sought-after director in Hollywood's golden age, renowned for his ability to make films across an astounding range of genres-westerns, earthy sexual dramas, family entertainment, screwball comedies, buddy pictures, romances, and adventures. Fleming is remembered for the two most iconic movies of the period, Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, but the more than forty films he directed also included classics like Red Dust, Test Pilot, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Captains Courageous. Paradoxically, his talent for knowing how to make the necessary film at the right time, rather than remaking the same movie in different guises, has resulted in Victor Fleming's relative obscurity in our time.

Michael Sragow restores the director to the pantheon of our greatest filmmakers and fills a gaping hole in Hollywood history with this vibrant portrait of a man at the center of the most exciting era in American filmmaking. The actors Fleming directed wanted to be him (Fleming created enduring screen personas for Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Gary Cooper), and his actresses wanted to be with him (Ingrid Bergman, Clara Bow, and Norma Shearer were among his many lovers).

Victor Fleming not only places the director back in the spotlight, but also gives us the story of a man whose extraordinary personal style was as thrilling, varied, and passionate as the stories he brought to the screen.

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Introduction

The Real Rhett Butler

A composite between an internal combustion engine hitting on all twelve and a bear cub”—that’s how a screenwriter once described the movie director Victor Fleming. An MGM in-house interviewer discerned that he had “the Lincoln type of melancholia—a brooding which enables those who possess it to feel more, understand more.” Known for his Svengali-like power and occasional brute force with actors and other collaborators, Fleming was also a generous, down-toearth family man, even in a sometimes-unfathomable marriage. He was a stand-up guy to male and female friends alike—including ex-lovers. He was a man’s man who loved going on safari but could also enjoy dressing as Jack to a female screenwriter’s Jill for a Marion Davies costume party. After he married Lucile Rosson and fathered two daughters, he reserved most of his social life for the Sunday-morning motorcycle gang known as the Moraga Spit and Polish Club. His ambition in the early days of automobiles to become a racetrack champ in the audacious, button-popping Barney Oldfield mold grew into a legend that he’d really been a professional race-car driver. (Well, he had, but just for one race.) He was one of Hollywood’s premier amateur aviators. Studio bosses trusted him to deliver the goods; many stars and writers loved him.

Victor and Lu Fleming’s younger daughter, Sally, encouraged me to write this book after she read an appreciation of her father that I’d written for The New York Times on the occasion of The Wizard of Oz’s sixtieth anniversary in 1999. She asked what led me to take on Fleming as a subject. For decades I’d known and loved the half-dozen great movies he’d directed before salvaging The Wizard of Oz for MGM and Gone With the Wind for the producer David O. Selznick in 1939— movies like…

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