Victor Fleming
Motion Picture Director
1889-1949
Oscar for Best Director, "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
Victor Fleming, a California native, met a film director while working as a mechanic, and worked his way from camera assistant to cinematographer. Fleming directed his first film, "When the Clouds Roll By," in 1919. He directed stars like Douglas Fairbanks in silent action films, and eventually received a reputation as a "man's director."
Fleming joined MGM in 1932 and directed some of the studio's most famous films: "Bombshell" (1933), "Treasure Island" (1934), "Captains Courageous" (1937), "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "Gone With the Wind" (1939), "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1941) and "Joan of Arc" (1948).
Despite his reputation for directing men, Fleming had great success directing women: both Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel won Academy Awards for 'Gone With the Wind," and Ingrid Bergman was nominated for "Joan of Arc."
Fleming is the only director to have two films ("Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz") in the top 10 of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame can be seen on Vine Street.
In "Moonlight & Magnolias," Fleming has just been pulled from the set of "The Wizard of Oz" to replace George Cukor as the director of "Gone With the Wind." Since Fleming is dissatisfied with the script, producer David O. Selznick calls in screenwriter Ben Hecht. There is one problem - Hecht has not read the book. Over the next five days, Selznick and Fleming read and act out the parts while Hecht works furiously to produce a script worthy of the most famous movie in Hollywood history.
Doug Diekow
Doug Diekow will be recognized by GCP audiences for lending his comic timing to roles like Reverend David Marshall Lee in "The Foreigner," George Hay in "Moon Over Buffalo," Charles Condomine in "Blithe Spirit," Jack Warner in "Shakespeare in Hollywood," Harmony in "Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will?," and Edgar Hollister in "The Murder Room."
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