Victor Fleming on DeBaser: reviews, works, and classic-era sparring

Victor Fleming

Director

Forfans of classic hollywood, film-history students, and anyone curious about oz and gwtw.
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The Profile

American film director best known for The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Gone with the Wind.

Directed two landmark 1939 films: The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind; won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter. American, active through the classic Hollywood studio era.

Three reviews dive into Victor Fleming’s twin 1939 juggernauts: The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. One praises Oz’s timeless charm and music; another hails GWTW as the genre’s pinnacle; a third tears into it as dated and over-awarded. Expect debates on Technicolor magic, Civil War melodrama, Oscars, and the studio system’s sheen.

Notable Quotes

❝ The opening song, ‘Over the Rainbow’, sung by Dorothy, is splendid, with lyrics evoking the transition from the earthly and arid world of the farm, devoid even of flowers due to its barrenness, to the realm of fantasy, represented by the rainbow.

❝ I can say from my side that “Gone with the Wind” is the greatest film in the history of this genre, with a great cast and settings that were undoubtedly impressive for its time.