Victor Fleming Articles
Jean Harlow-Mark Vieira Interview Pt.2 – Harlow 'a Bigger Star in the 1940s'
Jean Harlow, National Air Race director Cliff Henderson (top); Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy directed by Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz) on the set of Bombshell; cinematographer Harold Rosson, with whom Harlow was briefly married, is at the camera (middle); Jean Harlow by the pool of her Beverly Glen home (bottom) Jean Harlow-Mark Vieira Interview Part I What are your impressions [...]
GONE WITH THE WIND; GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS; LOVE AFFAIR: 1939 Best Picture Nominees on TCM
Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (top); Greer Garson, Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips (middle); Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Love Affair (bottom) Turner Classic Movies' homage to the Best Picture Oscar nominees of 1939 continues this evening with three more entries: Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind, Sam Wood's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Leo McCarey's Love Affair. If you haven't watched all three [...]
THE MOLLYCODDLE – Douglas Fairbanks – d: Victor Fleming
The Mollycoddle (1920) Direction: Victor Fleming Screenplay: Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas J. Geraghty ("scenario editor"); from a short story by Harold McGrath Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Renick, Wallace Beery, Paul Burns, Morris Hughes, George Stewart Ruth Renick, Douglas Fairbanks, The Mollycoddle Though no masterpiece, The Mollycoddle is a surprisingly enjoyable romp starring Douglas Fairbanks as an effete, upper-class, European wannabe who discovers both his manhood [...]
AVATAR: #87 at the All-Time Domestic Box Office?
Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind (Selznick / MGM); Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington in Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) (bottom) James Cameron's Avatar, #87 at the domestic box office. It doesn't sound quite right, does it? But… Adjusted for inflation, Avatar is at a modest #87 spot on Box Office Mojo's list of all-time highest grossers in the US/Canada, with an [...]