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Film, Video Victor Fleming: American Master

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Title

  • Victor Fleming: American Master

Summary

  • Victor Fleming was the most sought-after director during 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 best remembered for directing the two most iconic movies of the period, "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz," but the more than 40 films he directed also included classics such as "Red Dust," "Test Pilot," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Captains Courageous." Paradoxically, his talent for knowing how to make the right film at the right time, rather than remaking the same movie in different guises, has resulted in Fleming's relative obscurity in our time.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-06-02.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Literature
  • -  Performing Arts, Music

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Michael Sragow.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-06-02.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688256

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Victor Fleming: American Master. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-02, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688256/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2009) Victor Fleming: American Master. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688256/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Victor Fleming: American Master. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-02, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688256/>.

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