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Victor Fleming net worth is $250,000
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Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. Fleming holds the achievement of being the only film director to have two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's prestigious 2007 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list.
Full Name
Victor Fleming
Net Worth
$250,000
Date Of Birth
February 23, 1889
Died
January 6, 1949, Cottonwood, Arizona, United States
Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Captains Courageous, Red Dust, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Joan of Arc, The Virginian, Treasure Island, A Guy Named Joe, Test Pilot, Bombshell, When the Clouds Roll By, Tortilla Flat, Reckless, Mantrap, The Way of All Flesh, The Mollycoddle, The Good Earth, Hula, T...
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[To David O. Selznick after being offered a percentage of the profits rather than a salary for directing Gone with the Wind (1939)] Don't be a damn fool, David. This picture is going to be one of the biggest white elephants of all time.
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Don't get excited. Obstacles make a better picture.
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Fact
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Director Henry Hathaway, a former Fleming assistant director, said of his old boss, "There was more of Fleming in [Clark Gable] than there was Gable in Gable. I think that Gable really mimicked Victor Fleming and became that kind of man on the screen".
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He served in the Signal Corps as a cameraman during World War I.
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Mervyn LeRoy, producer of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and a major director in his own right, said of Fleming, "Vic was one of the best directors that ever lived. The funny thing is, nobody mentions him anymore. He was a great director and a great man".
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He was working as a chauffeur for a wealthy family when he met director Allan Dwan in 1913. When the director began talking to him about repairing his own car, he discovered Fleming was knowledgeable about cameras and offered him a job as assistant cinematographer. Working behind the camera, Fleming learned about action pictures from Dwan and comedies from Marshall Neilan.
Did not live to see The Wizard of Oz (1939), which he directed, become a sensation on television and an all-time classic through its annual telecasts.
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When making Gone with the Wind (1939), he wanted Scarlett, for at least once in the film, to look like his hunting buddy Clark Gable's type of woman. So, when wearing the stunning low-cut burgundy velvet dress with rhinestones that Scarlett wears to Ashley Wilkes' birthday party in the second half of the film, to achieve the desired cleavage for Fleming, Walter Plunkett had to tape Vivien Leigh's breasts together.
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The only director to have two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 100 greatest American films, Gone with the Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 351-357. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA, in the Abbey of the Psalms, Sanctuary of Refuge, #2081.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Legend Floyd: The Dark Side of the Rainbow
2000
TV Movie archive footage
Ford Star Jubilee
1956
TV Series 1 episode
Joan of Arc
1948
Adventure
1945
A Guy Named Joe
1943
Tortilla Flat
1942
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
They Dare Not Love
1941
uncredited
Gone with the Wind
1939
The Wizard of Oz
1939
The Great Waltz
1938
uncredited
Test Pilot
1938
Captains Courageous
1937
The Good Earth
1937
uncredited
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Reckless
1935
Treasure Island
1934
Bombshell
1933
uncredited
The White Sister
1933
uncredited
Red Dust
1932
uncredited
The Wet Parade
1932
uncredited
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
1931
Documentary
Renegades
1930
Common Clay
1930
The Virginian
1929
The Wolf Song
1929
The Awakening
1928
Abie's Irish Rose
1928
The Rough Riders
1927
Hula
1927
The Way of All Flesh
1927
Mantrap
1926
The Blind Goddess
1926
Lord Jim
1925
A Son of His Father
1925
Adventure
1925
The Devil's Cargo
1925
Empty Hands
1924
Code of the Sea
1924
The Call of the Canyon
1923
To the Last Man
1923
Law of the Lawless
1923
Dark Secrets
1923
Anna Ascends
1922
Red Hot Romance
1922
The Lane That Had No Turning
1922
Woman's Place
1921
Mama's Affair
1921
The Mollycoddle
1920
When the Clouds Roll by
1919
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
1931
Documentary
His Majesty, the American
1919
Reaching for the Moon
1917
Down to Earth
1917
Wild and Woolly
1917
The Americano
1916
The Matrimaniac
1916
American Aristocracy
1916
Manhattan Madness
1916
The Half-Breed
1916
An Innocent Magdalene
1916
Macbeth
1916
The Good Bad Man
1916
Little Meena's Romance
1916
The Habit of Happiness
1916
Betty of Greystone
1916
Fifty-Fifty
1915/II
Short
Assistant Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Great Waltz
1938
director: retakes - uncredited
The Crowd Roars
1938
director of retakes - uncredited
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
second assistant director: Babylon story - uncredited
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
producer
Renegades
1930
producer
Adventure
1925
producer
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Envoy Extraordinary
1914
Minor Role (uncredited)
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
When the Clouds Roll by
1919
uncredited
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Modern Musketeer
1917
camera operator - uncredited
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Documentary acknowledgment: the non-musical sequences represent outstanding contributions by