SEPTEMBER 27, 2005:XI.5 VICTOR FLEMING (23 February 1889, La Cañada, California—6 January 1949, Cottonwood, Arizona, heart attack) directed 48 films, among them Joan of Arc 1948, A Guy Named Joe 1943, Tortilla Flat 1942, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941, The Wizard of Oz 1939, Treasure Island 1934, Bombshell 1933 (uncredited), Red Dust 1932 (uncredited), The Virginian 1929, Abie's Irish Rose 1928, The Way of All Flesh 1927, Lord Jim 1925, and When the Clouds Roll By 1919. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) 222 min /238 min (restored DVD version) ERNEST HALLER (31 May 1896, Los Angeles, California—21 October 1970, Marina del Rey, California, road accident) shot 178 films. He was nominated for an Oscar Clark Gable...Rhett Butler for Lilies of the Field 1963 and was nominated for Whatever Happened to Baby Vivien Leigh...Scarlett O'Hara Jane? 1962, The Flame and the Arrow 1950, Mildred Pierce 1945, All This and Leslie Howard...Ashley Wilkes Heaven Too 1940, and Jezebel 1938, and he won for Gone With the Wind 1939 Olivia de Havilland...Melanie Hamilton shared with Ray Rennahan. Thomas Mitchell...Gerald O'Hara Barbara O'Neil...Ellen O'Hara (as Barbara O'Neill) DAVID O. SELZNICK (10 May 1902, Pittsburgh—22 June 1965, Hollywood, heart Evelyn Keyes...Suellen O'Hara attack) was producer or executive producer on 83 films, among them A Farewell to Ann Rutherford...Carreen O'Hara Arms 1957, The Third Man 1949, Portrait of Jennie 1948, The Paradine Case 1947, George Reeves...Stuart Tarleton Duel in the Sun 1946, Spellbound 1945, Rebecca 1940, The Adventures of Tom Fred Crane...Brent Tarleton Sawyer 1938, The Prisoner of Zenda 1937, A Star Is Born 1937, The Garden of Hattie McDaniel...Mammy Allah 1936, Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936, A Tale of Two Cities 1935, Anna Karenina Oscar Polk...Pork 1935, Manhattan Melodrama 1934, and Christopher Strong 1933. Butterfly McQueen...Prissy Victor Jory...Jonas Wilkerson CLARK GABLE (1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio—16 November 1960, Hollywood, Everett Brown...Big Sam heart attack) appeared in 77 films, the first of which was White Man 1924, the last of Howard C. Hickman...John Wilkes which was The Misfits 1961. According to IMDB, “At sixteen he quit high school, Alicia Rhett...India Wilkes went to work in an Akron tire factory, and decided to become an actor after seeing Rand Brooks...Charles Hamilton the play "The Bird of Paradise". He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and Carroll Nye...Frank Kennedy sold ties. In 1924 he reached Hollywood with the help of Portland OR theatre Marcella Martin...Cathleen Calvert manager Josephine Dillon, who coached and [although] twelve years older married Laura Hope Crews...Aunt Pittypat Hamilton him. After bit parts he returned to theatre, becoming lifelong friends with Lionel Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson...Uncle Peter Barrymore. After several failed screen tests Barrymore and Zanuck he was signed in Harry Davenport...Dr. Meade 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Leona Roberts...Mrs. Meade Fools, Dance 1931 and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Jane Darwell...Mrs. Dolly Merriwether Soul 1931 the same year. His unshaven love-making with braless Jean Harlow in Red Paul Hurst...Yankee deserter Dust 1932 made him MGM's most important star. The studio punished him for Ona Munson...Belle Watling refusing an assignment; he was farmed out to Columbia where he won an Oscar for It Ward Bond...Tom Happened One Night 1934. He returned to substantial roles at MGM, winning Yakima Canutt...Renegade nominations for Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind 1939. When his third wife Carole Lombard died in a plane crash returning from a War Bond drive, a grief-stricken Gable joined the Army Air Corps, out of movies for three years. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract. He free- lanced, but his films didn't do well at the box office. He announced during filming of The Misfits 1961 that, for the first time, he was to become a father. Two months later he died of a heart attack. He was laid to rest beside Carole Lombard at Forest Lawn Cemetery.” He was nominated for three Oscars and won one: Gone With the Wind 1939, Mutiny Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam on the Bounty 1935, It Happened One Night 1934 won. Wood (uncredited) Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell VIVIEN LEIGH (5 November 1913, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India—7 July 1967, Screenplay by Sidney Howard, Ben Hecht, David O. London, England, chronic tuberculosis) acted in only 19 films. From Leonard Selznick,Jo Swerling & John Van Druten Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: "Her place in movie history secured by her Produced by David O. Selznick near-legendary, Oscar-winning star turn as the tempestuous Scarlett O'Hara in Original Music by Max Steiner, Joseph Barnby, David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind 1939, this beautiful English actress Adolph Deutsch, Heinz Roemheld, Charles C. Sawyer, contributed a number of memorable performances in movies, nearly all of which Henry Tucker, I.B. Woodbury have been regrettably overshadowed by her supreme achievement. The Non-Original Music by William Axt, Daniel Decatur convent-educated Leigh made her film debut in a 1934 British film, Things Are Emmett, Stephen Foster, Hugo Friedhofer, Louis Looking Up and toiled in a handful of undistinguished quickies before being cast Lambert, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, George in Fire Over England 1937 opposite Laurence Olivier, with whom she fell in love Frederick Root, Richard Wagner, Franz Waxman and almost immediately. They continued their courtship while costarring in 21 Days Henry Clay Work Together 1938, a middling drama based on a John Galsworthy story. Both Cinematography by Ernest Haller and Lee Garmes married, they kept up their well-publicized romance for several years; finally Production Design by William Cameron Menzies granted divorces by their respective spouses, they married in 1940.Having appeared in such British films as Dark Journey, Storm in a Teacup both 1937 and Art Direction by Lyle R. Wheeler Sidewalks of London aka St. Martin's Lane 1938, charming as a girl whom Costume Design by Walter Plunkett Charles Laughton teaches to be a "busker," or street entertainer, Leigh made her Stunt Coordinator Yakima Canutt first impression on American movie audiences in the British-filmed A Yank at Stunts by Richard Farnsworth Oxford 1938, which starred MGM matinee idol Robert Taylor. Producer Selznick, John Frederics...hat designer: Scarlett then at wit's end after searching futilely for a Scarlett to appear in Gone With the Carey Harrison...riding double: Thomas Mitchell Wind already in production, was introduced to the actress, who had accompanied Julia Ward Howe...lyricist: "Battle Hymn of the Olivier to Hollywood where he was filming Wuthering Heights. He was Republic" immediately smitten with her exquisite beauty; the rest was history.Leigh's success Eddie Schmidt...tailor: Mr. Gable as Scarlett won her the coveted female lead in MGM's moving remake of Waterloo Bridge 1940, a starcrossed romance that reunited her with Robert Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role Taylor. She was paired with Olivier for That Hamilton Woman 1941, a lavish (Vivien Leigh), Best Actress in a Supporting Role costume drama depicting the scandalous love affair between Britain's Admiral (Hattie McDaniel), Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton (it was, reportedly, Winston Churchill's Wheeler), Best Cinematography, Color (Ernest Haller favorite film), before taking a five-year sabbatical from the screen. She returned and Ray Rennahan), Best Director (Victor Fleming), to play the fabled Egyptian seductress in Caesar and Cleopatra 1946, and took Best Film Editing (Hal C. Kern and James E. the title role in Anna Karenina 1948, a turgid remake of the Tolstoy classic. Newcom), Best Picture (David O. Selznick), Best Leigh's riveting performance as the emotionally fragile Blanche du Bois in the Writing, Screenplay (Sidney Howard), Technical 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire won her a Achievement Award (Don Musgrave). second Oscar. But her own emotional travails and precarious health physically Academy Award nominations: Best Actor in a Leading delicate, she was a longtime tuberculosis sufferer kept her off the screen for years Role (Clark Gable), Best Actress in a Supporting Role at a time. Her last films were The Deep Blue Sea 1955, The Roman Spring of Mrs. (Olivia de Havilland), Best Effects, Special Effects Stone 1961, and Ship of Fools 1965-in all of which, it should be stated, she gave (Jack Cosgrove, photographic, and Fred Albin and superb performances. Leigh succumbed to tuberculosis, which by the 1960s had Arthur Johns, sound), Best Music, Original Score faded her beauty. She had divorced Olivier in 1960." (Max Steiner) and Best Sound, Recording (Thomas T. Moulton). LESLIE HOWARD (3 April 1893, Forest Hill, London, England—1 June 1943, Honorary Award William Cameron Menzies For Bay of Biscay, casualty of war) acted in 34 films. Josef Goebbels hated him and outstanding achievement in the use of color for the may have been responsible for having his plane shot down. Some of his films enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of were In Which We Serve 1942, 49th Parallel 1941, Intermezzo: A Love Story Gone with the Wind (plaque). 1939, Pygmalion 1938, Romeo and Juliet 1936, The Petrified Forest 1936, The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934, Of Human Bondage 1934, and The Heroine of Mons National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989 National 1914. Film Registry OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND (1 July 1916, Tokyo, Japan) acted in 55 theatrical and television films, some of which were: "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana" 1982, The Swarm 1978, Airport '77 1977, Hush..