DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

Victor Fleming

Victor Fleming (La Cañada, CA, USA, 1889 - Cottonwood, AZ, USA, 1949) started working in silent film, making many adventure films with Douglas Fairbanks and several westerns. He started working with MGM in 1932, directing comedies for Jean Harlow (Bombshell, 1933; Reckless, 1935) and more adventure films (like Captains Courageous, 1937). With The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939) he gets the Academy Award’s recognition, winning respectively best song (Over the Rainbow) and ten different Oscars for the latter. He worked with Spencer Tracy on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941) and Tortilla Flat (1942), an adaptation of Steinbeck’s novel. He died while he was shooting the movie Joan of Arc.

FILMOGRAFIA

When the Clouds Roll By (Douglas superstizioso, 1919), The Mollycoddle (Un pulcino nella stoppa, 1920), Law of the Lawless (Il minareto in fiamme, 1923), Adventure (1925), The Way of All Flesh (Nel gorgo del peccato, 1927), The Awakening (Il risveglio, 1928), The Virginian (L’uomo della Virginia, 1929), Red Dust (Lo schiaffo, 1932), Captains Courageous (Capitani coraggiosi, 1937), Test Pilot (Arditi dell’aria, 1938), The Wizard of Oz (Il mago di Oz, 1939), Gone with the Wind (Via col vento, 1939), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Il dottor Jekyll e Mr Hyde, 1941), Tortilla Flat (Gente allegra, 1942), A Guy Named Joe (Joe il pilota, 1943), Adventure (Avventura, 1945), Joan of Arc (Giovanna d’Arco, 1949).