In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauß II – Schani to his friends – would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else Read More »
Tag Archives: Victor Fleming
A Guy Named Joe (1943) Victor Fleming, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Maj. Pete Sandidge is a very able pilot who seems to have a streak of luck as far as flying goes. Read More »
Mantrap (1926) Victor Fleming, Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young Read More »
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (1931) Douglas Fairbanks, Victor Fleming, Duke Kahanamoku
An early example of a “vanity” production, this feature-length documentary is comprised of glorified home movies Read More »
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Victor Fleming, Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Read More »
Renegades (1930) Victor Fleming, Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct Read More »
The Good Earth (1937) Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. Read More »
Gone with the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Drama, History, Romance, War
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Read More »
The Wet Parade (1932) Victor Fleming, Dorothy Jordan, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Drama, History, Romance
Sprawling story of Prohibition set against two families and how they are affected by booze. Read More »
They Dare Not Love (1941) James Whale, Victor Fleming, George Brent, Martha Scott, Paul Lukas, Drama, War
When the Clouds Roll by (1919) Victor Fleming, Douglas Fairbanks, Albert MacQuarrie, Kathleen Clifford, Action, Comedy, Romance
The comfortable and amiable Daniel Boone Brown, a resident of New York’s water front, becomes the victim of a mad scientist’s psychological experiments. Read More »
Joan of Arc (1948) Victor Fleming, Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, Biography, Drama, History, War
During the Hundred Years’ War, peasant girl Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman) hears voices instructing her to save France from the English. Read More »
Adventure (1945) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Drama, Romance, Comedy
A rowdy, womanizing merchant marine, leader of an eccentric crew of misfits and drunks, is almost killed by a Japanese torpedo strike. Read More »
Reckless (1935) Victor Fleming, Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, Drama, Musical, Comedy
Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie’s musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.
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Bombshell (1933) Victor Fleming, Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain’t easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts Read More »