Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Screen Classics) (74 page)

(above)
Lupe Velez worked with two of her off-screen lovers, Fleming and Gary Cooper, on
Wolf Song
(1928).
(below)
City slicker Percy Marmont falls for a frustrated Minneapolis manicurist turned rural wife, Clara Bow, in
Mantrap
(1926).

Norma Shearer learns about survival (and love) from Jack Holt in
Empty Hands
(1924). She actually fell for her director.

Percy Marmont forges a doomed bond with Shirley Mason in Fleming’s adaptation of Conrad’s
Lord Jim
(1925).

Gable interrupts Harlow’s barrel bath in
Red Dust
(1932)—a scene Fleming later parodied in
Bombshell.

Douglass Dumbrille as “Ugly” Israel Hands bows to Jackie Cooper’s Jim Hawkins as Long John Silver (Wallace Beery) looks on in
Treasure Island
(1934).

Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, and, of course, Toto in
The Wizard of Oz
(1939).

Rhett Butler inspects the hands of Scarlett O’Hara, who is wearing one of the most famous of all movie costumes in history: the green curtain dress in
Gone With the Wind
.

MGM star power at its peak: Tracy, Myrna Loy, and Gable in
Test Pilot
(1938).

Tracy stands up for Freddie Bartholomew (
left
) against John Carradine in
Captains Courageous
(1937).

A really eternal triangle: ghost Tracy witnesses the wooing of his former lover Irene Dunne by Van Johnson in
A Guy Named Joe
(1943).

Ingrid Bergman, flanked by Shepperd Strudwick
(left)
and Bill Kennedy, is led to the stake in the fiery climax of
Joan of Arc
(1948).