"Victor Fleming 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 has those same two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's 2007 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. Victor Fleming was born at the Banbury Ranch near what is now La Cañada Flintridge, California, the son of Eva (née Hartman) and William Richard Lonzo Fleming. He served in the photographic"
"Gone with the Wind (musical) Gone with the Wind is a musical based on the Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name and its 1939 film adaptation, with music and lyrics by Margaret Martin, and a book by Martin, adapted by Sir Trevor Nunn. It began previews on 5 April 2008 and officially opened at the New London Theatre in London's West End on 22 April 2008. The production was directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and featured sets by John Napier and costumes by Andreane Neofitu. Darius Danesh and Jill Paice starred as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara respectively. The"
"Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler."
"Fleming, who had directed ""Gone with the Wind"" and codirected ""The Wizard of Oz"", two major releases by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1939. MGM, where Fleming was under contract, acquired full rights to the 1931 film from Paramount Pictures prior to Fleming's production. According to the Robert Louis Stevenson website being archived and preserved by the British Library, subsequent to that acquisition MGM studio executives “hid the [1931] film away to avoid competition with their remake”. The 1931 version then, due to ongoing legal restrictions and the lack of readily available copies, was effectively “lost” for over a quarter of a century,"
"Victor Fleming and Sam Wood. Each had their own vision and the strong-willed men often clashed. ""The Making of a Legend"" brings up many of the ""what ifs?"" that arose as different scenarios were discussed. Among these were the possibilities of Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper as Rhett Butler. The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind is a 1988 documentary outlining the successes and challenges of the casting, filming, and legacy of the 1939 film ""Gone with the Wind"", from concept to finished product. The documentary focuses on David"
"was married to William A. Wellman from 1925−1926 (the second of his four wives), and had a cameo role in ""Wings"" that was also seen in ""The Celluloid Closet"". William and Margery adopted a daughter, Gloria, who was the natural daughter of screenwriter Robert Emmett Tansey Chapin died in Los Angeles, California, in 1947. Frederic Chapin Frederic Chapin (December 1, 1873 – December 27, 1947) was an American composer and writer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Chapin is best known for his work with L. Frank Baum on ""The Woggle-Bug"", a 1905 musical based on Baum's novel, ""The Marvelous"
"lead in a Bing Crosby movie at Paramount, ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1949), a musical loosely based on the story by Mark Twain. Fleming exhibited her singing ability, dueting with Crosby on ""Once and For Always"" and soloing with ""When Is Sometime"". She and Crosby recorded the songs for a three-disc, 78 rpm Decca album, conducted by Victor Young, who wrote the film's orchestral score. The movie was Fleming's first Technicolor film. She then played another leading role opposite a comedian, in this case Bob Hope for ""The Great Lover"" (1949). It was a big hit and"
"better suit Dorothy's initial meeting with the Scarecrow (initially, it was to contrast with his lively manner in Thorpe's footage), and was rerecorded as such. At first thought to be lost for over seven decades, a recording of this original version was rediscovered in 2009. Cukor did not actually shoot any scenes for the film, merely acting as something of a ""creative advisor"" to the troubled production, and, because of his prior commitment to direct ""Gone with the Wind"", he left on November 3, 1938, when Victor Fleming assumed directorial responsibility. As director, Fleming chose not to shift the film"
"of Friml's musical ""Katinka""; his third was to actress Elsie Lawson (who played the maid in Friml's ""Glorianna"", and by whom he had a son William); and his fourth and final marriage was to Kay Wong Ling. The first three marriages ended in divorce. One of the most popular theatrical forms in the early decades of the 20th century in America was the operetta, and its most famous composer was Irish-born Victor Herbert. It was announced in 1912 that operetta diva Emma Trentini would be starring in a new operetta on Broadway by Herbert with lyricist Otto Harbach entitled ""The"
"Typically, off-Broadway and regional theatres tend to produce smaller and therefore less expensive musicals, and development of new musicals has increasingly taken place outside of New York and London or in smaller venues. For example, ""Spring Awakening"", ""Fun Home"" and ""Hamilton"" were developed Off-Broadway before being launched on Broadway. Several musicals returned to the spectacle format that was so successful in the 1980s, recalling extravaganzas that have been presented at times, throughout theatre history, since the ancient Romans staged mock sea battles. Examples include the musical adaptations of ""Lord of the Rings"" (2007), ""Gone with the Wind"" (2008) and """""
"1912 to write the lyrics to an operetta with Rudolf Friml, called ""The Firefly"". Victor Herbert was originally supposed to write the music, but he refused to work with the star of the show Emma Trentini because in his last show, she refused to sing a song for the encore, and Herbert walked out refusing to ever work with her again. Hammerstein could not find anyone as talented as Herbert, but settled on the unknown Friml because of his classical training. The result was a huge success, and it would spell eleven more musicals, including ""High Jinks"" (1913) (which featured"
"for trombone, ""Cavatina and Allegro"" for E flat horn, ""Arioso and Caprice"" for horn, ""Flight of Fancy"", for cornet and euphonium, the fantasy ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""The Four Corners of the World"", ""Down Under"", ""Episodes for Brass"", ""Prelude and Rondo"" and ""Seven Up"" for septet, ""Prelude, Romance and Finale"" for brass quartet and the cornet quartet ""Foursome Fantasy"". His arrangements of musicals include ""Calamity Jane"", ""Blossom Time"", ""The Merry Widow"", ""Viva Mexico!"", ""Die Fledermaus"", ""The Chocolate Soldier"" and ""La Périchole"" and his orchestrations of shows for amateur companies remain in demand world wide. Some of his self-composed Dramatic cues were"
"institution. He directed the original production of , with music by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, which opened on Broadway in 2012 and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical. He co-wrote and directed Venice at the Public Theatre in New York which Time magazine named the best musical of 2010. He also directed and co-conceived Clay at Lincoln Center. He is also known for his reimagining of classic musicals including Sunday in the Park with George which played at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, a punk rock production of Pippin, and Hair: Retrospection in collaboration with and starring members"
"the United States. He is understood to have written songs every day, following the trends of the previous year. In the country and western genre, his songs include ""If You're Running Away from Me, I'm Behind You All the Way."" He experimented in psychedelic rock, composing ""The War Between the States of Mind."" He wrote several musical shows, including an adaptation of ""West Side Story"" set in Shakespeare's time, an all-Black ""Finian's Rainbow,"" and the Book of Job in swingtime (considered for development by Cordova). He also wrote special material for industrial productions and did sound design for the Theater"
"Mamas and Papas; The Compleat Works of Wllm Shakespeare (Abridged); The Boy from Oz; Dracula: The Musical; Streakin’: A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s’;"" and ""Bingo: The Winning Musical"". Among his many other credits are ""The Laramie Project; Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Children’s Hour; Doubt; Master Class; The Diary of Anne Frank; Eleemosynary;"" etc. With Ellen Michelmore, he co-authored ""1968: Rock the World,"" an original musical that played out its story against songs of the 1960s. He founded Theatre Three's ""Annual Festival of One-Act Plays"" for which he has directed over one hundred world premieres, selected"
"revival of ""Grease"" (1994), ""Annie Get Your Gun"" (1999), ""Bells Are Ringing"" (2001), ""Brooklyn The Musical"" (2004), and ""Grey Gardens"" (2006). Off-Broadway he appeared in ""One More Song/One More Dance"" (1983) with Ann Reinking, choreographed ""Bouncers"" (1987) and ""Comic Potential"" (2000), and directed ""Holy Cross Sucks!"" (2005). His regional theater credits include the First National Tour of ""Irving Berlin’s White Christmas"" presented by Theater of the Stars (2008), ""Shenandoah"" at the Ford’s Theater (2006) and ""Himself and Nora"", a musical based on James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, which he choreographed and co-directed (with Joseph Hardy) for the Old Globe Theatre"
"with the Wind""), contemporary affairs (""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"" and ""Of Mice and Men""), love stories, classic novels (""Wuthering Heights""), fantasies/musicals, (""The Wizard of Oz""), tragic plays (""Dark Victory""), westerns (""Stagecoach""), and comedies (""Ninotchka""). Each of the five nominees for Best Director of 1939 went on to become a legendary film director with multiple acclaimed films to his credit: Frank Capra, Victor Fleming, John Ford, Sam Wood, and William Wyler. These figures, as reported in the ""Box Office Digest"" of March 1940, are not necessarily the sums that were taken in during 1939 – and in particular for films"
"the pre-Broadway try-out at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles and, in 2007, on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, opposite David Hyde Pierce. She left ""Curtains"" in February 2008, and returned to London's West End to originate the role of Scarlett in Trevor Nunn's musical adaption of ""Gone With The Wind"" (2008). Nunn had been working on the project while Paice was still working on ""The Woman in White"", and so she was able to do several readings and workshops for Nunn's project. The large-scale production of ""Gone With The Wind"" ran over three hours long and closed after 79"
"performances at Glastonbury. For the Old Vic Theatre, where he was based from 1920 to 1924, he produced and sang in ""The Marriage of Figaro"" and ""The Magic Flute"" (1920), and ""Don Giovanni"" (1921). He also toured at home and in Europe in the vocal sextet called The English Singers. Clive Carey became a teacher of singing at the RCM. His pupils there over a number of decades until his death in 1968 included: Edith Coates, Rita Hunter, Arnold Matters, Elsie Morison, Margaret Nisbett, John Noble, Alberto Remedios, Betty Roe, Eric Shilling, Joan Sutherland, Ava June and David Ward. In"
"Studios. He directed ""The Magic Shoes"" (1935), the first screen performance of Peter Finch. He also worked as supervisor of productions at radio station 2CH in Sydney. His last stage work in Australia was as Col. Buffalo Bill in the Australian premiere in Melbourne, and subsequent three-year tour, of ""Annie Get Your Gun"" from 1947–50. Claude Flemming Claude Flemming (1884–1952) was an Australian actor, writer, producer and director of theatre and film whose varied stage career spanned the first half of the 20th century. He performed in Shakespeare and other drama, as well as opera, and became a music comedy"
"A second national tour opened in Atlantic City on June 14, 2007 with Matthew Friedman and Kyle Martin in the lead role of Piano Man. A third National Tour opened in La Crosse, Wisconsin on November 4, 2008 with Matthew Friedman, Kyle Martin, and Jon Abrams in the lead role of Piano Man. On October 15, 2002, a live cast recording was released featuring the 2002 original Broadway cast. It was a single CD featuring 30 tracks. Movin' Out (musical) Movin' Out is a 2002 jukebox musical featuring the songs of Billy Joel. Conceived by Twyla Tharp, the musical tells"
"Moye Stephens in the same OX-5 Travel Air. Moye Stephens was a stunt pilot for Hollywood movies produced by Howard Hughes and Cecil B. DeMille. He gave Hughes flying lessons, and knew Victor Fleming, Gone With The Wind director, as well as various movie stars. In 1926 with J.M. Hiatt, a Stanford classmate, he wrote stories, ""The Assault Upon Miracle Castle"", and ""Ghosts of the Air"", both published in ""Weird Tales"", a magazine still in existence. He also co-authored science-fiction for Weird Tales, gave flying lessons to Howard Hughes and flew as a stunt pilot in Hughes' silent movie extravaganza,"
"Time"". In 1927, Ross and Dudley Glass, an Australian composer, collaborated on a musical based on ""The Beloved Vagabond"" by W. J. Locke. His last works were produced in 1930: the English adaptation of the operetta ""Friederike"" for the Palace Theatre, and a musical based on ""The Toymaker of Nuremberg"" by Austin Strong, which was produced as a Kingsway Theatre Christmas entertainment. Ross collaborated extensively with the foremost British-based composers of musical theatre active during his productive period, including Carr, Ivan Caryll, Monckton, Leslie Stuart and Sidney Jones, and later Paul Rubens, Harold Fraser-Simson, Howard Talbot and Messager. Sixteen of"
"classical theatre he worked with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Anthony Quayle and Richard Burton. After successful Shakespearian seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon, he starred in the musical ""Lock Up Your Daughters"" which launched the Mermaid Theatre in London. He also found success as Captain Hook in several Christmas productions of ""Peter Pan"". Later he would tour Australia as Fagin in the musical ""Oliver"" which he also produced. His film career included a standout performance as the monstrous astronaut in ""The Quatermass Xperiment"", which launched Hammer Film Productions’ famous run as the UK’s foremost producers of horror movies. Later"
"a playwright called Edward Rose.) Schaefer quit the project and Drake quickly followed. The scheduled November 26 opening at the Mark Hellinger Theatre was cancelled, and the project never was revived. Zenda (musical) Zenda is a musical with a book by Everett Freeman, lyrics by Lenny Adelson, Sid Kuller, and Martin Charnin, and music by Vernon Duke. Based on the 1894 Anthony Hope novel ""The Prisoner of Zenda"", it sets the action in contemporary times and transforms the protagonist into British song-and-dance man Richard Rassendyl, who is invited to perform at the wedding of Princess Flavia and King Rudolph of"
"Broadway productions of ""Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, School of Rock: The Musical, Rock of Ages, In The Heights, The Lion King, Jersey Boys, Pippin (revival), Jesus Christ Superstar (revival), Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark,"" and ""Million Dollar Quartet"". In addition to performing with Billy Joel himself at Movin' Out, Bergamini has also performed with Bumblefoot, Dennis DeYoung and Deborah Gibson. Bergamini was born in Belleville, New Jersey, and grew up in East Hanover. He attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology, receiving a bachelor's degree in architecture while studying drums with Dom Famularo on Long Island, as well"
"The narration was musically scored by Atlanta musician Sam T. Wilhoit, and the narration was read by Hollywood actor Victor Jory, who appeared in the original motion picture ""Gone with the Wind"". All parties donated their time and labor. In later years, a revised narration was produced and narrated by actor Shepperd Strudwick. The museum displayed pictures and artifacts from the Civil War, including the ""Texas"", a steam locomotive that pursued the captured train the ""General"" in the Great Locomotive Chase during the war. This raid was depicted in the 1927 Buster Keaton film ""The General"" and the 1956 Disney"
"graduated at Tónlistarskólinn In Reykjavík. He specialized in legal matters and copyright issues, but also composed for many types of music including music for choirs, brass band music and music for strings and trumpets. He has composed around 30 theatrical works. He composed for musicals ""Grettir"", ""Eva Luna"" and ""Come Dance With Me"", the latter having a run on off-Broadway in 1996. His works have been played by various ensembles like Spilverk þjóðanna, Stuðmenn, Hinn íslenski Þursaflokkur, Tríó Björns Thoroddsen, Blái hatturinn, Les Grand Tango and The Icelandic Sound Company. And just recently (2015–16) he´s been working with the German"
"and Emmy Award. His third son was Marvin Westmore, the founder and CEO of the George Westmore Research Library & Museum. Monte Westmore Montague ""Monte"" Westmore (22 July 1902 – 30 March 1940) was a Hollywood make-up artist, the eldest of six sons of George Westmore. He worked for both the Famous Players-Lasky studio and Selznick International Pictures. He was the head of the makeup department at Selznick and worked on films including ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) and ""Rebecca"" (1940). His death from a heart attack following a tonsillectomy has been credited to the heavy workload on ""Gone with"
"Claude Flemming Claude Flemming (1884–1952) was an Australian actor, writer, producer and director of theatre and film whose varied stage career spanned the first half of the 20th century. He performed in Shakespeare and other drama, as well as opera, and became a music comedy specialist. Flemming was born in Camden, New South Wales. He made his stage début for George Rignold's Shakespeare company in Sydney in 1903. Soon afterwards, in England, he appeared on tour with Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Company and then performed in grand opera at Covent Garden (""Die Meistersinger"", ""The Angelus""). He later played in Edwardian musical"
"in 1991 and the following year The Ensemble Rep Studios produced ""The Nonsense Boy"". Fleming has twice been awarded the Nancy Keesing Writer's Fellowship to the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (1993, 1998), where he wrote ""The Starry Messenger"" and ""Burnt Piano"" (in French ""Le piano brulé""). The latter was staged around Australia and went on to win the New York New Dramatists' Award in the year 2000 and opened in New York City in March 2001. It was short-listed for various awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Award and won the Banff PlayRites Residency, Canada. The Playwright Harold Pinter"
"Blues Away."" The second act's lesser known but crackling ""Fire Crackers/""Song of Freedom"" is also [a] show stopper."" The musical received one 2017 Tony Award nomination, for Best Choreography for Denis Jones. The musical was nominated for the 2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography. Holiday Inn (musical) Holiday Inn (also known as Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical) is a musical based on the Paramount Pictures 1942 film of the same name. The libretto is by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The musical opened on Broadway in 2016 after premiering at"
"Fleming. Mahin wrote ""The Last Gangster"" (1937), then did two Gable films, ""Test Pilot"" (1938), and ""Too Hot to Handle"" (1938). In 1937 MGM paid him $56,000. With Fleming, Mahin did uncredited work on ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939) and worked for about a week on ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). Mahin did another for Gable, ""Boom Town"" (1940) and was reunited with Fleming on ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" (1941). In July 1940 it was reported MGM had paid him $80,833 for the previous year. He did a gangster film for Mervyn LeRoy, ""Johnny Eager"" (1941) and some uncredited"