Victor Fleming at the time of the casting, Fleming was working on the film "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", which featured a British producer and a cast largely composed of British or British Commonwealth actors. Furthermore, Revere did not know Fleming beyond their professional relationship. 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
Victor Fleming and Mr. Hyde" (1941), with Spencer Tracy, was generally rated below Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 pre-code version, which had starred Fredric March. Fleming's 1942 film version of John Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat" starred Tracy, John Garfield, Hedy Lamarr, and Frank Morgan. Other films that Fleming made with Tracy include "Captains Courageous" (for which Tracy won his first Oscar), "A Guy Named Joe", and "Test Pilot". He directed Clark Gable in a total of five films – "Red Dust", "The White Sister", "Test Pilot", "Gone with the Wind", and "Adventure". He owned the Moraga Estate in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, then a