Victor Fleming he also proved an effective director of women. Under his direction, Vivien Leigh won the Best Actress Oscar, Hattie McDaniel won for Best Supporting Actress, and Olivia De Havilland was nominated. In 1932, Fleming joined MGM and directed some of the studio's most prestigious films. "Red Dust" (1932), "Bombshell" (1933), and "Reckless" (1935) showcasing Jean Harlow, while "Treasure Island" (1934) and "Captains Courageous" (1937) brought a touch of literary distinction to boy's-own adventure stories. His two most famous films came in 1939, when "The Wizard of Oz" was closely followed by "Gone With the Wind". Fleming's version of "Dr. Jekyll
Gone with the Wind (novel) time to a man who shared her interest in writing and literature. He had also been best man at her first wedding. Margaret Mitchell began writing "Gone with the Wind" in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from a slow-healing auto-crash injury. In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor looking for new fiction, read her manuscript and saw that it could be a best-seller. After Latham agreed to publish the book, Mitchell worked for another six months checking the historical references and rewriting the opening chapter several times. Mitchell and her husband John Marsh, a copy editor