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) "Gone With the Wind", Margaret Mitchell hesitated to blame black 'insolence' during Reconstruction solely on 'mean niggers', of which, she said, there were few even in slavery days." Critics say that Mitchell downplayed the violent role of the Ku Klux Klan and their abuse of freedmen. Author Pat Conroy, in his preface to a later edition of the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having "the same romanticized role it had in "The Birth of a Nation" and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society". Regarding the historical