Victor Fleming 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
The Wind Done Gone original's title. Cynara's name comes from the Ernest Dowson poem "Non sum qualís eram bonae sub regno Cynarae", a line from which ("I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind") was the origin of Mitchell's novel's title. "Gone with the Wind" revolves around Scarlett O'Hara, a pampered Southern woman, who lives through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. "The Wind Done Gone" is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation and the daughter of Scarlett's father and Mammy. Sold from the O'Haras, Cynara eventually makes her way back to Atlanta