Film homage Douglas Fairbanks The Mollycoddle 1920 Hopi Indian Reservation Arizona 2008
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage Douglas Fairbanks The Mollycoddle 1920 Hopi Indian Reservation Arizona 2008
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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The last time the Hopi tribe allowed their sacred dances to be photographed by outsiders was for "The Mollycoddle" (1920) starring Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939).
It was the directorial debut of the former race driver and cameraman Victor Fleming, who had become Doug's close pal.
(Fleming directed two 1939 released classics,"Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz.")
Victor Flaming died at 59 in 1949 at Cottonwood, Arizona in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
This was the now condescending forward to "The Mollycoddle":
"Our thanks are gratefully expressed to government officials, tribal chiefs, and to the hundreds of picturesque Hopi Indians on their reservation near the Painted Desert of Arizona, who, in their savage way heartily welcomed us to their prehistoric villages and with primitive cheerfulness played an important part in this picture."
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