Film homage Victor Fleming Douglas Fairbanks The Mollycoddle 1920 Hopi Indians collage 2012
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage Victor Fleming Douglas Fairbanks The Mollycoddle 1920 Hopi Indians collage 2012
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Victor Fleming started out in films as a cameraman for Fairbanks, graduating to director four years later in 1919.
1920's "The Mollycoddle" was shot on the Hopi Indian Reservation in Northern Arizona. Despite the declaration below the Hopi's soon banned non Indians from filming their sacred rituals.
I imagine the words "their savage way" offended them.
"FOREWORD: 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."
Fleming was fond of Arizona. He returned in 1933 to direct Jean Harlow in "Bombshell," the only film she made on location. Fleming was vacationing in Cottonwood in 1949. still nursing the savage reviews he received in 1948 for "Joan of Arc." Fleming died while being rushed to the hospital after having a heart attack in Cottonwood.
He was Clark Gable's favorite director. He requested Fleming after George Cukor was dismissed as the director of "Gone With the Wind."
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