Victor Flemings influence on Gone with the Wind

The New Yorker has a great article, The Real Rhett Butler, about Victor Flemings influence and affect on the film Gone with the Wind.  In 1939, Fleming directed both Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.  The article discusses how Fleming drove Clark Gable to feel confident to play Rhett, and that David O. Selznicks various love-affairs gave him more insight into the female characters. Basically Selznick was Scarlett to Rhett's Fleming.  It's an interesting read, and provides more insight into the filming of the movie.

Picture of Fleming on the set with Vivien and Clark.