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Why was Sam Wood not credited for directing Gone with the Wind?
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(Foreground, from left to right) Groucho Marx, Margaret Dumont, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx in A Night at the Opera (1935), directed by Sam Wood.
Sam Wood was not credited for directing Gone with the Wind because he was brought in to work on the film only after the primary director, Victor Fleming, became ill.1
While Wood spent considerable time co-directing the production for the studio, his contributions remained uncredited, and Fleming alone received the Academy Award for best director for the film.21