 The film had five different directors. Richard Thorpe (I) (qv)  shot several weeks of material, none of which appears in the final  film. The studio found his work unsatisfactory and appointed  George Cukor (qv) temporarily. Cukor did not actually film any  scenes; he merely modified Judy Garland (I) (qv)s and  Ray Bolger (qv)s makeup. Victor Fleming (qv) took over from him  and filmed the bulk of the movie, until he was assigned to  _Gone with the Wind (1939)_ (qv). King Vidor (qv) filmed the  remaining sequences, mainly the black and white parts of the film  set in Kansas. Producer Mervyn LeRoy (qv) also directed some  transitional scenes.