Frank Borzage
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 23, 1894
- Died
- June 19, 1962 (aged 68)
- Birthplace
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), Bad Girl (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), Man's Castle (1933), History Is Made at Night (1937), The Mortal Storm (1940) and Moonrise (1948). In 1912 Borzage found employment as an actor in Hollywood; he continued to work as an actor until 1917. His directorial debut came in 1915 with the film The Pitch o' Chance. He was a successful director throughout the 1920s, but reached his peak in the late silent and early sound era. Absorbing visual influences from the German director F.W. Murnau, who was also resident at Fox at this time, Borzage developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including 7th Heaven (1927), for which he won the first Academy Award for Best Director, Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929). He won a second Oscar for 1931's Bad Girl. He directed 14 films between 1917 and 1919 alone. His greatest success in the silent era was with Humoresque, a box office winner starring Vera Gordon. Borzage's trademark was intense identification with the feelings of young lovers in the face of adversity, with love in his films triumphing over such trials as World War I (7th Heaven and A Farewell to Arms), disability (Lucky Star), the Depression (Man's Castle), a thinly disguised version of the Titanic disaster in History Is Made at Night, and the rise of Nazism, a theme which Borzage had virtually to himself among Hollywood filmmakers from Little Man, What Now? (1933) to Three Comrades (1938) and The Mortal Storm (1940). His work took a spiritual turn in such films as Green Light (1937), Strange Cargo (1940) and The Big Fisherman (1959). Of his later work only the film noir Moonrise (1948) has enjoyed much critical acclaim. After 1948, Borzage's output was sporadic. In 1955 and 1957, he was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Frank Borzage died of cancer in 1962, aged 68.
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The Pride and the Man
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Dollars of Dross
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Journey Beneath the Desert
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The Big Fisherman
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China Doll
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The Day I Met Caruso
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A Ticket for Thaddeus
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Moonrise
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That's My Man
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I've Always Loved You
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Magnificent Doll
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The Spanish Main
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Till We Meet Again
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His Butler's Sister
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Stage Door Canteen
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Seven Sweethearts
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The Vanishing Virginian
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Smilin' Through
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Billy the Kid
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The Mortal Storm
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I Take This Woman
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Strange Cargo
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Flight Command
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Disputed Passage
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Mannequin
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The Shining Hour
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Three Comrades
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History Is Made at Night
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Big City
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Green Light
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Desire
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Hearts Divided
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Stranded
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Shipmates Forever
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Living on Velvet
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Flirtation Walk
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No Greater Glory
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Little Man, What Now?
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Secrets
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Man's Castle
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A Farewell to Arms
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After Tomorrow
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Young America
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Bad Girl
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Doctors' Wives
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Young as You Feel
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Liliom
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Song o' My Heart
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Lucky Star
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The River
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They Had to See Paris
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Street Angel
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7th Heaven
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The First Year
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The Dixie Merchant
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Marriage License?
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Early to Wed
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Lazybones
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The Circle
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The Lady
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
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Wages for Wives
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Secrets
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The Nth Commandment
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The Age of Desire
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Children of Dust
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Back Pay
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The Pride of Palomar
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Billy Jim
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The Good Provider
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The Valley of Silent Men
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
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The Duke of Chimney Butte
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Humoresque
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Toton
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Prudence on Broadway
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
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Society for Sale
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The Gun Woman
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The Ghost Flower
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The Atom
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The Shoes That Danced
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The Curse of Iku
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Innocent's Progress
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An Honest Man
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Who Is to Blame?
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Until They Get Me
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Flying Colors
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Nugget Jim's Pardner
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The Pilgrim
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Life's Harmony
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Land O' Lizards
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The Silken Spider
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A Flickering Light
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The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
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Immediate Lee
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The Quicksands of Deceit
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Two Bits
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Unlucky Luke
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The Code of Honor
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Jack
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The Demon of Fear
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That Gal of Burke's
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Nell Dale's Men Folks
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The Forgotten Prayer
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Matchin' Jim
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The Pitch o' Chance
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