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Alexander Korda Alexander Korda remains an elusive figure and there are still arguments over whether he should best be considered a charlatan or a visionary. It was Korda's own favourite, but the downbeat story of an artist at odds with society was uncommercial, and with two flops in a row and large, new studios at Denham to run, Korda temporarily hung up his directorial hat. Korda was knighted in June 1942 (for his contribution to the war effort). www.parkcircus.com /search/collections/korda.html   (378 words)

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alexander Korda   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Sir Alexander Korda (September 16, 1893 - January 23, 1956) was a film director and producer, a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of London Films. The Alexander Korda Award for the "Outstanding British Film of the Year" is given in his honor by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alexander-Korda   (1167 words)

Wikipedia: Alexander Korda Alexander Korda (September 16, 1893 - January 23, 1956) was a film director and producer, a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of "London Films". Korda was born in Hungary, where he worked as a journalist before going into films as a producer. The Red Shoes was also originally meant to be a Korda film and was meant as a vehicle for his future wife Merle Oberon. www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/a/al/alexander_korda.html   (211 words)

Alexander Korda - Films as director: Alexander Korda may be Britain's most controversial film figure, but there is no doubt that his name stands everywhere for the most splendid vision of cinema as it could be, if one had money and power. Korda had two younger brothers, Zoltan, who worked with him as a director, and Vincent, who was an art director; both were outstanding in their fields. Korda then married Oberon and started to set the stage for her stardom. www.filmreference.com /Directors-Jo-Ku/Korda-Alexander.html   (1149 words)

Alexander Korda Alexander Korda (September 16, 1893 - January 23, 1956) was a film director and producer, a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of "London Films". Korda was born in Hungary, where he worked as a journalist before going into films as a producer. The Red Shoes was also originally meant to be a Korda film and was meant as a vehicle for his future wife Merle Oberon. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alexander_Korda.html   (190 words)

Alexander Korda - Biography - Moviefone The first motion picture producer ever to receive a knighthood, Alexander Korda was a guiding force behind the British film industry throughout the 1930s as a studio chief, producer, and sometime director, and continued as a major -- and highly influential -- film producer until his death in 1956. Korda also saw success with a handful subsequent movies, including The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Ghost Goes West (1935), and The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936), but in point of fact, most of the movies produced by Korda after The Private Life of Henry VIII failed financially, or did little better than break even. The financial underpinnings of Korda's studio were as shaky as ever, and with his death in early 1956, London Films was closed down. movies.aol.com /celebrity/alexander-korda/97893/biography   (833 words)

Alexander Korda at AllExperts Sir Alexander Korda (September 16 1893 - January 23 1956) was a film director and producer, a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of London Films. Alexander Korda was married three times, the first to Hungarian actress María Corda in 1919. The Alexander Korda Award for the "Outstanding British Film of the Year" is given in his honor by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/alexander_korda.htm   (522 words)

Alexander Korda: Biography Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. In 1919, he assisted the Communist government (though Korda was not a member of the Communist party) when it made Hungary the first nationalized film industry in the world. Korda felt that the only way to bring the English film industry to prominence would be by concentrating on quality films (a mantra shared in common with the future SIMPP founders in America). www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/alexander-korda_biography.htm   (964 words)

[No title] Sir Alexander Korda, a Hungarian cosmopolitan, was one of the many promising European directors that emigrated to Hollywood during the 1920s. Alexander Mackendrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1912 and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. Alexander Korda was married three times, the first to Hungarian actress María Corda in 1919. www.lycos.com /info/alexander-korda.html   (363 words)

Alexander Korda | Biography (1893-1956) Even though Korda considered the script stage the most important in the making of the film (he worked uncredited on many of the scripts of his and others' movies), the basic structure of his films is often too flimsy to support their load of overelaborate detail. Korda was forced to add cheaper features to his production schedules and to accept independent producers as tenants to fill Denham's empty stages. Korda was almost as famous for the films he did not make as the ones he did - indeed, he received the honour of having an entire television documentary devoted to footage from a film I Claudius (directed by Josef von Sternberg), which was abandoned after a month's shooting. www.leninimports.com /alexander_korda.html   (1497 words)

Alexander Korda Alexander Korda (1893-1956), director y productor de cine británico de origen húngaro, que realizó películas en diversos países como, Austria, Alemania, EEUU y Francia con anterioridad a su definitivo establecimiento en la industria británica. Korda tenía una gran perspectiva profesional y eso le condujo a ser consciente con rapidez de cuales eran las principales carencias de la industria británica, por una parte su falta de inversión en equipamientos, estudios y mano de obra; y de otro lado, su inadecuada distribución. Korda se marchó entonces a Hollywood para completar El Ladrón de Bagdad; permaneciendo allí tres años durante los que rodó Lady Hamilton (1941), un y El libro de la selva (1942), que dirigió su hermano Zoltan. cinegor.granadaenlared.com /dalexanderkorda.htm   (622 words)

[No title] The elder brother of future filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent Korda, Alexander Korda was born Sándor László Kellner in Pusztatúrpásztó in Austria-Hungary (now Hungary), where he worked as a journalist before going into films as a producer. Korda was responsible for the teaming of the English director Michael Powell with the Hungarian writer-producer Emeric Pressburger, a partnership which was to bear fruit in some of the finest British films of the forties and fifties (e.g. I had to refuse since at that time I was committed to Korda and he wouldn't let me go; in the event I was glad I did, since that film marked the cinematographic debut of the composer who at that time was the undisputed leader of music in England, Ralph Vaughan Williams. www.lycos.com /info/alexander-korda--hollywood.html   (632 words)

German 43: Resources: Biographies: Korda, Alexander Alexander Korda's willingness to experiment and be daring allowed the flowering of talent such as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and gave early breaks to people such as Laurence Olivier, David Lean and Carol Reed to name but a few. Korda sold his library to television in the 1950's thus allowing his famous logo of Big Ben to be preserved. Sir Alexander Korda was the first British film producer to receive a knighthood. www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/w01/resources/biographies/korda-a.html   (235 words)

Amazon.ca: Rembrandt: Video: Alexander Korda,Charles Laughton,Gertrude Lawrence,Elsa Lanchester,Edward Chapman,Walter ...   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Meticulously directed by Alexander Korda, this film should be seen by all art aficionados, and those who love Rembrandt's work, as you will love it even more after seeing this film. This film is an outstanding item among Alexander Korda's almost single-handed efforts beginning in the 1930s to transform British cinema from an industry dominated by worthless "quota quickies" to a first-class competitor in world cinema. Korda had a prominent hand in such great classics as The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Four Feathers, The Thief of Baghdad, and many others; this level of greatness is akin, for example, to what a company like Pixar is doing with animation in movies such as Toy Story today. www.amazon.ca /Rembrandt-Alexander-Korda/dp/0792845943   (1124 words)

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Alexander Korda, producer, director, movie mogul, and financier, lived a life that reads like a Hollywood script - Hungarian peasant farm boy becomes multi-millionaire and is eventually knighted by King George VI. Korda's next film, the Technicolor fantasy The Thief of Baghdad (1940) was already being filmed when war was declared in September 1939 and the production had to be moved to the United States where it was completed in 1940. Thirty years later, Korda's nephew Michael would write, "Alex was not only providing cover for the attempt to spy on German activities in the United States, he was also involved in the British effort to discover whether or not they were receiving accurate information from President Roosevelt and his emissaries. www.tcm.com /thismonth/article.jsp?cid=111453   (2465 words)

Sir Alexander Korda   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Korda helped found the Hungarian film industry and worked in the studios of Vienna, Berlin and Hollywood before becoming a naturalized and, in 1943, a knighted Englishman. After a stay in Berlin Korda was invited to Hollywood in 1926, where he soon realized that the talents of his actress wife Maria were in greater demand than his own. Korda, whose second wife was actress Merle Oberon, helped launch the careers of Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton and Robert Donat, among many. theoscarsite.com /whoswho/korda_a.htm   (424 words)

Alexander Korda   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The pan across the boudoir that follows fixes Korda's situation: he does not mean to modernize the play at all. By the sort of paradox that is the bane of Lord Goring's social existence, this brings Korda to a most modern moment of dazzling acuity, which is Hugh Williams' walk through the House after he has made his speech in the expectation of imminent exposure and ruin. This is crowned by his dejection along the Thames in the succeeding shot, a striking design. cmulrooney.tripod.com /kordaalexander.html   (125 words)

Korda Alexander Korda lion pin in silver color metal with red rhinestone accents. The pin seems to be missing a silver chain that would have hung from the bottom of the saber handle to the ear of the genie. It is signed Thief of Baghdad, Korda and the numbers 113 on the left and 61 on the right. www.treasures-in-time.com /korda.htm   (181 words)

Alexander KORDA : Biographie de Alexander KORDA - Monsieur-Biographie.com Si vous avez rédigée une biographie de Alexander KORDA, vous pouvez nous la proposer via le formulaire de contact. Alexander Korda - Wikipédia : Sir Alexander Korda, également connu en France comme Alexandre Korda,... Alexander Korda - Biographie de Alexander Korda (Scénariste)... www.monsieur-biographie.com /celebrite/biographie/alexander_korda-6062.php   (219 words)

Sir Alexander Korda Biography One of the most colourful figures in British films, Korda was also the most ambitious and at one time appeared to be single handily saving the industry. The bubble burst and the studios were sold up, but after the war Korda renewed his energies, producing such post-war successes as The Third Man (1949). His brother Zoltan was an able director in his own right of such films as The Four Feathers (1939), and another brother, Vincent, an excellent art director. www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/k/003.html   (202 words)

Sir Alexander Korda   (Site not responding. Last check: ) After a stay in Berlin Korda was invited to Hollywood in 1926, where he soon realized that the talents of his actress wife Maria were in greater demand than his own. In Paris, Korda collaborated with his brother Vincent on MARIUS (1931) before moving to England and establishing his own company, London Film Productions, in 1932. Korda, whose second wife was actress Merle Oberon, helped launch the careers of Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton and Robert Donat, among many. www.theoscarsite.com /whoswho/korda_a.htm   (424 words)

Alexander Korda Sándor Kellner / Sir Alexander Korda / Sándor Korda / Korda Sándor Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Alexander Korda Find where Alexander Korda is credited alongside another name www.imdb.com /name/nm0466099   (429 words)

screenonline: Alexander Korda and London Films As a result the films tended to share both Korda's strengths - high production standards, a lush visual style - and his faults - a focus on lavish set and costume design, often at the expense of the details of character and plot, and a rather superficial approach to storytelling. was already in decline before Korda's death in 1956, after his ill-fated involvement in Four 1930s Alexander Korda films that championed the British Empire www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/445197   (619 words)

Alexander Korda Here is part one of her life story. merle oberon • laurence olivier • alexander korda • "these three" • "the divorce of lady x" She is loved for being Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois, and rightfully so. www.suite101.com /reference/alexander_korda   (172 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Alexander Korda : Biography VH1.com : Movies : Person : Alexander Korda : Biography The first motion picture producer ever to receive a knighthood, Alexander Korda was a guiding force behind the British film industry throughout the 1930s as a studio chief, producer, and sometime director, and continued as a major -- and highly E-commerce on this website is brought to you by MTVN Direct Inc. www.vh1.com /movies/person/86497/bio.jhtml   (848 words)

Buy.com - Four Feathers : DVD : Ralph Richardson : Alexander Korda : MGM Buy.com - Four Feathers : DVD : Ralph Richardson : Alexander Korda : MGM Currently Unavailable: This item is currently unavailable from the Manufacturer. Terms of Use Copyright 1997-2007 Buy.com Inc., All rights reserved. www.buy.com /prod/four_feathers/q/loc/322/40706348.html   (236 words)

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