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Topic: Florence Vidor


  
  King Vidor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Vidor's record as a bankable director accounts for the freedom with which he was able to make a series of memorable and humanistic films, most notably DUEL IN THE SUN (1947) and THE FOUNTAINHEAD (1949).
Vidor spent his last years producing two short films on metaphysics, lecturing at film schools and retrospectives of his work, and trying to interest producers in various projects, including a film based on his investigation of the 1924 William Desmond Taylor murder case.
Vidor's darkly humanistic vision, accompanied (especially in the 1925-35 period) by a striking and eclectic visual style, made him one of the most influential directors of his time.
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 MTV.com - Movies - King Vidor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Vidor took this opportunity to watch the same movies over and over, learning from what he saw and deciding that he could do as good a job as most of the people whose films were up on the screen.
The couple entered the motion-picture business, but Florence Vidor was the far more successful of the two at first, starting out as a bit player and moving up to supporting roles in films such as A Tale of Two Cities (1917) and into starring roles in the late teens and 1920s.
Vidor was one of the few filmmakers of his era who could make such "message" pictures and present their content gracefully.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Actresses (Fio-Fq)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She was born in 1902 at South Shields, Durham and died in 1984 of cancer.
Florence Guerin (also known as Florence Nicolas) is a French actress.
Florence Marryat was an English writer and actress.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Florence Vidor : Biography
By the time the Vidors were divorced in 1923, King had risen to the top of the directorial ladder, while Florence Vidor had become a major star in films like Alice Adams (1923).
Florence's first talkie, Chinatown Nights (1929), was also her last film; it wasn't that she had a poor voice, but simply that the recording equipment available at the time failed to do her voice justice.
Florence Vidor retired to devote her time to her second husband, violinist Jascha Heifetz, and her three children.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: VIDOR, FLORENCE ARTO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Florence Arto Vidor, motion picture actress, daughter of Ida and John F. Arto, was born on July 23, 1895, in Houston.
In early 1915 she and Vidor were married and travelled with Sedgwick from Galveston to California in hopes of employment in the expanding film industry.
Florence married violinist Jascha Heifetz in 1928 and was divorced from him in 1946.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/VV/fvi22_print.html   (414 words)

  
 "Jack Knife Man"
McDowell, Bobby Kelso, Florence Vidor, and Lillian Leighton
Vidor had written scripts based upon the judge's remedial "Boy's City." After receiving backing from the people who had backed the judge's films, he made additional films in 1919.
Vidor's first full-length feature film was "The Turn In The Road" in 1919, a Christian Scientist tract financed by a group of doctors and dentists who formed the Brentwood Film Corporation.
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 Florence Vidor
SETTLED down to a quiet life with no special goal; possessing no girlish longings for a "wonderful" stage career, hugging to herself no romantic visions of a princely lover who would ride past some day and carry her away on his white charger; that was Florence Arto, of Houston, Texas.
He was King Vidor, at the beginning of his screen career.
Vidor proved himself successful in his love venture, for he married the beautiful young Florence and, shortly afterwards, they removed to Los Angeles, the home of motion pictures.
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 Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - July 23, 1895
In 1915 she and Vidor were married and traveled to California in hopes of employment in the expanding film industry.
She and Vidor were divorced in 1924; violinist Jascha Heifetz became her second husband in 1928.
Florence made her last film in 1929 and died in 1977.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/07-23-001.html   (171 words)

  
 The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Vidor's best friend Marie Prevost is an incurable coquette; Marie's divorce-bound husband Adolphe Menjou hires detective Harry Myers to keep tabs on his wife.
Thanks to the misunderstandings of detective Myers, both Blue and Vidor are suspected of infidelity, but all ends well as doctor and wife are reunited and Prevost ends up with her male counterpart Hale.
The first of Ernst Lubitsch's sophisticated sex farces, The Marriage Circle was reportedly Lubitsch's favorite film; he would remake it (and improve upon it tenfold) in 1932 as the sprightly musical One Hour With You, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald.
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 Portrait of the director King Vidor by Thomas Staedeli
After that King Vidor signed at Metro and directed the movies "Three Wise Fools" (23) - where he met his next wife Eleanor Boardman - "The Woman of Bronze" (23), "Wild Oranges" (24) and "Proud Flesh" (25).
King Vidor caught the jumpto the guild of great directors with the movie "The Big Parade" (25) and achieved with this anti war movie an international success.
King Vidor published his autobiography "A Tree Is a Tree" in 1953 and in 1978 he wrote the book "King Vidor on Filmmaking".
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 Are Parents People review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Betty Bronson of "Peter Pan" fame plays the daughter with charm and authority, while Adolphe Menjou and Florence Vidor score as the parents.
Florence Vidor gives a sincere portrayal of the wife, while Adolphe Menjou's characterization of the husband is finely shaded.
Everybody has been anxiously awaiting the release of this picture for two reasons: first, to see if Betty Bronson would measure up to her performance in "Peter Pan"; second, because this is the first production that the youthful director Mal St. Clair has done for Paramount.
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 © Eleanor Boardman - Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
Eleanor Boardman was born on August 19th, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia and attended an art school, before leaving for New York as a teenager to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress.
She also attracted his attention in another way, and eventually became Vidor's second wife, after his divorce from actress Florence Vidor.
In 1931 the couple divorced and a custody battle for the girls ensued for a number of years, even after Eleanor moved to Europe and married director Henri d'Abbadie d'Arrast, a marriage that lasted until his death in 1968.
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 © Theodore Roberts - Silent Movie Actor - goldensilents.com
In all these films his characters were completely different from one another, showing a broad range of acting talent; for instance in "M'Liss" he played an alcoholic father to Mary Pickford, and in "Hail The Woman" he played an autocratic, stern father to Florence Vidor.
Theodore Roberts was married just once, to fellow actress Florence Smythe; she appeared with him in several early silent films.
He was laid to rest next to his beloved wife Florence.
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 Amazon.ca: Video: Marriage Circle, the   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The story concerns two couples, Adolphe Menjou and Marie Prevost who loathe each other and Monte Blue and Florence Vidor who are living a life of married bliss.
Prevost sets out to find love with Blue, who tries desperately to resist her, while Menjou sets out to obtain evidence of infidelity which he can use to obtain a divorce.
The women are beautiful; Florence Vidor is so innocently charming while Marie Prevost is gorgeously provocative.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004W1AH   (959 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: King Vidor
This profoundly realistic examination of struggle and alienation in the big city revealed a virtuoso use of the camera.
Vidor's eclectic tastes and wide interests informed the watershed all-fl musical Hallelujah (1929), the huge hit The Champ (1931), and the Depression drama Our Daily Bread (1934).
Later work ranged from Stella Dallas (1937) and The Fountainhead (1949), to Westerns Duel in the Sun (1947) and Man Without a Star (1955) and the epic War and Peace (1956).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201260   (203 words)

  
 Florence Vidor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Although she divorced Vidor in 1924, they had been separated since 1917.
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 dOc DVD Review: World War I Films of the Silent Era (1916-1917) - Printable
Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Vidor, Jack Holt, Charles Ogle
Starring Sessue Hayakawa (today best known as the commandant of the camp in Bridge on the River Kwai) as Nara-Nara, a Japanese intelligence officer, this picture tells the story of a ring of German spies that has infiltrated the offices of Major John Northfield (Jack Holt).
Among these are his friend Dr. Ebell Smith (Charles Ogle, who starred as the first Frankenstein Monster in 1910) and his love interest, Kitty Little (Florence Vidor).
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=3030   (1002 words)

  
 Classic Images: Jack Oakie Filmography
Florence Allen, Eddie Clayton, Jane Keckley, Joe Brown, Kay Bryant.
Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland, Frank Chew, Jack McHugh, Tetsu Komai, Peter Morrison, Freemon Wood, Mrs.
Sc by Florence Ryerson, Patrick Kearney, Walton Butterfield, dialogue by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, story "Elmer the Great" by Ring Lardner, George M. Cohan.
www.classicimages.com /1997/february/jackoakie_films.html   (3051 words)

  
 Product Listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Actor/Actors: Charles Ogle, Florence Vidor, Jack Holt, Sessue Hayakawa
Synopsis: The astonishing films in this collection show and explain essential news and propaganda functions of the movies during the Great War of 1914-1918.
Reported when new as a "timely release," it's a detective story in which representatives of Japan (our ally in 1917-18) and the United States work hand-in-hand to frustrate German agents in their effort to get information about American transport sailings on the Pacific.
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 The Virginian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Virginian (1914 film) - a silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Dustin Farnum;
The Virginian (1923 film) - a silent film directed by Tom Forman and starring Kenneth Harlan and Florence Vidor;
The Virginian (1929 film) - a silent film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Huston and Richard Arlen;
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Virginian   (225 words)

  
 Princeton University Press Out of Print Titles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence: The Humanist As Bureaucrat.
Bunce, V. Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence.
Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori and Rucellai.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Florence Vidor : Main
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The Vidors traveled to Hollywood in their second-hand Model T (which also served as their "home"), financing their trip by filming travelogu...
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 MTV.com - Movies - Conquering the Woman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Florence Vidor, Mathilde Brundage, Peter Burke, David Butler, Roscoe Karns
This is not one of the better collaborations between director King Vidor and his then-wife, Florence Vidor.
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - The Patriot
The film earned five Academy Award nominations including for best picture, director, actor (Lewis Stone) and production design for Hans Dreier's marble palace sets, winning the statue for Best Writing Achievement for Hans Kraly's screenplay.
Harry Cording, Neil Hamilton, Emil Jannings, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina, Florence Vidor
AMC Movie Camp: Make a movie in a week!
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 ABAS: Ambrose Bierce Bibliography
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (O Monge e a Filha do Carrasco), by Walter Lima Jr., color feature, 1995
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge (The Spy), by Charles Vidor, b&w silent short, 1928,
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge (La Riviere du hibou), by Robert Enrico, b&w short, 1962 [Part of In The Midst of Life, 1963]
www.biercephile.com /bibliography.cfm   (5598 words)

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