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  Frank Borzage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Borgaze (April 23, 1893 - June 19, 1962) was an Italian-American film director famed for his mystical romanticism.
Borzage was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Frank Borzage died in 1962 at the age of 69, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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 film comment magazine
Borzage's artistic vision was not a loose conglomeration of tics, talents, and obsessions to be tallied up at the end of his career.
Borzage's work is actually missing one of the most consistent features of romantic fiction in the cinema, the deferral of romantic union by circumstance or self-delusion.
Borzage's cinema is sexual, to be sure, but sex is never an end in itself, nor is it a prelude to the bourgeois stability of home and hearth: it is a spiritual act that raises lovers into the heavens.
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 Frank Borzage
Borzage was known for his ability to create an extremely intimate atmosphere on the set of his films, an intimacy that played itself out primarily through a relationship between the director and his actors in which the actors often felt as though they were enveloped in a nurturing and romantic environment.
Borzage himself sometimes spoke of the importance of directing his actors in such a way that the performances and the emotions of the scene were completed by the spectator: “Make the audience sentimental instead of the player.
Borzage's tendency in filming the face is one which aims towards an effect of slight immobility, the features not so much in motion and continually connoting thought as they are poised between movement and stasis, between the expression of emotion and the withdrawal of it.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/borzage.html   (5594 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Frank Borzage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank Borzage (pronounced "Bor-ZAY-gee") was of Swiss, Italian, and Austrian ancestry, born in Salt Lake City, UT, the fourth of eight children of an Italian-speaking stone mason father and a German-speaking mother.
In 1940, Borzage also directed The Mortal Storm, an unusual pre-World War II Hollywood attack on the social order of Nazi Germany, depicting the destruction of an innocent family; it is probably the Borzage movie that plays best to modern audiences.
Moonrise (1949) was Borzage's venture into the dark psychological eddies of film noir, and was one of his finest efforts, beautifully directed and filled with visually stunning scenes, though the script's weaknesses kept it from being regarded as a classic.
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 Encyclopedia: Frank Borzage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Frank Borzage has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd. An example of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, for the film actress Carole Lombard.
Borzage's output after the war was marked by a decline - very relative considering the quality of films such as Magnificent Doll (1946) or Moonrise (1948).
Frank Borzage was in Dublin filming SONG O' MY HEART in 1930, when Maureen, then 18, met the director.
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 Grave Hunter finds Frank Borzage burial place   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
FRANK BORZAGE directed over 100 films during his 40-year career, most of which centered on his idealized vision of romantic love.
Borzage's last film, "The Big Fisherman", starring Howard Keel and Susan Kohner, was adapted from Lloyd C. Douglas's novel about the life of Saint Peter.
All of Borzage's sound films have survived although at least 46 of his earlier films are thought to be lost.
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 Frank Borzage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Borzage switched from acting to directing in 1916, bringing to the screen a dedication to romanticism that became his trademark.
Although undoubtedly sentimental--and criticized by some for it--his films, from "Humoresque" (1920) through "Moonrise" (1948), were not only undeniably popular but, at their best, were also the moving, highly artful and visually enthralling work of an instantly recognizable filmmaker, a genuine auteur.
Borzage was a pioneer in the use of techniques, such as soft focus, that have become standards of romantic filmmaking....
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The work of Frank Borzage—more than 100 films in forty years—is one of the best-kept secrets of the American cinema yet the director remains an elusive figure in film history.
Borzage’s works are often difficult to obtain, another explanation for his obscurity.
Many Borzage films would later vividly reflect these early experiences, mainly the anguish and uncertainty caused by poverty, and the spiritual wealth brought by love, family life, and solidarity.
www.silentsoundfilms.freeserve.co.uk /Borzage.htm   (381 words)

  
 Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Frank Borzage (1894-1962) was born and educated in Salt Lake City.
The Frank Borzage Collection spans the years 1921-1967 and encompasses 1.0 linear foot.
Of particular interest are a half dozen 1930s contracts; records of Borzage's earnings from 1929 to 1931; and his 1931 pilot license and pilot log.
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 Anti-Fascism in Soft Focus?
Frank Borzage, a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, had been working in Hollywood since the 1910s, first as an actor and then, since the middle of that decade, as a director.
Frank Borzage's role in all of this is extraordinarily elusive.
Borzage was one of the few directors in Hollywood who could have turned such often maudlin material into effective drama.
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 UCLA Film & Television Archive - Collections - Frank Borzage
Borzage's earliest films, mainly westerns and melodramas, were made for the Thomas Ince studio.
Borzage's last film, THE BIG FISHERMAN (1959), starring Howard Keel and Susan Kohner, was adapted from Lloyd C. Douglas's novel about the life of Saint Peter.All of Borzage's sound films have survived although at least 46 of his earlier films are thought to be lost.
Of the 31 films shown in the Borzage retrospective organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, eight have been preserved by UCLA including AFTER TOMORROW, YOUNG AMERICA, LILIOM, the 1933 version of SECRETS (which marks Mary Pickford's final screen appearance) and HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT.
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 Frank Borzage @ Filmbug
Frank Borzage was an Italian-American film director famed for his mystical romanticism.
His last film work was sequences on Edgar G. Ulmer's L' Atlantide (aka Journey Beneath The Desert) (1962), for which he went uncredited.
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 pseudopodium: Borzage
Which brings me, as I'm brought so often, to thoughts of that master of mature collaborative pain, Frank Borzage...
Borzage (along with most of the other narrative artists I love) shows by example that melodrama is not a guarantee of success, to be clung to; nor a guarantee of failure, to be shunned.
He worked, uncredited, on Frank Borzage's sublime History Is Made at Night, but that's not exactly a laff riot.
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 Frank Borzage
The director Of Italo-Austrian descent on his father's side, Swiss German on his mother's, Frank Borzage was born on April 24, 1894, in Salt Lake City.
The fourth child in a very large family of immigrants, he had a happy childhood despite financial strain.
The next year, arriving in Hollywood (which had just been "founded"), he acted in a film by Thomas Harper Ince, who was an important influence on him.
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 Biography for Maureen O'Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After more school in Paris, back in Dublin, she met director Frank Borzage who was doing location filming for Fox and who invited her to Hollywood where she arrived, accompanied by her mother, in 1930.
Frank Borzage was in Dublin filming Song o' My Heart (1930) in 1930, when Maureen, then 18, met the director.
A few years later she was signed by MGM, where she spent the bulk of her screen career playing virginal inge nues, and had substantial secondary roles in such classics as David Copperfield, Anna Karenina (both 1935) and Pride and Prejudice (1940), not to mention The Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races (1937).
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 Silent Era: People: Directors: Frank Borzage
Brother of actor Daniel Borzage; brother of assistant director Lew Borzage.
Frank Borzage began film work as an actor in 1912; he directed his first film in 1913.
Borzage worked as actor for American Film Company circa 1916.
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 Blogcritics.org: That's Right Gibson--It's Strange Cargo, not Strange Carcass
Frank Borzage uses every convention of the ultimate Nietzschean genre (the prison-break film) to build his case against romantic "empowerment"--which is really just the flipside of asceticism.
He sends God (Cambreau) in to pinch-run in the equivalent of the second inning, and he stays in there to run things for the rest of the game.
Borzage (like Morrison) is saying: "I got yer vindication right here!" You are God--and that's a heavy responsibility.
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - Bad Girl
Without condescending or adding artificial excitement, Borzage creates interest out of the texture of everyday life--their love for each other and their struggle to survive.
Audience members looking for a "bad girl," however, will be disappointed: Aside from conceiving a child before marriage, both members of the couple are wholesome representatives of the Depression-era generation.
Frank Austin, Frank Darien, James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Paul Fix, Minna Gombell, Sarah Padden, William Pawley
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 The Swine who Rewrote F. Scott Fitzgerald: Joseph L. Mankiewicz as Producer
A ham like Wallace Beery can get away with wiping his open hand slowly across his face the way Tracy does, because deep down inside us we believe Beery is the same oaf off-screen as on; but Tracy never lets us forget that he is more intelligent than the poor guy he's satirizing.
But in Three Comrades, the game is no longer Borzage's, but Mankiewicz's, who was always there on the set, perpetually helpful, and Sullavan is merely an actress, devouring scenes with in-your-face calculation, milking a small repertoire of synthetic poses, stage tricks, and robotic gestures.
We both had good parts, the kind the critics call 'fully realized.' The story line was strong and the screenplay was splendid and Frank Borzage let us take it and run.
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 DigiGuide : Frank Borzage
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 Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 June 19 in History
Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 June 19 in History
Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Stage Door Canteen (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is certainly interesting to have this dramatic moment pop up at the end of this film, but the cause was certainly worthwhile.
Eighty percent of the profits from this 1943 film directed by Frank Borzage went to the Canteens operated by the American Theater Wing across the country.
Customers who bought titles directed by Frank Borzage also bought titles by these directors:
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 DESIRE - Marlene Dietrich Gary Cooper Average Frank Borzage Comedy 1936 -
DESIRE - Marlene Dietrich Gary Cooper Average Frank Borzage Comedy 1936 -
Songs include "Awake in a Dream", sung by Marlene Dietrich
She must then become acquainted with and keep an eye on Bradley until she can retrieve the necklace.
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