Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 - June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism. Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859. As a stone mason, he...

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...by Lawrence Hazard was based upon the 1936 novel Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep by Richard Sale . The film was directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film is the eighth and last cinematic collaboration between...

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Frank Capra's "A Hole in the Head" is remembered only for its Oscar-winning song, "High Hopes." If you sat through all three hours of Frank Borzage's final film, "The Big Fisherman," you know the meaning of unwatchable. Equally hard to...

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Desire is an American romantic drama film released in 1936 and directed by Frank Borzage. It was produced by Borzage and Ernst Lubitsch. The picture is a remake of the 1933 German film Die Schonen Tage von Aranjuez. The screenplay was...

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...history of the form. The 12-disc set documents the great work done at Fox studios by its top two directors: F.W. Murnau (1888-1931) and Frank Borzage (1894-1962). The two are not the most natural pairing. Though both were capable of inciting...

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Director(s): F.W. Murnau and Frank Borzage. Screenplay: Frances Marion, Benjamin Glazer, H.H. Caldwell, Sonya Levien, Dwight Cummins, S.N. Behrman, Edwin J. Burke and William Conselman. Cast: Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, Margaret...

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...as John Ford, are nonetheless important for their groundbreaking work the German artist F.W. Murnau and Salt Lake City native Frank Borzage. (Who was a Catholic, just in case you're wondering.) Story continues below Murnau is best known...

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...Wellman, and John Ford all learned from Murnau, but the Fox director arguably most affected by Murnau's presence on the lot was Frank Borzage, an already-excellent storyteller fascinated by human faces and transformative romance. Because...

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...but also to teach Fox's own directors, an already distinguished group that included John Ford, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks and Frank Borzage. In the first year of the Oscars, Murnau won the first and only Oscar ever awarded for "artistic...

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Fox is preparing its second ultra-collector's edition set, a 12-film DVD library honoring the careers of directors F.W. Murnau and Frank Borzage at Fox Studios. The collection, coming Dec. 9, features fully restored and remastered versions...

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