Frank Borzage
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Frank Borzage: a selection DVD of the weekFrank Borzage: a selection, DVD of the week Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor star in Frank Borzage's overwhelmingly tender silent films. Rating: * * * * Romantic pairing: Farrell and Gaynor in 'Street Angel' Frank Borzage: Vol 1: 7th... In this article: Frank Borzage, DVD, Charles Farrell, Liliom, Lucky Star, Street Angel, Janet Gaynor, Fritz Lang, George W Bush, and Carousel |
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Wikipedia | October 14, 2009
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...
In this article: Academy Award, Cancer, Mary Pickford, and Hazleton, Pennsylvania
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Wikipedia | September 30, 2009
Strange Cargo (1940 film)
...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...
In this article: Joan Crawford, Strange Cargo, Clark Gable, Albert Dekker, Bernard Nedell, Peter Lorre, and Eduardo Ciannelli
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The Seattle Times | September 10, 2009
1959: The best movie year ever?
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...
In this article: Academy Awards, Some Like It Hot, Ben-Hur, The 400 Blows, Room at the Top, North by Northwest, Francois Truffaut, Gregory Peck, Otto Preminger, and Marilyn Monroe
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Wikipedia | May 22, 2009
Desire (1936 film)
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...
In this article: Desire, Ernst Lubitsch, John Gilbert, John Halliday, Marlene Dietrich, and Gary Cooper
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San Francisco Chronicle | February 13, 2009
DVD: Murnau, Borzage and Fox
...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...
In this article: F.W. Murnau, DVD, 20th Century Fox, Young America, Bad Girl, City Girl, and San Francisco Chronicle
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Slant Magazine | January 16, 2009
Murnau, Borzage and Fox: DVD Review
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...
In this article: F.W. Murnau, William Fox, Charles Farrell, John Ford, Sunrise, DVD, Will Rogers, and Liliom
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Deseret News | December 11, 2008
Kudos to Fox for Murnau, Borzage set
...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...
In this article: F.W. Murnau, William Fox, Sunrise, Oscar, DVD, Seventh Heaven, Nosferatu, and Fox Home Entertainment
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | December 09, 2008
DVD review: Murnau, Borzage And Fox
...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...
In this article: F.W. Murnau, William Fox, Sunrise, Street Angel, Academy Awards, John Ford, DVD, Liliom, and Young America
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New York Post: Entertainment | December 08, 2008
SALUTE TO STUDIO'S PIONEERS
...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...
In this article: William Fox, F.W. Murnau, Oscar, Sunrise, MGM, Stock market crash, Bankruptcy, and DVD
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The Hollywood Reporter | September 10, 2008
Fox preps Murnau, Borzage set
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...
In this article: DVD, Oscar, 4 Devils, and F.W. Murnau
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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 sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg (1860, Ricken - 1947), in Zürich, where she worked in a silk factory. Luigi Borzaga immigrated to Hazleton, Pennsylvania in the early 1880s; he worked as a coal miner there and soon brought his Swiss fiancée with him.
The couple married in Hazleton in 1883, and had their first child, Henry, in Wyoming in 1885. They settled in the Mormon stronghold of Salt Lake City, Utah, where they gave birth to Frank, and remained until 1919. Altogether, the couple had fourteen children, eight of whom survived childhood: Henry (1885-1971), Mary, Bill (1892-1973), Frank, Daniel (1896-1975, a performer and member of the John Ford Stock Company), Lew (1898-1974), Dolly (1901) and Susan (1905). Luigi Borzaga died in Los Angeles in a car accident in 1934; his wife died of cancer in 1947.
Borzage started working in Hollywood in 1912 as an actor, and continued until 1917. His directorial debut came in 1915 with his film The Pitch o' Chance.
Borzage died of cancer in 1962 at the age of 68, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. For his contributions to film, Borzage was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Birth Date:
- April 23, 1894
- Birthplace:
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Death Date:
- June 19, 1962
- Place of Death:
- Hollywood, California
- Spouse:
- Rena Rogers (div.1941)
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