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3242:. He was overruled by Dino de Laurentis, who insisted that the central figure in the epic appear as a conventional romantic leading man, rather than as the novel's "overweight, bespectacled" protagonist. Vidor sought to endow Pierre's character so as to reflect the central theme of Tolstoy's novel: an individual's troubled striving to rediscover essential moral truths. The superficiality of the script and Fonda's inability to convey the subtleties of Pierre's spiritual journey thwarted Vidor's efforts to actualize the film's theme. Recalling these interpretive disputes, Vidor remarked that "though a damn good actor... just did not understand what I was trying to say."
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ambitious German immigrant, Marvin Myles (Hedy Lamarr) at a New York advertising agency. They prove incompatible, largely due to different class orientation and expectations: Marvin pursues her dynamic career in New York and Harry returns to the security of his
Bostonian social establishment. In an act of desperate nostalgia, Pulham attempts to rekindle the relationship 20 years later, to no avail. His attempt at rebellion failed, Harry Pulham consciously submits to a life of conformity that falls short of freedom but offers self-respect and a modest contentment.
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2424:: Rather than demonstrate his patriotism by joining a military film unit Vidor attempted to create a paean to American democracy. His 1944 An American Romance represents the "steel" installment of Vidor's "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy and serves as his "industrial epic".and emerged from an extremely convoluted screenwriting evolution. Vidor personifies the relationship between man and the natural resources on which struggles to impose his purpose on nature.
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2277:. Major Robert Rogers (Spencer Tracy) leads his green-clad "Roberts Rangers" on a grueling trek through 200 miles of wilderness. The Rangers fall upon the village and brutally exterminate the inhabitants who are suspected of assaulting white settlements. A demoralized retreat ensues led by Rogers. Under retaliatory attack by Indians and a savage landscape the Rangers are pushed to the limits of their endurance, some reduced to cannibalism and madness.
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3000:(1946), in which an impoverished young woman, Jennifer Jones (Ruby née Corey, later Gentry), is taken in by a well-to-do couple. When the foster mother dies (Josephine Hutchinson) Ruby marries the widower (Karl Malden) for security, but he too dies under circumstances that cast suspicions on Ruby. She is harried by her evangelical preacher-sibling (James Anderson) and her love affair with the son of a local land-owing scion (
2365:, a cynical American journalist who exposes Stalin-era cultural falsifications in his dispatches to his newspaper in the United States. Lamarr plays a Moscow tram conductor. Her coldly logical persona ultimately proves susceptible to Gable's America-inspired enthusiasms. Released in December 1940, the scurrilous tone of the dialogue toward the USSR officials was consistent with US government posture in the aftermath of the
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1884:) scorns his pacifism and singlehandedly diverts her slaves from rebellion. The white masters of the "Portobello" plantation in Mississippi emerge from the conflict content that North and South made equal sacrifices, and that a "New South" has emerged that is better off without its white aristocracy and slavery. With Portobello in ruins, Valette and Duncan submit to the virtues of hard work in a pastoral existence.
1305:. Vidor was shaken by news that US film studios and theaters were converting to sound technology and he returned quickly to Hollywood, concerned about the impact on silent cinema. Adjusting to the advent of sound, Vidor enthusiastically embarked upon his long-desired project of making a picture about rural black American life incorporating a musical soundtrack. He quickly completed writing the scenario for
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novel, The
Fountainhead, which espoused her philosophy of Objectivism, a belief in the integrity of the individual and a general contempt for the mediocre standards accepted by the masses. And "The film version, based on Ayn Rand's screenplay of her novel, preserves her didactic dialogue while placing the main characters, essentially symbolic stand-ins for opposing ideologies."
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679:. The recluse achieves financial success and is ultimately rewarded with the affection of a gentlewoman, played by Florence Vidor. Redolent with the precepts of the "Creed and Pledge", the film's "relentless realism" did not please the executives at First National. They demanded entertainment that would garner a mass share of box-office receipts so as to fill their theaters.
1375:. As an adult, he was not immune to the racial prejudices common among whites in the South of the 1920s. His paternalistic claim to know the character of the "real negro" is reflected in his portrayal of some rural black characters as "childishly simple, lecherously promiscuous, fanatically superstitious, and shiftless". Vidor, nonetheless, avoids reducing his characters to
2914:, a cast that did not suit Vidor. A standard Warner's melodrama, Vidor declared that the picture "turned out terribly" and is largely unrepresentative of his work except in its western setting and its examination of sexual strife, the theme of the film. Vidor's next project was proposed by producer Joseph Bernhard after pre-production and casting were nearly complete:
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show some constructive resolution... despite some extremely violent sequences maintained his lifelong sympathy for
Christian Science." And: "In general, Vidor's films are less concerned with right and wrong than with the harmony of soul and action...resilience is a better protection than strict justice, whose meticulous observance would destroy energy in everybody."
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3257:"Natasha permeated entire structure as the archetype of womankind which she so thoroughly represents. If I were forced to reduce the whole story of War and Peace to some basically simple statement, I would say that it is a story of the maturing of Natasha. She represents, to me, the anima of the story and she hovers over it all like immortality itself."
2603:"hen Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) rides out to kill Lewt (Gregory Peck), she is uncannily transformed into a phantasm of a young resolute Mrs. McCanles (Lillian Gish), thus killing the son she despises via the daughter she never had. This is perhaps the most outrageous conceit of an entirely outrageous movie, and it is brilliant. As
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the city inherit a derelict farm, and in an effort to make it a productive enterprise, they establish a cooperative in alliance with unemployed locals who possess various talents and commitments. The film raises questions as to the legitimacy of the
American system of democracy and to government imposed social programs.
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Simmons, 1988: p. 255-256: Vidor wished to reclaim the "lost faith" that "America (and Hollywood) in the transcendent energy that had brought his heroes moral success..."The Fountainhead, Beyond the Forest and...Lightning Strikes Twice can each be seen as responses to Duel in the Sun...to
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Baxter, 1976 p. 68: "The hand of
Selznick lies heavily but not without a sureness of touch" on the film. And p. 69: ""Selznick ... tried to recapture the scope and vivacity of Gone with the Wind. And: "The interference of which Vidor complained added significantly to the film's success ...
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Simmons, 1988: p. 206: A film "highly regarded in its day...with Vidor receiving his best reviews since his MGM silents." And "Vidor's chastened, subdued affirmations that….what an individual might accomplish is a sober rather than a heroic one." And p. 219: "It is tempting to suggest H.M
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Simmons, 1988: p. 207: Vidor "keep faith with Cronin's attack on the mercenary spirit of the medical profession…" And: Hollywood would have rejected "an equally incisive attack on the American medicine…" And p. 209: "the cooperative ideal in the middle way between the dangers of socialism
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overtones, for Vidor celebrates the same life in the enterprising white community of Our Daily Bread." And p. 98-99: The film "unleashes forces... a moral polarity between family affection versus apparently passionate sexuality..." And p. "...the film affirms the value...of diligence, frugality, hard
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Phillips, 2009: "The 141-minute feature was the first silent
American movie to deal realistically with the horrors of war and to do it from the standpoint of ordinary soldiers. It was also the most profitable silent-era feature and remained MGM's most successful film until Gone with the Wind in 1939.
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emulates his domineering cattle baron father. The adoption of the young orphan girl Pearl Chavez, the "half-breed" offspring of a
European gentleman and a native-American mother, whom Pearl's father has murdered and been executed for his crime, introduces a fatal element into the McCanles family. The
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was completed by Vidor after years of manufacturing "conventional successes" for M-G-M. The calm certitude of Harry Pulham in the face of enforced conformity may reflect Vidor's determination to artistically address larger issues in contemporary American society. His next, and final movie for M-G-M,
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is a cautionary tale concerning upper- and lower-class sexual infidelities set in England. Framed, as in the play and novel, in a series of flashbacks told by the married barrister Warlock (Colman), the story ends in honorable redemption for the barrister and death for his mistress. Vidor was able to
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Employing relatively unknown actors, the film had modest box office success, but was widely praised by critics. In 1928, Vidor received an Oscar nomination, and his first for Best Director. M-G-M executives, who had been content to allow Vidor an "experimental" film found that bleak social outlook of
267:; February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose 67-year film-making career successfully spanned the silent and sound eras. His works are distinguished by a vivid, humane, and sympathetic depiction of contemporary social issues. Considered an
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Steinberg, TMC: "The project's salvaging was not remembered fondly by either the director or his substitute lead. Vidor felt that Brynner's reading lacked the threads of self-doubt that Power brought to the role. "Tyrone Power had understood the dualistic problem of the anguished king," the director
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Cady, TMC: "Critics praised the results but American audiences never warmed to it. Russian audiences, however, did and this version became a big hit in the Soviet Union, a great embarrassment to Soviet officials. This was at the height of the Cold War and surely the Americans could not be allowed to
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Gallagher, 2007: "It really founders on the crucial miscasting of the male leads, but Audrey Hepburn's perfect Natasha is diverting..."And Vidor quoted in full regarding Natasha. And: " is the locus of our empathy; through the star we experience the passions of life. We stare in wonder, at the world
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Callahan, 2007: "It's filmed like a silent movie, and as Rand's ludicrous dialogue keeps coming at you at an unmodulated volume, you start to wish that it was...the whole thing is a silly stacked deck filled with crude, vague ideas, and it cannot be said that Vidor entirely overcomes the problems of
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Thomson, 2007: "The film still has scenes – like the sado-masochistic conclusion where Jones and Gregory Peck kill each other in a harsh rocky landscape – that are a novel injection of disturbed psychology in the Western genre. It is the model of Hollywood going over the top – yet it would not be as
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: pp. 238–239: Selznick "planning a modest Western which expanded as he went along, until he proclaimed his ambition to ... 'top' Gone with the Wind." And Vidor considered Garrett's script "dull" and wished to limit the film to a "small" but "intense Western situation."
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 174: Vidor "preferring not to join a military film unit on a patriotic saga of industrial and immigrant success, 'an ideal of American democracy'... three years" of effort and multiple scripts to create An American Romance." And p. 221: The function of Vidor's film was
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Hodsdon, 2013: The Crowd was influenced by "an international wave of populist films in the '20s and '30s including the German populism" and "generally well-received critically and its reputation has continued to grow. The oft-repeated statement that it was a failure with the public seems inaccurate.
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was under consideration for adaption by several studios. Paramount Pictures and De Laurenti rushed the film into production before a proper script could be formulated from Tolstoy's complex and massive tale, requiring rewrites throughout the shooting. The final cut, at three hours, was necessarily a
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 315: "Solomon and Sheba has the reputation of being the disaster that killed Vidor's career." And "...at sixty-five he could hardly help having been wearied by the production chaos of his previous two epics...Vidor was intent on returning to projects closer to his own
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 8 And p. "One might surmise that Vidor's recent failures...to find producers for his more personal projects engendered a certain defeatism, rendering him not unopposed to costume epics..." And p. 260: Vidor: "War and Peace...came to me through an agent, and I did not set
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Stafford, TMC: "The Fountainhead, despite its shortcomings as a film adaptation of the book, remains a fascinating curiosity in the history of American film. Its righteous view of capitalism and morality place it firmly in the pantheon of right-wing conservative cinema And: "Ayn Rand's best-selling
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Miller, TMC: Selznick, "opening the film in hundreds of theaters around the country rather than starting slowly in a few first-run houses... proved a box-office bonanza as audiences, prodded by a $ 2 million publicity campaign, raced to see the film wherever it played. Despite pretty awful reviews,
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 212-213: The film examines the virtues of "abstention from revolt...It asserts a suburban routine and its sedate virtue, when deliberately chosen, as a form of freedom. whole structure is dedicated to this twist." (See Synopsis on same pages). And p. 214: In New York,
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Durgham and Simmons, 1988 p. 174: "...Vidor and Elizabeth Hill shared script credit." And p. 205: "But as so often with Vidor in the thirties, marriage itself gets a rough going over. He fought for a stark view of the institution in... H. M. Pulham, Esq...a feature he considered most personal" and
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Nixon, TMC: "Racial hatred pervades the film, erupting in the action sequences or even among the Rangers in casual scenes where they jokingly banter with each other. However, audiences at the time of the picture's release were willing to overlook that and accept the script's 'justification' for the
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 200–201: The changes Vidor make to Henry King's version "owe something to the remake being a star vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck" And "Vidor identically, cut, shot and staged" some of the material from the 1925 version. And Vidor "a master... of wringing audience tears."
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Baxter, 1972 p, 152–153: "...the integration of character...into an alien landscape...as bare and stark as the moon." And: "...in Billy the Kid, struck a balance between the commercial necessities of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his own vision of life." And p. 153: "...Billy the Kid as a fit companion
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Berlinale Retrospective 2020: "...he was actively involved in making movies for 67 years." And "allowed the material to define the style." And on "auteur": "Vidor's status as an auteur is definitely underscored by his independence and by the passion he brought to films. ...Vidor was indeed at times
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in frowzy wig and dead white makeup, the famous star looked closer to forty than eighteen. At the first sight of Laurette experienced acute relief. She came toward him smiling, and his camera-minded eye saw at once a face all round and animated, essentially youthful. Pumping her hand he burst out
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Greven, 2011: "King Vidor's 1949 film Beyond the Forest is, for many, a film chiefly notable for having provided the inspiration for a famous moment in Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. " And "...the film's aesthetic, feminist, and queer worth conventional dismissals of it,
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 6 And p. 232: On "spirit" And p. 232: "in some real way, the experience altered Vidor's spirit. His post-war films are turbulent, almost spiritually desperate." And p. 235: "severing the bond with MGM was just the needed jolt" Vidor required to inspire him to continue
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 186: Vidor and Hill's script "comes across as entirely too quirky" to be an adaptation of Webb's historical account of the Texas Rangers. And p. 185: Vidor's movie "contains what amounts to two B Westerns: "The Texas Rangers wipe out the Injuns" and "The Texas Rangers
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Senses of Cinema 2007: In his later films "Vidor's men became more unlikable and scarier as his country itself veered away from the proletarian dreams of the 1930s and into the consumer culture of the '50s and beyond. All his men work against things: war, consuming lust, the land, the illnesses of
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among his most artistically gratifying works: "I had complete freedom in shooting it, and Selznick, who could have had an influence on Jennifer Jones, didn't intervene. I think I succeeded in getting something out of Jennifer, something quite profound and subtle." The swamp sequence where Ruby and
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led to conflicts with Vidor over development of the themes which emphasized "sex, violence and spectacle". Vidor walked off the set just before primary filming was completed, unhappy with Selznick's intrusive management. The producer would enlist eight additional directors to complete the picture.
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is a deeply personal and politically controversial work that Vidor financed himself when M-G-M executives declined to back the production. M-G-M was uncomfortable with its characterization of big business, and particularity banking institutions, as corrupt. A struggling Depression-era couple from
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 299: "The film indicates, without exploring, a transition between Vidor's critical of contemporary America and his more affirmative pair of costume epics...Vidor's interests seemed to have moved on from America...American had become as constricted as the Old World had
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Levy 2005: "Beyond the Forest contrasts Loyalton with Chicago. Whenever Rosa goes to–or thinks of–Chicago, the soundtrack plays a nightmarish version of "Chicago, Chicago" (which Judy Garland made popular). ...Max Steiner's melodramatic score was nominated for an Oscar". And "...Rosa is obsessive
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Melville, 2013: "Given the tensions between the star and her role, it makes sense that Vidor should focus the film on Rosa's own problematic self-image. Throughout his career, Vidor showed a fondness for "wild" women, who might give themselves sexually or emotionally – but would never submit to a
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 176-177: Vidor's interpretation of the Civil War South is that of "an unrepentant – unreconstructed Southerner..." And "Vidor presents "two distinct southern regional responses" to the Civil War. And p. 199: The film describes "a split between Texans and Southerners
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ended Vidor's career, he continued to receive offers to film major productions after its completion. The reasons for the director's disengagement from commercial film-making are related to his age (65) and to his desire to pursue smaller and more personal movie projects. Reflecting on independent
2454:, after an artistic investment of three years, staggered Vidor and left him deeply demoralized. The break with M-G-M presented an opportunity to establish a more satisfying relationship with other studio producers. Emerging from this "spiritual" nadir he would create a Western of great intensity:
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Harry Pulham (Robert Young), a member of the New England's conservative upper-middle class, is stultified by the respectable routines of life and a proper marriage to his wife Kay (Ruth Hussey). Vidor examines Pulham's past in a series of flashbacks that reveal a youthful affair Harry had with an
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something of an auteur filmmaker..." And on "humane": "There is also a whole series of motifs that repeatedly turn up in his films, and which reflect the things he cared about – issues of class, as well as the issue of race in the US, which he incorporated into his films with a humanist bent..."
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Kirk Douglas acted as both the star and uncredited producer in a collaborative effort with director Vidor. Neither was entirely satisfied with the result. Vidor failed to fully develop his thematic conception, the ideal of balancing personal freedoms with conservation of the land as a heritage.
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depicts a microcosm in a major American metropolis and its social and economic inequalities. The cinematic limitations imposed by a single set restricted to a New York City block of tenements building and its ethnically diverse inhabitants presented Vidor with unique technical challenges. He and
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in 1923, a holding soon to be amalgamated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Samuel Goldwyn and other film producers of the early 1920s favored "literary" texts as the basis for movie screenplays. Parvenu-rich movie executives wished to provide a patina of class or "tone" to an industry often regarded as
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includes some impressive action sequences, including a widely cited battle finale in which Solomon's tiny army faces an approaching onslaught of mounted warriors. His troops turn their burnished shields to the sun, the reflected light blinding the enemy hordes and sending them careening into an
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Despite producer Louis B. Mayer's personal enthusiasm for the picture, his studio deleted 30 minutes from the movie, mostly essential human interest sequences and only preserving the abundant documentary scenes. Disgusted by M-G-M's mutilations, Vidor terminated his 20-year association with the
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to form a union, leading to the incorporation of the SDG in January 1936. By 1938, the collective bargaining unit had grown from a founding membership of 29 to an inclusive union of 600, representing Hollywood directors and assistant directors. The demands under Vidor's tenure at SDG were mild,
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 175: "MGM cut 30 minutes after its release" and Vidor quit MGM "deeply discouraged."And p. 6: A "permanent rupture" with MGM. See p. 6 and p. 221 for Louis B. Mayer's "gushing" remark to Vidor that it was "the greatest picture our company ever made" And p. 232: On
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is an iconographic Western tale of remorseless struggle between a wealthy rancher Reed Bowman (Jeanne Crain) and small homesteaders. Saddle-tramp and gunman Dempsey Rae (Kirk Douglas) is drawn into the vortex of violence, that Vidor symbolizes with ubiquitous barbed-wire. The cowboy ultimately
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Vidor was nominated five times by the Academy Awards for Best Director. In 1979, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator." Additionally, he won eight national and international film awards during his career, including the
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Miller, TMC: "...Vidor realized that the play's single setting outside the apartment building was one of its greatest strengths. ...to keep the film from being static, he worked with cameraman George Barnes to find innovative ways to move and place the camera...Vidor had been one of the first
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forthright defense for his act of sabotage and is exonerated by the jury. Though Vidor was committed to developing his own populist notion of American individualism, Rand's didactic Objectivist scenario and script informs much of the film. The Roark character is loosely based on the architect
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resonates with these populist films, a "pitiless study" of a young working man's descent into isolation and loss of morale who is ultimately crushed by the urban "assembly line", while his wife struggles to maintain some order in their relationship. Though the most uncharacteristic of Vidor's
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Baxter, 1976 p. 72: "In The Fountainhead...New York Skyscrapers are the real focus, rather than the character of Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), the uncompromising architect who destroys his work rather see its purity impaired." And p. 71: "...the central impression of The Fountainhead is one of
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Pulham, Esq is attempt by Vidor to vindicate an aspect of his own career – the turn it had been taking at M-G-M. It's a vindication impersonality."And p. 221: In the 1940s under the "tightly knit" production of Louis B. Mayer "Vidor found himself going to work in the morning like H.M.Pulham."
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Nixon, TMC: "Vidor had significant challenges making the movie in color. For one thing, the tough location shoot required that the bulky equipment needed to shoot in Technicolor had to be transported in two trains to the remote Idaho setting in McCall and the Payette Lake region ... The most
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Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 136-137: "...nothing prepares us for Selznick's volcano sacrifice." And "...Old World cultures are there for Americans and their lovers to transcend...If the film renounces miscegenation, that's not Vidor's fault... yearns the other way. But the strictures against
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 149: "...directly political" implications. And "...a politically charged subject" on the question of labor and land ownership. And p. 151; The studio viewed the film as "an attack on big business" and refused to finance it. And see p. 151 for Vidor's financing of
737:") as the girl he loved and rescued from a deadly cattle stampede. The natural landscapes serve as an essential dramatic component in the film, as they would in subsequent Vidor movies. The cost overruns cut into First National profits, and they declined to fund any further Vidor projects.
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Koszarski, "...later films Northwest Passage, An American Romance, and The Fountainhead demonstrate that Vidor was able to create films of personal expressiveness...it could be easily argued that only in the 40s and 50s do his heroes and heroines develop the richness of personality that
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 295: "...Vidor has called Ruby Gentry one of his favorite works…" And: "In its anguished lyricism, Ruby Gentry marks the end of the line for the phase that began back in Duel in the Sun. The reasons for this sudden finale...are no doubt a mix of personal and
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Reinhardt, 2020: "But the limitations and prejudices are largely class and social ones, not racial. Vidor was all over the place ideologically and politically, notwithstanding his undoubted general sympathy for the poor and marginalized" and "the film's universal message."(emphasis in
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to observe "Vidor was a director for anthologies created more great moments and fewer great films than any director of his rank." Despite the setbacks that plagued the production and the ballooning costs associated with the reshoot, Solomon and Sheba "more than earned back its costs."
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Higham, 1972: "They fell in love, and their affair continued until 1924. They met again exactly 40 years later ... They resumed their romance with much of its original intensity". And: In 1972 the couple lived "some 15 minutes drive in the Paso Robles hills, in her own splendid
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Senses of Cinema, 2007: "King Vidor's romance with Colleen Moore (b. 1900) is already a Hollywood legend. They first met in 1921, when he was married to his boyhood sweetheart, Florence Vidor: he directed Colleen in "The Sky Pilot." They fell in love, and their affair continued until
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in 1938. Filmed in England at a time the British government and trade unions had placed restrictions designed to extract a portion of the highly lucrative American movie exports to the British Isles. M-G-M, as a tactical olive branch, agreed to hire British actors as cast members for
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 281: The film "hides any depth of commitment behind...B film setups…" And p. 284: "The visual style argues that Japanese War Bride remained an impersonal production for Vidor." And: "he establishes the documentary community...lettuce field-hands...packing
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demanding scene for the actors involved the filming of the "human chain" employed by the Rangers to cross a treacherous body of water." And "viewers flocked to see the epic. Unfortunately, costs had run to well over $ 2 million ... so even with packed houses failed to turn a profit.
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Gallagher, 2007: See Gallaghar for a presentation of these themes. "...his hero is only apparently heroic...Heroic pretensions are chimeras, born in alienation, desperation and sexual will-to-power: only by realizing our common lot within society and family can our lives hold any
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and drove millions into low wage seasonal agricultural labor. The picture is a paean to family "blood" ties and rural generational continuity, manifested in the granddaughter's commitment (though raised in New York City) to inherit the family farm and honor its agrarian heritage.
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s sanguinary adventurer to contemporary Americans confronted with a looming world war is never made explicit but raises moral questions on "military virtue" and how a modern war might be conducted. Though Vidor was "anti-fascist" his political predilections are left unstated in
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in 1929, Vidor was internationally celebrated, even in America, as a titanic film artist who was both socially committed and commercial. Had a poll been taken, Vidor might well have been voted the greatest filmmaker in history, the one who had finally realized cinema's poetic
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ticket taker and projectionist. As an 18-year-old amateur newsreel cameraman Vidor began to acquire skills as a film documentarian. His first movie was based on footage taken of a local hurricane (not to be confused with the 1900 Galveston hurricane). He sold footage from a
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Thomson, 2007: "Vidor stopped directing commercial pictures after Solomon and Sheba. He had other projects – a film about Cervantes and a version of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun – but he admitted he wasn't cut out to be an independent producer. 'I'm glad I got out of it,' he
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Shaw, 2013. "ost mainstream Hollywood films that deal with politics have delivered a populist message. Not so with the film version of Ayn Rand's hit novel The Fountainhead, which is a paean to radical individualism. Few films have ever so explicitly expressed a political
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 66: Tolstoy's Pierre in War and Peace, to whom Vidor made central to his film." And p. 302-303: See detailed discussion on themes, and Fonda's performance. And p.306: "Vidor's conflicts with Fonda…" And p. 301 for quoted comment by Vidor on
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 185: "the A Western, as predicted, was moribund between 1931 and 1939–or it was perhaps held siege by the nearly one thousand B Westerns of those years." And p. 190 on Ford and DeMille. And "a resurgence of A Westerns generally" in the late
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devised one of the film's most visually striking sequences, the sunrise duel between Pierre (Henry Fonda) and Kuragin (Tullio Carminati), shot entirely on a sound-stage. Vidor performed second-production duties to oversee the spectacular battle reenactments and director
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Baxter, 1976. P. 7: Vidor, while a young cameraman in Texas, had provided Griffith with a letter of introduction to a cousin in California, who had in turn gotten Griffith a job as an extra at Vitagraph. In 1915, Griffith returned the favor to the struggling Vidor and
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observed: "his experience had a fundamental effect on Vidor's attitude toward film-making." Under pressure "as the studio system began to harden into place", the 26-year-old Vidor began to craft his films to conform to prevailing standards of the period. His 1920 film
752:(1921) is a "rural love story" with a spectacular disaster scene depicting a locomotive and box cars derailing and plunging into a river below. The dramatic presentation of rivers served as a standard motif in Vidor films. Impressed with this Vidor sequence, producer
3238:): "The strange thing about it is the character of Pierre is the same character I had been trying to put on the screen in many of my own films." Vidor was unsatisfied with the choice of Henry Fonda for the role of Pierre, and argued in favor of British actor
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Baxter 1976 p. 61: The film style Vidor applied in H.M Pulham, Esq "a style..he had decided to forget" And: "Between 1939 and 1959 preoccupation was to increasingly be with nature, industry and vast forces, the stuff on which his best work has always been
2118:(1946), the later in which Vidor presided over a failed attempt to produce a population of juvenile deer who would be age-appropriate throughout the production (female deer refused to reproduce out of season). Both films would be completed by the director
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The picture garnered a mixed response among social and film critics, some regarding it as a socialistic condemnation of capitalism and others as tending towards fascism – a measure of Vidor's own ambivalence in organizing his social outlook artistically.
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Higham, 1972: "Vidor's earlier movies had tended to emphasize the virtues of the common man. But gradually he came to believe that the individualist was the most important of beings, that a man must ignore received opinion and hold ruthlessly to what he
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 314: "In the climax, Solomon's small force dooms the larger army by burnishing their shields until the sun's dazzle lures the charging cavalry into a canyon . The genre's de rigueur miracle comes down to human ingenuity and
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Higham 1972: "Vidor's earlier movies had tended to emphasize the virtues of the common man. But gradually he came to believe that the individualist was the most important of beings, that a man must ignore received opinion and hold ruthlessly to what he
841:. Despite viewing screen tests supplied by director D. W. Griffth, Vidor was anxious that the aging Taylor (born 1884) would not be convincing as her 18-year-old stage character on screen. Biographer Marguerite Courtney describes their first encounter:
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Thomson, 2007: "The producer, the late Dino de Laurentis, wanted Henry Fonda for box-office reasons; Vidor, on the other hand, wanted Peter Ustinov – overweight, anti-heroic, and very European. 'I think he would have given the film more stature,' said
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in hundreds of theaters, backed by a multiple-million dollar promotional campaign. Despite the film's poor critical reception (termed "Lust in the Dust" by its detractors) the picture's box office returns rivaled the highest-grossing film of the year,
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recounted in Raymond Durgnat and Scott Simmon's King Vidor, American. Brynner, he continued, 'fought the idea of a troubled monarch and wanted to dominate each situation without conflict. It was an attitude that affected...the integrity of the film.'"
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All the wooden structures of the town were flattened ... he streets were piled high with dead people, and I took the first tugboat out. On the boat I went up into the bow and saw that the bay was filled with dead bodies, horses, animals, people,
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 298: "...Vidor strove to establish a wider theme of land as a heritage deserving conservation…" And p. 299: "...it anticipates the conservationist concerns of the next generation." And "...a reverent sense of property and
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 301: "...ultimate nightmare…" And Vidor's "fondness" for the Powers film footage and Vidor's "rare public dislike for Brynner." And "Vidor's complaints about Brynner's refusal to display vulnerability are borne out on
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 294: "Disliked by most 'serious' critics in the United States, Ruby Gentry won some respect from English critics" And "Hollywoodwise was something of an anomaly, with major stars in such a low-budget, violently personal
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and feuding with director Vidor over her character's portrayal, Davis delivers a startling performance and one of the best of her mid-career. The role of Rosa Molina would be her last film with Warner Brothers after seventeen years with the studio.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p, 87: "...dramatic challenges tended to highlight her limitations... Vidor converted her....into a touchingly resilient screwball comedienne."And p. 90: On Davis' impersonations. And p. 92: "drive you to distraction
1610:) in Iowa, the aging patriarch of a working farm. Her arrival upsets the schemes of parasitic relatives to seize the property in anticipation of Grandpa Storr's passing. The scenario presents the farm as "bountiful", even in the midst of the
3192:, followed the director's realization that his self-conceived film proposals would not be welcomed by commercial movie enterprises. This pair of historical costume dramas were created outside Hollywood, both filmed and financed in Europe.
3342:, suffered a heart attack during a climactic sword fight scene. He died within the hour. Considered the "ultimate nightmare" for any major movie production, the entire film had to be re-shot, with the lead role of Solomon now recast with
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Baxter, 1976 p. 61: Vidor on actor Robert Young: "...a superb actor without a single problem…" And "In a series of flashbacks recalling an uneventful life of rectitude and quiet achievement, the film developed a character of dignity and
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Melville, 2013: "hailed by Bad Movie Aficionados as "arguably the definitive high camp" picture. And: "...mimicked to death by three generations of drag queens – has reduced a complex and fascinating film to the status of a camp joke."
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enjoyed an overwhelmingly positive response in the United States and internationally, praising Vidor's stature as a film artist and as a humane social commentator. Vidor was nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards of 1929.
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 96, p. 124: The film is a "clear model" of Chaplin's The Kid. And p. 126: "inter-ethnic" kid movies for Brown. And: a "conventional" film for the studio to balance his experimental efforts e.g. Street
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enjoyed profitable box-office returns but a poor critical reception. Satisfied with his experience at Warner's, Vidor signed a two-film contract with the studio. In his second picture he would direct Warner's most prestigious star
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policies were widely debated. The film influenced tropes that appeared in subsequent war films, depicting small military units operating behind enemy lines and relying on harsh tactics to destroy enemy combatants. The relevance of
1812:'s handling of his silent production and incorporated or modified some of its filmic structure and staging. Stanwyck's performance, reportedly without undue oversight by Vidor, is outstanding, benefited by her selective vetting of
1244:(1928) was inspired by the glamorous Gloria Swanson, who began her film career in slapstick. Davis' character Peggy Pepper, a mere comic, is elevated to the high-style star Patricia Pepoire. Vidor spoofs his own recently completed
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Simmons, 2004: "...the film's delirious pitch is recognizably in Vidor's best postwar mode. In an attempt to quell the censorship furor, Duel was cut by nine minutes before wide release." And "Lust in the Dust" quote, "...a lurid
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Shaw, 2013: "Rand ensured that this one would do so by negotiating an unprecedented clause in her screenplay contract that mirrored the demands of her protagonist, Howard Roark: she was guaranteed it would be filmed as she wrote
798:(both 1922) and each depicting a female struggling successfully to assert herself in a male dominated world. As such, these may be considered as early examples of feminist-oriented cinema, but with entirely conventional endings.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 140: M-G-M studio and Vidor "hedge" his depiction of agriculture..." And: the farm "remains safely bountiful..." And: The Storr enterprise with its "expensive threshers" is not a "collective" but a
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Hampton, 2013: "She never gave a shriller, more unmodulated performance, though maybe that's the wrong word: hating the role with every fiber of her being, her performance feels more like an act of resistance than a piece of
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Callahan, 2007: "American Romance is one of those broken films that gropes compellingly for ultimate answers. It remains Vidor's most concentrated attempt at dramatizing the galvanizing power that leads a man to work and get
6807:...were the first and second parts of a trilogy Vidor thought of as "War, Wheat and Steel." It was not until 1944...that Vidor got the chance to make the "Steel" portion..."An American Romance." And "conventional successes"
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Baxter 1976: "...the sense of the American landscape...distinguishes his best films. What sets Vidor apart from his contemporaries is...a dark, almost demonic view of the land." And p. 9: "...Vidor's disquiet about natural
2966:-owned farm. The picture locates acts of racism towards non-whites as personal neurosis rather than socially constructed prejudice. Vidor's artistic commitments to the film were minimal in a production that was funded as a
1398:, emphasizing the class, rather than race, of his subjects. The film emerges as a human tragedy in which elemental forces of sexual desire and revenge contrast with family affection and community solidarity and redemption.
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By the early 1920s, Florence Vidor had emerged as a major film star in her own right and wished to pursue her career independent of her spouse. The couple divorced in 1926, and shortly thereafter Florence married violinist
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M-G-M's assembly line system caught up with even top directors like Vidor, who could be called on to pass judgment on a new property or even prepare a project, only to find themselves a few days later shifted to something
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Levy, 2005: "She is presented as an enigma, a mystery that needs to be resolved. Rosa not only acts callous, she also looks mean. Wearing a wig of long black hair, Bette Davis is heavily made up, looking like a grotesque
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Baxter, 1976 p. 66: "personifies the conflict between man and nature" And p. ? "dramatize with typical Vidor romanticism the possibilities in the battle with nature if only ... one will sacrifice all and not be
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The "unbridled sexuality" portrayed by Vidor between Pearl and Lewt created a furor that drew criticism from the US Congressmen and film censors, which led to the studio cutting several minutes before its final release.
7221:. For all The Fountainhead's thoroughly deranged sexual politics, it refreshingly avoids Hollywood timidity. It's an oddball movie, no doubt, but with the strength of its convictions: the triumph of "the supreme egoist."
2331:, injecting documentary realism into key sequences. Notable are those of the Rangers portaging boats through a rugged mountain pass, and the famous river "human chain" crossing. Despite its enormous box office earnings,
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 180: "...for twenty years thereafter, Westerns were fated to simple moral dichotomies between white Stetsons and black." And p. 11:"...Vidor's Billy the Kid another serial killer...without
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Baxter, 1976. p. 11: "In a community increasingly dominated by big combines, his films, though distinguished, were almost entirely the romances and comedies then in vogue ... the ideals of his 'Creed and Pledge'
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Vidor served as an 'extra" or made cameo appearances during his film career. An early film still exists from an unidentified Hotex Motion Picture Company silent short made in 1914, when he was 19 years old (he wears a
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Vidor disparaged the picture as "an insignificant light comedy" that afforded him "a change of pace." Vidor's next picture would be a cold-eyed examination of the institution of marriage and a much more personal work:
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Holliman, year: "The Crowd proved to be so uncompromising and unsentimental in its approach that MGM mogul Irving Thalberg held up its release for a year. Although it was eventually released to international critical
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 12: "...Vidor's most ferocious film Northwest Passage (1940) – which can be read as a call for World War II intervention by interventionists, and as a call to strenuous self-reliance by
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Baxter 1976 p. 30: "German filmmakers enjoyed an American vogue artistic success" And: "his most unusual and uncharacteristic film of the twenties. And p. 31: Wage earners are "reduced to numbers in a characterless
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grossed more than double its considerable production costs and returned a small profit to the studio. And "It now stands as one of the great silent films" and inspired Italian director Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 23: Vidor served "as prop boy, script clerk, bit actor..." And: Griffith a former "Texas flame" of Vidor. And p. 326: "pseudonym" derived from Vidor's christened name Charles King Wallis
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Cady, TMC: "For the overweight, bespectacled Pierre, the center of the novel, many names were thrown about including the most likely candidate Peter Ustinov, but after many compromises, Henry Fonda was cast in the
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Callahan, 2007: The Fountainhead's "enormous, arid set design, its obsession with an individual's rights and its erotic suggestiveness, The Fountainhead is a film that exemplifies Vidor's 'mind over matter'outlook
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Tolstoy's themes of individualism, the centrality of family and national allegiance and the virtues of agrarian egalitarianism were immensely appealing to Vidor. He commented on the pivotal character in the novel,
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Thomson, 2007: "his mother raised Vidor as a Christian Scientist. The philosophy of Mary Baker Eddy had a lifelong effect on his work – he took her few good ideas and extrapolated a metaphysical philosophy of his
1732:(1932), a romantic melodrama of a brief, yet tragic affair between a British barrister and a shopgirl, was Vidor's second sound collaboration with Goldwyn. Starring two of Hollywood's biggest stars of the period,
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Vidor was content to adapt these "prestigious properties" so securing his reputation as a reliable studio asset. His work during this period did not rise to the level of his later work, but a few films stand out.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 138: "...an escape to family-owned land away from modern economic and spiritual problems." And also quotes passage from FDR inaugural And p. 154: Vidor's "admiration for the New Deal
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Steinberg, TMC: "One of the many Hollywood biblical epics that enjoyed a vogue in the '50s, Solomon And Sheba (1959) is best remembered as the final project in the long and distinguished career of director King
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according to different senses of 'honor'..." And p. 176: The loss of Portobello "toughens" into survivors" who now work and live simply on the land. And for "pacifism" and "American" quotes, see p. 176, p. 179.
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philosophy) who serves as "the answer to everyone's problems" while pumping gas at the station. She disappears suddenly, leaving the director inspired, and he returns to Hollywood. Impressed by Italian director
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Vidor and Douglas succeeded in creating Douglas's splendid character, Dempsey Rae, who emerges as a vital force, especially in the saloon-banjo sequence that screenwriter Borden Chase termed "pure King Vidor".
2373:. Reflecting these developments, M-G-M executives, just six months after the film's release, inserted a disclaimer assuring audiences that the movie was only a farce, not a hostile critique of the USSR. Writer
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as Hot Shot developed a love-triangle that leads to a revenge murder. A quasi-musical, Vidor's innovative integration of sound into the scenes, including jazz and gospel adds immensely to the cinematic effect.
1148:, insisted that Vidor direct Marion Davies – Hearst's longtime mistress – in these Cosmopolitan-supervised films, to which Vidor acquiesced. Though not identified as a director of comedies, Vidor filmed three "
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into Metaphor. And "The fact that these inspirations came to Wyeth from the films of King Vidor hammered home this whole idea of what creativity is and what a limited definition we have of it in this country.
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Callahan, 2007: "Beyond the Forest (1949) is certainly the most unheralded of Vidor's major films, mainly because everyone involved with it, especially its vitriolic star, Bette Davis, kept badmouthing it for
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Callahan, 2007: "The book had been a best seller...MGM estimated that more than 5 million people had read it." And "Vidor used a failed love affair from his own life as an inspiration for the dynamics in this
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are endowed with sinister and homicidal potential, where a fugitive arrives to terrorize rural residents. As such, the film exhibits Vidor's trademark use of nature to symbolize aspects of the human conflict.
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The process of adapting the stage version to film was nevertheless fraught with difficulties, complicated by a romantic attachment between director and star. The final product proved cinematically "lifeless".
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 295-296: "Hollywood's collective iconography...and the barbed=wire theme…" And "barbed-wire was the symbolic center of freedom's restraints and the ruthless plundering of nature."
2759:, Vidor asked the author to write the script. Rand accepted but inserted a caveat into her contract requiring that she authorize any deviation from the book's story or dialogue. Vidor accepted the provision.
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Thomson, 2007: "Vidor and the actress did not get on well, but the lyrical melodrama and mix of ugliness and passion in Davis' character, a Midwest Emma Bovary, is more impressive than the film's reputation
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has said: 'In cinema, as in all art, only those who risk the ridiculous have a real shot at the sublime.' In Duel in the Sun, an older, less hopeful, but still enterprising King Vidor came damn close to the
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Considering the film only a work in progress at the time of his death, the documentary had its premiere at the American Film Institute in 1980. It was never given a general release and is rarely screened.
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Baxter, 1976 p. 80: Author Leo Tolstoy's epic "was boiled down into four hours" though often cut in distribution "to less than three, mutilating what was already a condensed and simplified version" of the
1720:, contributed to the critical success of the film, as did the huge publicity campaign engineered by Goldwyn. Street Scene's immense box-office profits belied the financial and economic crisis of the early
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Thomson, 2007: "He made films glorifying the effects of Western civilization and its contents, detailing how ordinary men are made extraordinary through their fight against the neutral destructiveness of
1816:'s famous portrayal. Vidor contributed to defining Stanwyck's role substantially in the final cut, providing a sharper focus on her character and delivering one of the great tear-jerkers in film history.
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Silver, 2010: "It is some measure of the ardor Vidor felt for Our Daily Bread that he managed to make it outside the studio system and in spite of American cinema's traditional aversion to controversial
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Smith, TMC: "The box office failure of Metro's widescreen Billy the Kid in the autumn of 1930 may have killed the A-list career of John Mack Brown but it in no way deterred subsequent recreations of the
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Tonguette, 2011: Relevant clips of The Big Parade and insert shots of particular Wyeth paintings cut to as they come up in the course of conversation. McGee worked extensively on integrating clips of
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So long as I direct pictures, I will make only those founded on the principles of right, and I will endeavor to draw upon the inexhaustible source of good for my stories, my guidance and my inspiration.
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inject some "pure cinema" into a picture that was otherwise a "dialogue-heavy" talkie: "Colman tears up a piece of paper and throws the pieces out a window, where they fly into the air. Vidor cuts to
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look trivial alongside contemporary photographs: the lice, the rats, and roaches, the urine and blood, the disease, fear, and horror of the true events are altogether lost in this version."—Biographer
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tropes, including Indian massacres of white settlers and a corrupt city official who receives small town justice at the hands of a jury composed of saloon denizens. The film presages, as does Vidor's
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Despite the success of the film it would be his last with Goldwyn, as Vidor had tired of the producer's outbursts on the set. Vidor emphatically declined to work with the "mercurial" producer again.
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I will not knowingly produce a picture that contains anything that I do not believe to be absolutely true to human nature, anything that could injure anyone or anything unclean in thought or action.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 317: "Vidor's research...led to the solution"...of the crime, as described in Kirkpatrick's novel. And "Vidor's research for script based on the 'silencing' of the 1922
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Harry Pulham is "stunned to find a woman driven by a zeal he's known, and then only infrequently, in men." And p. 216: Pulham, confronted with the advertising girl...withdraws" back to New England.
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Berlinale 2020: "...civilization and the savagery of nature collide, provide hints to the basic conflict Vidor would explore in later Westerns – and carry to a glorious extreme in Duel in the Sun."
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During the late 1930s M-G-M enlisted Vidor to assume artistic and technical responsibilities, some of which went uncredited. The most outstanding of these was his shooting of the black-and-white "
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Thomson, 2007: "The Guild was not overreaching in its claims. It sought more time in preproduction, a proper chance to examine a script before filming, and the right to make at least a first cut.
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Steinberg, TMC: "Although critics of the period were indifferent at best to Solomon and Sheba, the film's global grosses still ensured a multi-million dollar profit despite the on-set disaster."
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Also "...the final gut punch" ending. And p. 205: See footnote on Vidor's "final editing" And also Stanwyck's study of Bennett's performance. And Stella Dallas "lines up with the 'pure' weepies"
1991:. Vidor emphatically declined: "... "I've such a belly-full of Texas after the Rangers that I find myself not caring whether Sam Houston takes Texas from the Mexicans or lets them keep it."
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 235: On Selznick and Vidor And p. 239: Screen Guild arbitration. And p. 239-240: On the beneficial influence of "many hands" in a "concerto, not a solo" effort.
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set unannounced during filming. Abashed, Gish and co-star Barrymore became tongue-tied. Vidor was compelled to insist that Griffith withdraw, and the chastened Griffith complied graciously.
2320:. Vidor established an unusually close professional relationship with the film's star, Spencer Tracy, and the actor delivered what Vidor considered a performance of "tremendous conviction".
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7665:...is largely responsible of the film's most memorable scene, the duel in the snow between Pierre and Kuragin...more remarkable for the fact that the whole scene is shot on a soundstage..."
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Silver, 1982: "Duel in the Sun is 'the tale of a sun blistered romance involving a half-breed Indian girl and two dagger-eyed Texas brothers, one of them very good and the other very bad' (
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is one of a cycle of bible-based epics popular favored by Hollywood during the 1950s. The film is best remembered as the Vidor's last commercial production of his long career in Hollywood.
2493:'s screenplay and direct a miniature Western, "small" but "intense". Selznick's increasingly grandiose plans for the production involved his wish to promote the career of actress-mistress
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Whiteley, 2010: "an unsuccessful attempt in 1979 to raise finance for a film about James Murray, the star of 'The Crowd' and an alcoholic who had died an early death from drowning in 1936.
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Thomson, 2007: "...The Metaphor (1980), the latter with painter Andrew Wyeth. Ever since The Crowd, Vidor had been fascinated with the notion that movie action depended on inner metaphor."
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Baxter, 1976 p, 80: Vidor "had made few real epics but in the sixties he accepted two of the then fashionable spectacles, both credible exercises in the contrast between man and nature."
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Simmons, 1988: "Vidor pulled out all the stops for his stylized adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, the doggedly epic apotheosis of her theories of socially beneficial selfishness."
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Berlinale, 2020: "Just as Lubitsch's classic was a jab at the autocracy of the Soviet Union in the era of the Hitler-Stalin pact, Comrade X paid homage to the anti-authoritarian spirit of
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The lead role of immigrant Stefan Dubechek was offered to Spencer Tracy but the actor declined, an acute disappointment for the director who had greatly admired Tracy's performance in his
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Baxter, 1972 p. 158: "...one cannot accept Our Daily Bread as anything more than a well-mounted political tract from a theorist unwilling or unable see a situation with any real insight."
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Baxter 1976 p. 19-20 Gilbert's "soon to be international following..." and p. 20: Footage in which Gilbert "kisses" Pringle's cheek with his eyelashes was deemed too salacious and removed
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p 19: Index lists Vidor's mother as "Kate", not Katherine. Elizabeth Crockett was Vidor's maternal great-grandmother. On Vidor's Crockett ancestry see this link:
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The documentary records the discussions between Vidor and both Wyeth and his spouse Betsy. A montage is formed by inter-cutting images of Wyeth's paintings with short clips from Vidor's
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 186: "Northwest Passage's savage anti-indianism…" And p. 190: "the carnivorous streak in Northwest Passage." And "the single most ferocious pre-WWII film…"
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 180: "...an exploration of social violence...."And p. 184"...a strange synthesis of Western innocence and gangster morality..." and reference to Hemingway.
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Simmons, 1988: "What propels the film is Vidor's rapid staging and Robert Burks' noir cinematography...Visually at least, it's easy to glimpse expressionist echoes of the director of
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Berlinale, 2020: "In general, King Vidor was a great "actors' director". You often see performances in his films that are absolutely astounding. And often it's the women who shine..."
3446:. Wyeth had contacted Vidor in the late 1970s expressing admiration for his work. The artist emphasized that much of his material had been inspired by the director's 1925 war-romance
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ethnicity. Pearl Chavez's "half-breed" blood is rich blood, not bad blood, and whatever strain of passion she has too much of, the McCanles have too little of." (italics in original)
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 236: "The relatively happy production experience led him to sign a two picture contract with Warners." And: Beyond the Forest "came with a star set..."
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evangelical tract sponsored by a group of doctors and dentists affiliated as the independent Brentwood Film Corporation. Vidor recalls of his first foray into Hollywood film-making:
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 317: Solomon and Sheba "more than earned back its costs, which had ballooned from four million to six because of reshooting after Tyrone Powers death…"
2399:'s highly popular novel of the same name. A story of a married man tempted to revive an affair with an old flame, Vidor draws upon memories of a failed romance from his own youth.
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is softened and sentimentalized out of existence, soldiers portrayed as innocents thrust into the maw of battle, the cannons wreathed in scriptwriter's roses ... The scenes on the
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countered and complemented these structural restrictions by using a roving camera mounted on cranes, an innovation made possible by recent developments in early sound technology.
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formed the Hotex Motion Picture Company in 1914 ("HO" for Houston, "TEX" for Texas) to produce low-budget one- or two-reelers. The enterprise garnered a national press release in
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Higham, 1972: "...he has created a beautiful short film on 16mm, "Truth and Illusion," an abstract work consisting of images of nature, pure distillations of his vision of life."
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Shaw, 2013: "Rand was convinced that the New Deal had undermined the unique nature of American democracy, and The Fountainhead was an attempt to restore it to its former glory."
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And "... a trilogy Vidor thought of as "War, Wheat and Steel". It was not until 1944...that Vidor got the chance to make the "Steel" portion. He called it "An American Romance."
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studio. The film received negative reviews and was a financial failure. Some critics noted a shift in Vidor's focus from working class struggles to celebrating the ascent of a "
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Landazuri, TMC: "...Sten became known as "Goldwyn's Folly" in the 1930s, because of the failed attempt by movie mogul Sam Goldwyn to make her into the next Garbo or Dietrich."
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Thomson 2007: " strange but stirring film that finds equal fault with socialism and democracy and sets about creating a system of its own, based on the charisma of one man..."
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Berlinale 2020, 2020: "Vidor tackled women's issues early on, for instance in the silent The Real Adventure (1922), about a young wife seeking career recognition and success".
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for its song, the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken; they should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation."
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of August 1939. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 (after America's entry into WWII in December 1941), Russians became US allies in the war effort against the
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 149-150: "The film touches on the implications that the whole American democratic system is corrupt and should be left behind by this community."
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I wrote a script and sent it around ... and nine doctors put up $ 1,000 each ... and it was a success. That was the beginning. I didn't have time to go to college.
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Whiteley, 2010: Vidor "gave occasional lectures on movie directing and film making at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles."
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Higham, 1972: "Disappointed in the film, many critics noted that Vidor was now celebrating the individualist against the masses in his central figure of a Ford-like tycoon."
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Higham, 1972: "Disappointed in the film, many critics noted that Vidor was now celebrating the individualist against the masses in his central figure of a Ford-like tycoon."
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He did not appear as a featured actor until 1981, at the age of 85. Vidor provided a "charming" tongue-in-cheek portrayal of Walter Klein, a senile grandfather, in director
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along with business partner Sedgwick, moved to California in search of employment in the emerging Hollywood movie industry, arriving on the West Coast virtually penniless.
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Steinberg, TMC: "This expensively mounted Bible saga, however, is also marked with the unfortunate distinction of having a major leading man become a production casualty."
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and starred Vidor's then wife Florence Arto Vidor (married in 1915), a rising actor in Hollywood pictures. Vidor ended his association with the Brentwood group in 1920.
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Thomson, 2007: "Vidor did detective research on the old William Desmond Taylor Hollywood murder case from 1922, which eventually turned into Sidney Kirkpatrick's book,
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 96: "...one of the experiments 70 millimeter wide-screen photography." and "compromised in impending popularity of gangsters films such
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flappers. King Vidor's tenure as a studio stringer was at an end. His next feature would transform his career and have a resounding impact on the late silent film era:
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In 1922, Vidor produced and directed films that served as vehicles for his spouse, Florence Vidor, notable only for their "artificiality". These works conformed to the
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 Also p. 76: On Gish's "auteurism" and control over La Bohème. See p. 59: Vidor "ashamed" of Bardelys the Magnificent. And pp. 90–91 on spoof.
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 222: "...industrial epic…" And p. 223: "...a chaos of revisions, even by Hollywood standards." See footnote on same page for chronology.
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Vidor's earlier films tend to identify with the common people in a collective struggle, whereas his later works place individualists at the center of his narratives.
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Thomson, 2011: "The Crash of 1929 was followed by years of sinking economic depression. In the early '30s, the size of the audience withered. The studios faced ruin.
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era, this "omnibus" presents vignettes filmed or performed by an array of actors and directors (some of them returning from service in the armed forces) among them
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Silver, 1982: "We will probably never know for sure just how much of the film was directed by Vidor, Sternberg, William Dieterle, Otto Brower, or David O. Selznick.
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showcases the essential elements of Vidor's oeuvre depicting the extremes of passion inherent in humanity and nature. Vidor commented on these elements as follows:
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inserted a leitmotif into those sequences where Rosa obsessively longs for escape from the dull, rural Loyalton to the cosmopolitan and sophisticated Chicago. The "
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Thomson, 2007: "A conventional script was written, but when it proved unsatisfactory, Rand took up the task for free – as long as no one messed with her dialogue."
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Baxter, 1976 p. 76-77: "...hardly recognizable as a Vidor film except in its desert setting and its bizarre central situation... traditional Warner's melodramas…"
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In an effort to enlarge movie director's meager influence in studio production decisions, Vidor personally exhorted a dozen or more leading directors, among them
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Silver, 2012: "Whatever its moral and racist implications might be, it is, like the whole of Northwest Passage, undeniably an extraordinary piece of filmmaking."
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 61, p. 95: Vidor expressed his view that sound films would "...do away entirely with the art of motion pictures..." (Interview with
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Baxter 1976, p. 14: Vidor is quoted as saying that "DeMille made me want to give up directing.", and p. 17: "the artificiality of his films with Florence Vidor."
2134:(1940). This period would be one of transition for Vidor but would lead to an artistic phase where he created some of his richest and most characteristic works.
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Baxter, 1976 p. 85: Baxter reports the same disparity between Power's and Brynner's understanding of the Solomon character as Vidor wished it to be performed."
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Baxter, 1972 p, 152–153: Baxter reports that only "twelve theaters" in the US were fitted to present 70 millimeter prints, with 35mm used in most movie houses.
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by his mother at a very early age. Vidor would endow his films with the moral precepts of the faith, a "blend of pragmatic self-help and religious mysticism."
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Vidor, an unabashed Texan, carried much of the baggage of a Southern upbringing..." Also "scenes of great tragedy" including the death Zeke's younger brother.
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 181-182: "A light morality play...the two Rangers begin outside society, then join it, then acknowledge a duty to maintain it."
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Gustaffson 2016: "At his best, Vidor "made films about the human condition, about human's moral and physical battles, and the battle between us and nature.
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Baxter, 1976. P. 5, p. 7: "...in San Francisco and Florence lived off breakfast cereal scraps found in grocer's boxes and free condensed milk samples..."
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Vidor, a third-generation Texan, encountered black workers employed at his father's sawmills when he was a child, and there he became familiar with their
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Arroyo, 2016: " desperate to get out of that one-horse town and into the nearest big city – Chicago – for the sophistication and excitement she craves."
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Baxter, 1976 p. 70: Vidor "omitted the picture from his filmography" and "Little of the film bears serious consideration." See also for actors involved..
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Baxter, 1976 p. 11 "the general tone chilled First National ... 'they had huge theaters to fill, and they wanted names, big names and more names.'"
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The topic of the film, white racial prejudice in post-WWII America, had been addressed in a number of Hollywood films of the period, including directors
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and provided them generous compensation. (American actress Rosalind Russel and Vidor were the only two non-Britons who served on the film's production).
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director, Vidor approached multiple genres and allowed the subject matter to determine the style, often pressing the limits of film-making conventions.
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Callahan, 2007: Vidor "expounded directly on his view that man is God and mind is all... and it is very valuable as a summation of most of his themes."
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 297: "One must include the saloon sequence as one of the most dazzling" of both Douglas and Vidor. And Borden Chase quote.
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Higham, 1972: "The Fountainhead" and "Beyond the Forest" with "Ruby Gentry," in which Jennifer Jones played a ferocious "free woman," became a trilogy.
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imbued with new fervor" that combines a radical social understanding with a Hollywood veneer and an intensely personal artistic statement. Vidor ranks
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studios. Later, Vidor admitted to being overawed by DeMille's talents. Florence Vidor, in her later career, frequently starred in DeMille productions.
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Beginning in 1915, Vidor served as screenwriter and director on a series of shorts about the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents by social reformer
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The sound era saw the eclipse of the Western movie that had its heyday in the silent era and by the 1930s the genre was relegated to the producers of
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Baxter, 1972 p. 152-153: "...the integration of character into landscape as never before permitted."And "...a natural complement to Duel in the Sun."
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Baxter, 1976. P. 11, p.13: "The Sky Pilot hovers uneasily between Western comedy and the celebration of landscape which is closest to Vidor's heart."
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that became "a Hollywood legend". The couple would resume their relationship after 40 years (in 1963), remaining close until Vidor's death in 1982.
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Baxter, 1976, p. 11: Vidor "struggled, finally without success" to keep the studio running. Also pp. 14–15 on antecedents to Vidor's first divorce.
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Callahan, 2007: "The movie is more Selznick than Vidor, who finally walked off the set in frustration at the impresario's compulsive suggestions."
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Berlinale 2020, 2020: "He was a Christian Scientist, although not a particularly devout one. And the creed was somewhat influenced by that faith."
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is free of the fixed moral dualities that came to typify subsequent Good Guy vs. Bad Guy Westerns in Hollywood. Starring former football champion
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Baxter, 1976 p. 68: See here for Vidor's troubling "conflicts" with "domineering moguls" under whose influence he was "pressured to do his best."
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 Also pp. 78–79: "The Crowd belongs to an internationalist wave of populist films..." dealing with working class issues.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p, 93 "...his second sound film..." And p. 93: "Davies' charm looks panicky" due to sound necessitated cutting. And p.
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movie that sets forth his philosophy on the nature of individual perception. Narrated by the director, and quoting from theologian-philosophers
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character. The eroticism inherent in the sets resonate with the on-screen sexual tension, augmented by the off-screen affair between Cooper and
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Though the final cut was made without Vidor's participation, the production reflects the participation of these talented filmmakers, among them
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Baxter 1976, p. "...shows nature as a sinister force..." p. 20: Vidor "was often able to introduce a dramatically high-lighted use of nature."
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I believe in the picture that will help humanity to free itself from the shackles of fear and suffering that have so long bound it in chains.
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demolished. At the moment when the earth is flooded, the man is destroyed. All his ambitions crumble. I think there is a fine symbol there".
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camera system (the two huge 800-pound cameras had to be transported by train). The color photography conveys more than the scenic beauty of
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Micheal Neary served as assistant director on the film, and Fred Y. Smith completed the editing. The movie was never released commercially.
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veteran Jim Sterling (Don Taylor), who returns with his bride, Japanese nurse Tae (Shirley Yamaguchi), to his parents' farm in California's
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Vidor's next film would be a startling departure from romantic entertainment to an exposure of the "cruel deception of the American dream".
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Reinhardt, 2020: "a documentary that expressed his belief in the wildest subjective idealism. The short film, complete with a passage from
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Baxter, 1976 p. 84: "...producers offered Vidor a variety of epic subjects...King of Kings...Cervantes in 1958 took on the unpromising of
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Baxter, 1976 p. 82: Vidor: "I would rather direct a battle scene with six thousand soldiers direct a love scene with two important stars…"
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 319: Vidor "taught production courses at Los Angeles universities."...And: His book an "anecdotal guidebook.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 271 And p. 308: Durgnat considers Beyond the Forest and Flaubert's Madame Bovary "approximate pairs" in theme.
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vigilantes heroes is turned to the service of law-and-order when they kill their erstwhile accomplice in crime – the "Polka Dot Bandit.".
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In his third collaboration with Goldwyn, Vidor was tasked with salvaging the producer's huge investment in Soviet-trained Russian actress
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2829:-like character, Rosa Moline (Bette Davis) into marital infidelity, murder and a sordid death, the picture has earned a reputation as a "
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directors to move the camera after the arrival of talking pictures, which was also excellent preparation for adapting the one-set play."
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in 1979, he was awarded with the Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema. In 2020, Vidor was honored with a retrospective at the
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5551:), a then relatively new religious movement that came about towards the end of the 19th century and to which Vidor claimed allegiance."
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7534:, War and Peace and Solomon and Sheba – celebrate heroes who, though deeply tainted by their societies, achieve a private integrity."
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 269-270: Edward Albee use of "What a Dump! And p. 278: "...the film touches on film noir expressionism..."
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Baxter, 1976 p. 63: "Tracy's success in Northwest Passage made his refusal to star in An American Romance even more hurtful to Vidor."
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 139: "...her ultimate commitment to the land..." And p. 145: "blood" relations and rural family continuity
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1880:) initially refuses to join the Confederate army ("I don't believe Americans should fight Americans") but his sister Vallette Duncan (
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In the late 1920s European films, especially from German directors, exerted a strong influence on filmmakers internationally. Vidor's
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Vidor Village went bankrupt in 1922 and Vidor, now without a studio, offered his services to the top executives in the film industry.
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Berlinale 2020, 2020: "It was important to Vidor that Tyrone Power could play that conflict, because it echoed experience in life."
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WSWS Reinhardt 2020: "What distinguished him as an artist was his instinct for substantial and relevant social topics and conflicts."
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hostilities between America and Russia. The Soviet government responded in 1967 with its own heavily financed adaption of the novel,
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treatment of a Western theme concerning a conflict between two generations of the McCanles family. The elderly and crippled McCanles
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 114:"A melting-pot Western...a populist plot... stressing the.diverse heritages of the immigrants to
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Rediscovering Hallelujah (1929), director King Vidor's sensitive film with all-black cast: 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Callahan, 2007: Vidor "was eventually saddled with Brian Donlevy and Ann Richards, supporting players of limited range and appeal.'
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announcing its formation. Only still photos survive from these comedy-adventures, for which Hotex failed to collect any royalties.
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Thomson, 2007: "Vidor could see that she and Cooper were falling madly in love and was able to capture their chemistry on screen."
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adopted Brynner's approach to her character development of her Queen of Sheba, adding another facet of discord with the director.
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that led to a series of highly productive screenplay collaborations and their marriage in 1937. Vidor divorced his wife, actress
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Baxter. 1976 pp. 66–67: Baxter lists the family scenes deleted that retained "would have made it less of a stylized spectacular."
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 174: "...eight weeks of Idaho location work (made particularly cumbersome by Technicolor cameras)."
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Baxter, 1972 p. 153: "Vidor made use of a fluid camera in order to overcome the static nature of the action...craning dizzyingly"
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Baxter p, 34: Here for remarks regarding Hearst influence. And p. 36: Composite photo showing Davis impersonating the film stars.
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Gustafsson, 2016: "after a few failures Vidor put his manifesto away and tried to make films that generated some income instead."
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to proclaim Vidor 'a director for anthologies created more great moments and fewer great films than any director of his rank.'"
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Callahan, 2007: "...certainly the best-directed Bette Davis movie and still in need of extensive retrospective rehabilitation."
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Durgham and Simmons, 1988 p. 205: "...a stark view of the institution , H. M. Pulham, Esq...a film he considered most personal."
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provides an insight into the significance of Vidor's themes in his work, and is consistent with his Christian Science precepts.
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Nor will I deliberately portray anything to cause fright, suggest fear, glorify mischief, condone cruelty or extenuate malice.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 300 And p. 302-303: "The epic sprawl of Tolstoy's novel...and the piecemeal script construction."
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costume and false beard). While attempting to break into Hollywood as a director and screenwriter, Vidor took "bit parts" for
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in its brevity and realism. Studio executives were concerned that the excessive violence would alienate audiences, though the
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stylization..." And p.73: "The Fountainhead's most remarkable quality is the stylization at which Vidor so accurately aimed."
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Miller, TMC: When Vidor finished shooting Stella Dallas, "he posted a sign over his desk reading, "NO MORE GOLDWYN PICTURES!"
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Baxter 1976 p. 45-46: "By focusing on a single organism in the city, Rice exposed the universal blight of social inequality."
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Thomson, 2007: "The film was a huge hit, collecting about $ 20 million at the box office worldwide, and until the release of
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In the 1930s Vidor became a leading advocate for the formation of the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) and since 1960 called the
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And Selznick's repeated "script revisions" delivered in person on the set led Vidor to withdraw amid "mutual recriminations"
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Contrary to his aesthetic aversion to adapting historical spectaculars, in 1955 Vidor accepted independent Italian producer
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 236: "...the film was her last with the studio, for whom she had worked for seventeen years..."
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Vidor found the constant presence of Selznick on the set galling and he walked off when the film was not quite completed."
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In some American cities it screened for more than a year." Also: Decades after its release "it remains a formidable work."
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Baxter, 1972 p. 159: "...The Wedding March was last extravagant fling" at establishing Sten as major Hollywood actress.
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failed to recoup its $ 2 million production costs. The cinematography earned an Oscer nomination in that category.
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in 1931. The Champ would prove to be a successful vehicle for Berry and propel him to top-rank among M-G-M movie stars.
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Thomson, 2007: "The movie was released in June 1949, and it was another hit for Vidor, but it was not reviewed kindly."
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Thomson, 2007: "He received five best director nominations and an honorary Oscar" from the Academy of Arts and Science.
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During the 1930s Vidor, though under contract to M-G-M studios, made four films under loan-out to independent producer
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Thomson, 2007: "In 1981, he took a supporting role in James Toback's Love and Money – and played it with great charm."
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 317: "The Metaphor arose from a fan letter from Andrew Wyeth praising Vidor's 1925 film
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 352-353: The film is addressed only in the Filmography section, not in the body of book.
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Higham 1972: "a team of businessmen supported him in making a work exemplifying his own Christian Science principles."
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was cut from the final release, a disappointment to Vidor.) The picture's title was changed shortly after opening to
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 302"...the 1967 Soviet adaption...a mixture of sentimentality and superficial realism…"
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marked a new, cautious liberalization of Hollywood's attitudes to America's assorted race prejudices..." And p.243:
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objections." And p. 181: The Brown/Billy character "shuttles between being a justified and near-psychotic murderer."
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town of "Arcadia". The script's dialogue contains oblique references to a number of Vidor's silent films including (
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prevails against the hired gunslinger Steve Miles (Richard Boone) who had years ago murdered Rae's younger brother.
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 236: "A 26-episode serial of Westerns for television." And Warner's' offer to direct
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Baxter, 1976 p. 64: Vidor "rejected the merely scenic ... opportunities…" And p. 66: Vidor's "documentary realism"
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Berlinale archive, 2020: Warlock "succumbs to the erotic charms of a lower-class woman – with fatal consequences."
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led the film industry to anticipate the same for Cukor's adaption of Mitchell's Civil War epic. To the contrary,
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seeking increased opportunities to examine scripts before filming and to make the initial cut on a movie.
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professional... any case, he would never again have such control over a studio production."
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the body, bourgeois routine, lost love. They always emerge stronger from their struggle."
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her lover Boake hunt one another is "perhaps the best sequence ever filmed."
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https://www.filmcomment.com/article/beyond-the-forest-king-vidor-bette-davis/
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Hampton, Howard. 2013. Into the Morass. Film Comment. July–August 2013 Issue
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https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/programme/detail.html?film_id=202002542
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I will never picture evil or wrong, except to prove the fallacy of its line.
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Callahan, Dan. 2007. Vidor, King. Senses of Cinema. February 2007, Issue 42
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create the only movie version of the greatest Russian novel ever written..."
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 152: See here for Vidor's "political ambiguity."
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https://notesonfilm1.com/2016/10/21/beyond-the-forest-king-vidor-usa-1949/
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elicited "complaints in Congress about the picture's unbridled sexuality."
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 173: Same "no more Goldwyn pictures!" quote.
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stereotypes and his treatment bears no resemblance to the overt racism in
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http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/06/15/king-vidors-hallelujah/
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http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/73733/Duel-in-the-Sun/articles.html
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Baxter, 1976 p: 36: Composite image of Vidor and Davies on The Patsy set.
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https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive-2020/programme/detail/202002560.html
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https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive-2020/programme/detail/202011039.html
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Baxter, 1976 p. 58: Over the Rainbow, "the film's most famous sequence…"
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Baxter, 1976 p. 54: See thumbnail sketch of film and "Polka Dot Bandit".
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find the Northwest Passage, although filming never began because author
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Vidor deferred his own salary to make the low-budget work, filming the "
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Stafford, TMC: The Fountainhead's "large, artificial sets designed by
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Baxter 1976 p. 43: On influence of Hemingway's literary style on film.
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1945:. Vidor presents a morality play where the low-cunning of the outlaws
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King Vidor (center) with Renée Adorée and John Gilbert. On the set of
587:, who the director had discovered on a Hollywood streetcar. The films
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 97: "...both is and isn't a musical..."
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The Texas Rangers: A History of Frontier Defense of the Texas Rangers
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troubling – reflected in their one-year delay in releasing the film.
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Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award – Feature Film
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http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95243/The-Wedding-Night/articles.html
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mutilation of the film "half-chopped lap-dissolves" made in "haste".
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miscegenation were so strong that fatalism was built into premise."
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consists of a number of interviews between the director and painter
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garnered Vidor further offers to film historical epics, among these
2642:(1948) is a film sketch that Vidor participated in with co-director
2395:: With wife and screenwriting partner Elizabeth Hill, Vidor adapted
2349:(1940) was conceived as a vehicle for M-G-M's glamorous acquisition
1606:) abandons her life in a great metropolis to visit her grandfather (
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Fitzgerald. There Vidor mixed with literary expatriates, among them
721:(1921) was a big-budget western-comedy shot on location in the high
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I believe in the motion picture that carries a message to humanity.
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At the age of sixteen Vidor dropped out of a private high school in
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8511:. Senses of Cinema. CTEQ Annotations on Film Issue 68 August 2013.
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Baxter, 1976 p. 80: "...Douglas' charmingly lecherous performance…"
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 281: Vidor's eye was on Ruby Gentry..."
5818:, was the studio's highest-grossing picture." And: "The success of
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Baxter, 1976, p. 5: Vidor remarked that he "hated" the institution.
5366:"King Vidor, 88, Director of Films for More Than 40 Years, Is Dead"
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hatred, claiming retaliation for brutal attacks against settlers."
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2890:. Steiner earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Score.
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in a film version of her famous juvenile role as Peg O'Connell in
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http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/596/The-Fountainhead/articles.html
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: The scripts "astonishing rhetoric..."
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remains the enduring picture of the Vidor–Davies collaborations.
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Vidor, in a partnership with vaudevillian and movie entrepreneur
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http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/14902/Billy-the-Kid/articles.html
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http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/title/72067/Cynara/articles.html
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to "sustain morale and confidence for audiences" during wartime.
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Higham, 1972: "Thalberg of MGM said it was out of the question."
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Brentwood Film Corporation and the "Preachment" films, 1918–1919
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Baxter, 1976 p. 80: "...Henry Fonda's languid, puzzled Pierre…"
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and the problems of an aggressively mercenary medical service…"
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work...the puritan ethic- mediated through an Afro-ethnicity."
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Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
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system. The picture that emerged is one of his "master works":
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Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
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In an effort to retain Vidor at Paramount, the production head
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862:(1923) also written by Manners, with Taylor playing a charming
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and romantic melodramas that were typical of his contemporary,
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Vidor and Moore would begin a three-year romance on the set of
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8135:"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement"
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 123: "In the unyielding terms of
3562:(1963), Vidor briefly corresponded with Fellini while writing
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3270:(uncredited) shot a number of scenes with the principal cast.
2798:, who plays the architect's ally-adversary Dominique Francon.
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7452:(1953), he states his case in a nutshell..." See quote above.
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 279: Vidor's "fullest attempt at
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Greven, 2011: "A scandalous box-office and critical failure,"
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Baxter 1976 p. 35 "Not So Dumb reveals Davies' "thin talent""
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King Vidor Retrospective 2020: A Very Wide-ranging Director
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neurotic violence and in vindicating a 'notorious' woman."
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Baxter, 1976 p. 53-54: Thumbnail sketch of So Red the Rose.
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2212:. By the end of the decade high-budget films depicting the
8545:. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
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Tonguette, 2011: "...Wyeth insists he has seen 180 times."
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p.243: "...probably the second
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Baxter 1976 p, 63, p. 66: "...unmistakably a master work."
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during this period of relative inactivity. A "low-budget"
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Screen Directors Guild and the Directors Guild of America
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http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/moguls/king_vidor.html
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/07/ber2-a07.html
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http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/77194/H-M-Pulham-Esq-/
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Vidor researched the murder of silent era actor-director
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productions, Vidor remarked, "I'm glad I got out of it."
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Vidor's characterization of Davis as the unsophisticated
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takes after his refined mother, while Lewt "the bad son"
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from which he was diverted to perform pre-production for
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Hendrik Sartov (cinematographer), King Vidor (director),
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male-dominated society, or play the game by male rules."
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Vidor was involved in script writing for an adaption of
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1960:. Made on the 100th anniversary of the formation of the
1922:(1939) enjoyed immense commercial and critical success.
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613:"Vidor Village" and First National Exhibitors, 1920–1925
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 278: "worst" of his career.
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Thomson, 2007: "His father was a well-off lumberman..."
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melodrama that tracks the descent of a petty-bourgeois
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studios approached him to direct an adaption of author
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806:. Vidor would soon marry model and future film actress
8443:. Senses of Cinema. CTEQ Annotations on Film Issue 68
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Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 30, p. 236-237, p. 315-316
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3309:. Vidor finally settled on the Old Testament story of
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arranged for Vidor to film two more Gilbert vehicles:
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in Hollywood, Florence Vidor procured a contract with
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http://sensesofcinema.com/2013/cteq/the-fountainhead/
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Scary Monsters (and Super Tramps) – Beyond the Forest
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http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/great-directors/vidor/
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Miller, TMC: Background on Vidor 1925 failed affair..
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The story by co-producer Anson Bond concerns wounded
1756:. Goldwyn's effort to elevate Sten to the stature of
1545:, the tropical location and mixed-race love theme in
1078:, a film of "great and enduring merit", leading lady
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8385:. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 70-186026.
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and other exercises in the celebration of violence."
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was released in 1982, shortly before Vidor's death.
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Vidor and the John Gilbert collaborations: 1925–1926
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Holiday greetings from the Vidors, December 25, 1920
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http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/12500/Champ-The/
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5084:In 1964, he received the Golden Plate Award of the
3631:, but Vidor withdrew his name from the production.
2497:and to create a movie rivaling his successful 1939
2003:(DGA), when television directors joined its ranks.
1704:The adoption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by
1309:and began recruiting an all African-American cast.
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11245:Berlin International Film Festival jury presidents
9804:Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
8717:in L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Provo, Utah
8561:The Invention of the Western Film: Duel in the Sun
8487:World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
6580:Baxter, 1976 p. 57: On the "blow up" of the sewer.
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3380:Truth and Illusion: An Introduction to Metaphysics
3126:(1919). Vidor's persistent efforts to revive this
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2886:) in an ironic style reminiscent of film composer
1642:– "wheat" – is a sequel to his silent masterpiece
436:Vidor featured in the February 21, 1920, issue of
8580:. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
8405:http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/100/The-Crowd/
8392:. August 2013 CTEQ Annotations of Film Issue 68.
6501:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 173 and p. 351 re:
5262:"12th Berlin International Film Festival: Juries"
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2774:Vidor's most outstanding cinematic innovation in
2122:. Vidor further invested six months shooting an
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8157:"11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)"
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7661:Baxter, 1976 p. 82-83: "British cinematographer
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3585:a "quite faithful" version of the 1860 story by
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3120:, pursued a remake of the director's silent era
2717:Vidor's three films for Warner Brothers studios—
2501:. Selzick's personal and artistic ambitions for
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1086:a picaresque swashbuckler mimicked the films of
999:"One of his least satisfactory silent films ...
669:The first production from Vidor Village was his
11983:Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients
8564:http://archive.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN15062
8547:http://archive.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN19827
7446:Whiteley, 2010: "...a well-received biography…"
5864:Silver 2010: "one of the crown jewels of the ."
5287:"6th Moscow International Film Festival (1969)"
3068:Light's Diamond Jubilee, General Electric, 1954
2572:(1920) both starring Lillian Gish, visited the
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1515:and RKO Pictures : Sojourn in Hawaii, 1932
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8394:http://sensesofcinema.com/2013/cteq/the-crowd/
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7934:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 315-317 And p. 17
7317:Levy, 2005: Film score nomination for Steiner.
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3180:(an adaptation of the novel by Russian author
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2345:: A political comedy set in the Soviet Union,
2239:In the summer of 1939, Vidor began filming in
2106:These unconsummated projects at M-G-M include
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2624:In the aftermath of his critical failures in
2514:. Vidor was awarded sole screen credit after
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1724:years, when movie studios feared bankruptcy.
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704:King Vidor and Colleen Moore on location for
11968:Presidents of the Directors Guild of America
8366:. 1972. "Long Live Vidor, A Hollywood King"
8310:. University of California Press, Berkeley.
8201:"Berlinale 2020: Retrospective "King Vidor""
8040:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 67–.
6164:Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 96, 173, 174, 177
5382:
2996:, Vidor revisits the themes and scenario of
2852:Despising the role assigned her by producer
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1494:(1921), as well as Vidor's own early silent
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9248:(1954) (TV special, with 6 other directors)
8618:King Vidor (1894–1982) Hollywood Golden Age
8149:
5840:Baxter 1976 pp. 26, 28: "a la Fairbanks..."
5166:characterizes any director's mature style."
3862:King Vidor and Colleen Moore on the set of
3466:
3434:: King Vidor meets with Andrew Wyeth (1980)
3386:In the mid-1960s Vidor crafted a 26-minute
3324:
3145:
1716:The excellent cast, drawn largely from the
365:Vidor was born into a well-to-do family in
11711:
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7096:Baxter, 1976 p. 71: "controversial novel…"
5354:Gallagher, 2007; Mother was "Scotch-Irish"
5279:
2443:-like" industrial magnate. Film historian
42:
9302:
8230:Beyond the Forest (King Vidor, USA, 1949)
4781:Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
3672:
3245:Vidor was delighted with the vitality of
1994:
1090:. Vidor would spoof the movie on his own
829:engaged Vidor to direct Broadway actress
470:army parade to a newsreel outfit (titled
8377:Doubleday & Company, Inc. New York.
8375:The Art of the American Film: 1900–1971.
8333:American Triptych: Vidor, Hawks and Ford
8326:https://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/titles/1101
8034:Donald T. Critchlow (October 21, 2013).
6408:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 172, p.176
5096:, showcasing more than 30 of his films.
4778:
4729:
4678:
3857:
3207:'s offer to create a screen adaption of
3172:, rated as "a minor work" by biographer
3055:In 1953, Vidor's autobiography entitled
2902:tale of a deadly love triangle starring
2882:" theme surfaces (a tune made famous by
2790:and contribute to the film's compelling
2709:. Vidor immediately accepted the offer.
2292:of the post-World War II period and the
2192:
1337:
985:
891:
887:
699:
616:
431:
360:
349:In 1962, he was head of the jury at the
27:American writer and director (1894–1982)
9984:Museum of Modern Art Department of Film
8187:"King Vidor | Deutsche Kinemathek"
7947:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 86, p. 317
7925:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 17, p. 317
7448:Callahan, 2007: "In his autobiography,
5094:70th Berlin International Film Festival
5090:11th Moscow International Film Festival
3211:'s vast historical romance of the late-
3195:
2243:a Western-themed picture using the new
2097:director such as Vidor in this period:
1868:'s response to the war among the white
955:'s seducer that one scene was deleted.
461:and returned to Galveston to work as a
351:12th Berlin International Film Festival
220: 1932; died 1978)
14:
11890:
7986:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 86 p. 317
7154:Baxter, 1976 p. 72: Frank Lloyd Wright
5822:turned Vidor into a top asset at MGM."
3652:(1986), that Vidor solved the murder.
2481:When Selznick purchased the rights to
1551:included nudity and sexual eroticism.
355:6th Moscow International Film Festival
11692:
11217:
10665:
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8001:Thomson, 2007: "Vidor had a ranch in
7527:Baxter, 1976 p. 80: "a minor work..."
7094:. "Vidor was immediately keen on it."
6743:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 352–353
6105:(1932) and the popularity of mobster
5363:
3679:University of California, Los Angeles
3113:wrote the scripts for both segments.
2778:is his highly stylized images of the
1137:The Marion Davies comedies, 1928–1930
497:In 1915, newlyweds Vidor and actress
11938:American people of Hungarian descent
10693:Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
8531:Silver, Charles. 2012. King Vidor's
8349:La furia umana. LFU/28 Winter 2016.
8061:Vidor, King Wallis (June 15, 1963).
7901:
7710:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 310-311
7537:out to do as a personal project..."
6472:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 172-173
5364:Flint, Peter B. (November 2, 1982).
3905:
2167:The protagonist, Dr. Andrew Manson (
1987:offered him a biopic of Texas icon,
1330:
1003:does not wear well: the portrait of
883:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM): 1923–1944
346:Lifetime Achievement Award in 1957.
11913:20th-century American screenwriters
9808:Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson
8082:"Confidence in Ever-Present Supply"
8080:Vidor, King Wallis (January 1959).
7359:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 284-285
6522:Baxter, 1976 p. 59, p. 61: Vidor's
6261:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 149-150
6211:Higham, 1972: "...his masterpiece,
4658:Directed Academy Award performances
3772:Vidor published his autobiography,
3097:) in which a retired wagon-master,
3072:As part of the 75th Anniversary of
2263:an American colonial-era epic novel
2156:The movie is a close adaptation of
2045:
729:stars as the intrepid preacher and
505:Hollywood apprenticeship: 1915–1918
446:Amateur apprenticeship in Galveston
425:Vidor attended grade school at the
388:magazine. In an interview with the
24:
11908:20th-century American male writers
8335:. Senses of Cinema. February 2007
6982:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p.243:
5796:(dir: Lewis Milestone, USA 1930)."
4830:Academy Awards in King Vidor films
3374:Post-Hollywood projects, 1959–1981
3022:"as a truly great American film...
1420:Filmed just before passage of the
25:
11994:
11918:Academy Honorary Award recipients
9762:Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
9744:20th Century-Fox Film Corporation
9530:and his associates / Rey Scott /
9408:Museum of Modern Art Film Library
8699:King Vidor: The Editor's Director
8628:
8099:Vidor, King Wallis (March 1961).
6925:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 239
6916:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 235
6540:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 174
6490:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 172
6417:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 185
6351:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 165
6340:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 166
6287:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 117
5486:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 21-22
5475:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 21-22
3683:University of Southern California
2678:. (An episode with British actor
2560:, famous for his silent classics
2489:in 1944, Vidor agreed to rewrite
2361:(1939). "Comrade" X is played by
1777:) and a farm girl (Sten) from an
571:(1919), a film presentation of a
429:, located in San Antonio, Texas.
8662:
8650:
8635:
8347:King Vidor, An American Romantic
8193:
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7956:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 317
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7877:(1925)" a film he had studied ."
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7838:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988: p. 317
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6007:Baxter 1972 p. 152: "real negro"
5987:Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 95
3753:
2864:-like Rosa (the film was titled
2474:(1924), this time with producer
1841:Paramount production manager at
1168:
1159:
405:scene for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
243:
192:
162:
10025:National Endowment for the Arts
9532:British Ministry of Information
8143:American Academy of Achievement
8124:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 319
7674:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 300
7614:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 302
7470:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 254
7341:Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 281
7042:). And "Lust in the Dust" quote
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5086:American Academy of Achievement
5079:
3495:had proven prohibitive enough.
2840:Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2762:Rand's political philosophy of
2695:and produced on his ranch when
2323:Vidor used the new three-strip
1202:, a comedy of manners, brought
756:helped to finance the picture.
666:magazine's January 1920 issue.
660:His "manifesto" was carried in
217:
188:
158:
11978:Western (genre) film directors
9522:, John N. A. Hawkins, and the
8412:Hollywood Directors: 1914–1940
8252:Berlinale archive 2020. 2020.
8067:The Christian Science Sentinel
8063:"Overcoming Fear as Ignorance"
7178:who was heavily influenced by
5883:While it was not a smash hit,
5862:Berlinale, 2020. "Guts" quote.
5794:All Quiet on the Western Front
5208:
5198:
5189:
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5169:
5159:
5140:
5135:All Quiet on the Western Front
5122:
5106:
4732:Academy Award for Best Actress
4542:All Quiet on the Western Front
4473:Academy Awards and nominations
3900:
3574:and they dropped the project.
3221:(1869). In the public domain,
2973:Before beginning direction of
2895:Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
1964:the picture includes standard
1342:Nina Mae McKinney as Chick in
1184:Right image: Davies imitating
1055:All Quiet on the Western Front
682:As film critic and biographer
13:
1:
11943:American television directors
11923:American Christian Scientists
10051:National Film Board of Canada
8594:Smith, Richard Harland. TMC.
8222:
8101:"That which hath been is now"
8086:The Christian Science Journal
7799:Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
2988:(1952): Twentieth Century Fox
2927:(1952): Twentieth Century Fox
1823:Paramount Pictures: 1935–1936
1178:Left image: Davies imitating
1110:(1928) and cinematic populism
401:In 1939, he would direct the
11963:People from Galveston, Texas
4681:Academy Award for Best Actor
4321:(1939) (Kansas scenes only)
3790:
2786:were strongly influenced by
2032:American Federation of Labor
1661:The Goldwyn films: 1931–1937
1074:, both released in 1926. In
1017:The Art of the American Film
482:Hotex Motion Picture Company
371:Hungarian Revolution of 1848
7:
11933:American male screenwriters
9791:Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
8428:Landazuri, Margarita. TMC.
8417:Landazuri, Margarita. TMC.
7437:Baxter, 1976 p. 4, p. 79-80
7040:The Best Years of Our Lives
6821:Higham, 1972: On "trilogy".
3825:(adopted by Jascha Heifetz)
3519:(formerly The Milly Story):
3287:War and Peace (film series)
2593:The Best Years of Our Lives
2128:The Witch in the Wilderness
1570:Great Depression: 1933–1934
382:Galveston Hurricane of 1900
10:
11999:
10809:Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
9480:Motion Picture Relief Fund
8410:Koszarski, Richard. 1976.
4613:You Can't Take It with You
3473:Northwest Passage (Book 2)
2713:Warner Brothers: 1949–1951
2001:Directors Guild of America
1912:The box-office failure of
1457:Shot partially in the new
1285:Early sound era: 1929–1937
1220:Hearst's San Simeon estate
978:A silent-era magnum opus:
390:Directors Guild of America
11958:Film producers from Texas
11953:Film directors from Texas
11727:
11537:
11376:
11251:
10998:
10699:
10437:
10144:
9958:
9748:Bell & Howell Company
9700:
9524:RCA Manufacturing Company
9348:
9308:
8797:The Chocolate of the Gang
8773:The Grand Military Parade
8759:
8598:. Turner Classic Movies.
8476:. Turner Classic Movies.
8454:. Turner Movie Classics.
8452:The Essentials: The Champ
8432:).Turner Classic Movies.
8421:. Turner Movie Classics.
8419:The Wedding Night (1935)
8403:. Turner Classic Movies.
8324:. Turner Classic Movies.
8306:and Simmon, Scott. 1988.
8240:Hollywood in the Thirties
8105:Christian Science Journal
7307:about moving to Chicago."
6109:among some ethnic groups.
4970:
4650:
4578:
4558:
4548:
4498:
4018:(1920) (as King W. Vidor)
4002:(1919) (as King W. Vidor)
3994:(1919) (as King W. Vidor)
3951:The Chocolate of the Gang
3912:The Grand Military Parade
2620:), Universal Studios 1948
2556:The iconic film director
2462:A sound era magnum opus:
2233:North West Mounted Police
1591:Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1527:Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO)
1349:Vidor's first sound film
1084:Bardelys the Magnificent,
1034:, a war romance starring
837:, written by her husband
790:. Vidor followed up with
543:Judge Willis Brown series
472:The Grand Military Parade
228:
134:
126:
106:
102:King W. Vidor, John Vidor
98:
79:
53:
41:
34:
11973:Screenwriters from Texas
11928:American anti-communists
9005:Bardelys the Magnificent
8624:Retrieved July 21, 2020.
8609:. Turner Classi Movies.
8602:Retrieved June 26, 2020.
8515:Retrieved July 11, 2020.
8497:. Simon & Schuster.
8483:Reinhardt, Bernd. 2020.
8469:Retrieved June 30, 2020.
8458:Retrieved June 26, 2020.
8447:Retrieved July 11, 2020.
8407:Retrieved June 20, 2020.
8396:Retrieved June 24, 2020.
8360:Retrieved July 11, 2020.
8328:Retrieved June 29, 2020.
8300:Retrieved June 10, 2020.
8271:Retrieved June 20, 2020.
8260:Retrieved June 26, 2020.
8235:Retrieved July 15, 2015.
6691:She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
5950:has the "funniest bits"
5935:Bardelys the Magnificent
5336:Retrieved June 22, 2020.
5099:
4254:(1932) US reissue title
4159:Bardelys the Magnificent
3930:(1916) (*as young actor)
3853:
3504:a biographical study of
3467:Unproduced film projects
3365:Contrary to claims that
2818:Beyond the Forest (1949)
1247:Bardelys the Magnificent
1071:Bardelys the Magnificent
941:. Vidor directed him in
920:(1924), from a story by
912:vulgar and cash-driven.
631:Santa Monica, California
427:Peacock Military Academy
414:Vidor was introduced to
9476:William Cameron Menzies
9245:Light's Diamond Jubilee
9221:Lightning Strikes Twice
8973:The Wife of the Centaur
8616:Whiteley, Chris. 2010.
8613:Retrieved July 7, 2020.
8591:Retrieved July 7, 2020.
8578:The Fountainhead (1949)
8573:Retrieved July 7, 2020.
8556:Retrieved July 3, 2020.
8541:Silver, Charles. 1982.
8538:Retrieved July 3, 2020.
8528:Retrieved June 24, 2020
8523:King Vidor's Hallelujah
8480:Retrieved July 7, 2020.
8465:Turner Classic Movies.
8439:Melville, David. 2013.
8436:Retrieved June 21, 2020
8425:Retrieved June 21, 2020
8373:Higham, Charles. 1973.
8370:Retrieved June 10, 2020
8353:Retrieved June 4, 2020.
8339:Retrieved May 30, 2020.
8331:Gallagher, Tag. 2007.
8293:Retrieved June 30, 2020
8282:Retrieved July 2, 2020.
8274:Berlinale, 2020. 2020.
8003:Paso Robles, California
6445:wipe out a monopolist."
4421:Light's Diamond Jubilee
4397:Lightning Strikes Twice
4127:The Wife of the Centaur
3897:, on November 1, 1982.
3895:Paso Robles, California
3882:William Randolph Hearst
3136:Universal-International
2732:Lightning Strikes Twice
2703:'s controversial novel
2634:Paso Robles, California
1632:was "war" and his 1944
1436:as his nemesis Sheriff
1188:, both from the set of
1146:William Randolph Hearst
1096:(1928) with comedienne
1024:In 1925 Vidor directed
525:studios (the spy drama
91:Paso Robles, California
18:A King Vidor Production
11948:California Republicans
11345:Bjørn Rasmussen (1971)
10797:Michelangelo Antonioni
10091:Michelangelo Antonioni
9615:William Nicholas Selig
9342:Academy Honorary Award
9152:(1939) (Kansas scenes)
8765:Hurricane in Galveston
8587:July 11, 2020, at the
8576:Simmons, Scott. 1988.
8559:Simmons, Scott. 2004.
8552:July 13, 2020, at the
8493:Sarris, Andrew. 1973.
8388:Hodsdon, Bruce. 2013.
8285:Berlinale 2020. 2020.
8263:Berlinale 2020. 2020.
7969:William Desmond Taylor
6549:Baxter, 1976 pp. 55–56
6355:Baxter, 1976 p. 52-53:
5870:Baxter 1976 pp. 30, 33
4647:Academy Honorary Award
4555:Outstanding Production
3919:Hurricane in Galveston
3890:
3867:
3673:Academic Presentations
3648:alleges in his novel,
3642:William Desmond Taylor
3636:William Desmond Taylor
3617:A Man Called Cervantes
3605:Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones
3419:
3405:As Vidor describes in
3259:
3101:, rebuffed by his son
3065:
3045:
2610:
2578:
2275:French and Indian Wars
2223:Drums Along the Mohawk
2205:
2162:novel of the same name
2104:
1995:Screen Directors Guild
1800:, also an adaption of
1535:US territory of Hawaii
1525:, Vidor was loaned to
1480:. Based on a story by
1346:
1058:, both 1930. Producer
1021:
994:
904:
848:
774:Vidor's next picture,
712:
658:
622:
581:
442:
399:
344:Screen Directors Guild
11828:Franklin J. Schaffner
11450:Klaus Maria Brandauer
10047:Eastman Kodak Company
9690:The Walls of Malapaga
9303:Awards for King Vidor
9093:The Stranger's Return
8607:The Fountainhead 1949
8605:Stafford, Jeff. TMC.
8569:July 9, 2020, at the
8320:Fristoe, Roger. TMC.
7146:the source material."
6963:in Technicolor after
6688:role in Ford's great
6634:Baxter, 1976 pp. 6465
6399:Baxter, 1976 p. 53-54
6224:Baxter, 1976 p. 51-52
6066:Baxter, 1976 p. 44-45
6011:The Birth of a Nation
5770:Baxter 1976, p. 19–20
5743:Baxter 1976, p. 18-19
5713:Baxter 1976, p. 15-16
5659:Baxter 1976, p. 13-14
5573:Baxter 1976. pp. 9–10
4262:The Stranger's Return
3870:
3861:
3646:Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
3411:
3301:(1961), (directed by
3255:
3061:
3037:
2650:release of the early
2601:
2554:
2196:
2099:
1962:Texas Ranger Division
1599:The Stranger's Return
1576:The Stranger's Return
1459:70 mm Grandeur system
1386:The Birth of a Nation
1341:
1142:Cosmopolitan Pictures
997:
989:
895:
888:Silent era: 1923–1928
843:
703:
639:
620:
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435:
394:
361:Early life and career
11768:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
11328:Luis García Berlanga
10857:Francis Ford Coppola
10841:Marcello Mastroianni
10819:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10602:Francis Ford Coppola
10542:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10264:Jean-Claude Carrière
9854:/ Fred L. Metzler /
9852:William L. Hendricks
9730:/ George Mitchell /
8909:Conquering the Woman
8829:The Turn in the Road
8659:at Wikimedia Commons
8596:Billy the Kid (1930)
8472:Miller, Frank. TMC.
8461:Miller, Frank. TMC.
8450:Miller, Frank. TMC.
8399:Holliman, Rod. TMC.
8308:King Vidor, American
8245:Baxter, John. 1976.
8238:Baxter, John. 1970.
8228:Arroyo, José. 2016.
7180:German Expressionism
7061:vivid without Vidor.
5831:Berlinale 2020, 2020
5543:The Turn in the Road
4374:A Miracle Can Happen
4220:The Highwayman Rides
4063:Conquering the Woman
3983:The Turn in the Road
3524:The Turn in the Road
3438:Vidor's documentary
3123:The Turn in the Road
2912:Mercedes McCambridge
2788:German Expressionism
2640:A Miracle Can Happen
2618:A Miracle Can Happen
2491:Oliver H. P. Garrett
2126:survival-adventure,
1958:Walter Prescott Webb
1802:Olive Higgins Prouty
947:(1924), based on an
777:Conquering the Woman
769:Famous Players–Lasky
568:The Turn in the Road
492:Moving Picture World
191: 1926;
161: 1915;
11876:Lesli Linka Glatter
11605:Isabella Rossellini
11186:Tony Leung Chiu-wai
10889:Suso Cecchi d'Amico
10747:Alessandro Blasetti
9921:Charles S. Boren /
9578:The House I Live In
9569:Daniel J. Bloomberg
9546:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
9181:An American Romance
8925:The Woman of Bronze
8805:Tad's Swimming Hole
8701:, Peter Tonguette,
8343:Gustafsson, Fredrik
8139:www.achievement.org
6965:Leave Her to Heaven
5966:Motion Picture News
5890:Ladri di biciclette
5600:Baxter, 1976. p. 10
5517:Baxter 1976. P. 8-9
5460:Baxter 1976. P. 5:
4353:An American Romance
4180:The Politic Flapper
4079:The Woman of Bronze
3959:Tad's Swimming Hole
3841:Belinda (1930–2023)
3838:Antonia (1927–2012)
3818:Suzanne (1918–2003)
3785:Christian Scientist
3587:Nathaniel Hawthorne
3400:subjective idealism
3188:, a story from the
2626:An American Romance
2512:Josef von Sternberg
2452:An American Romance
2420:An American Romance
2412:An American Romance
2081:An American Romance
2050:Upon completion of
1937:in the lead role.)
1775:F. Scott Fitzgerald
1718:Broadway production
1635:An American Romance
1238:. The scenario for
922:Joseph Hergesheimer
876:The Woman of Bronze
871:Clara Kimball Young
761:comedies of manners
710:Truckee, California
499:Florence Arto Vidor
299:An American Romance
11719:Presidents of the
11665:M. Night Shyamalan
11575:Charlotte Rampling
11474:Volker Schlöndorff
11396:Patricia Highsmith
11384:Jerzy Kawalerowicz
11316:Pierre Braunberger
11264:Jay Carmody (1957)
11112:Jean-Paul Belmondo
11106:Bertrand Tavernier
11096:Thelma Schoonmaker
11042:Stefania Sandrelli
11028:Manoel de Oliveira
11018:Dino De Laurentiis
10907:Giuseppe De Santis
10851:Gian Maria Volonté
10506:William A. Wellman
10244:George Stevens Jr.
9923:Edward G. Robinson
9623:George Kirke Spoor
9460:and Allen Davey /
9456:, Walter Oberst /
9452:, Harry D. Mills,
9277:Truth and Illusion
9253:Man Without a Star
9229:Japanese War Bride
9173:H. M. Pulham, Esq.
8893:The Real Adventure
8869:The Jack-Knife Man
8751:Films directed by
8711:at Virtual History
8667:Works by or about
8463:H. M. PULHAM, ESQ.
7988:Baxter, 1976 p. 91
7936:Baxter, 1976 p. 91
7809:Baxter, 1976 p. 91
7746:Baxter, 1976 p. 85
7555:Gone with the Wind
7532:Man Without a Star
7497:Baxter, 1976 p. 80
7428:Baxter, 1976 p. 79
7201:Gustafsson 2016: "
6696:Baxter, 1976 p. 63
6528:H. M. Pulham, Esq.
6513:Baxter, 1976 p. 58
6338:Baxter, 1976 p. 52
6285:Baxter, 1976 p. 18
6130:Baxter, 1976 p. 45
6111:Baxter, 1976 p. 45
6041:Galleghar, 2007: "
5866:Baxter 1972 p. 151
5816:Gone with the Wind
5805:Higham, 1973 p. 21
5734:Baxter 1976, p. 17
5722:Baxter 1976, p. 16
5677:Baxter 1976, p. 14
5562:Baxter, 1976. P. 9
5370:The New York Times
5321:Dominican Republic
4452:Truth and Illusion
4429:Man Without a Star
4405:Japanese War Bride
4345:H. M. Pulham, Esq.
4047:The Real Adventure
4023:The Jack-Knife Man
3868:
3665:, star of Vidor's
3422:Truth and Illusion
3249:'s performance as
3170:Man Without a Star
3159:Man Without a Star
3147:Man Without a Star
3140:Man Without a Star
3118:Laurence Stallings
2975:Japanese War Bride
2925:Japanese War Bride
2917:Japanese War Bride
2769:Frank Lloyd Wright
2585:Selznick launched
2499:Gone with the Wind
2391:H. M. Pulham, Esq.
2367:Hitler–Stalin Pact
2282:Laurence Stallings
2206:
2075:H. M. Pulham, Esq.
1933:was replaced with
1919:Gone with the Wind
1902:Gone with the Wind
1859:American Civil War
1843:Paramount Pictures
1804:'s popular novel.
1500:Judge Willis Brown
1347:
995:
905:
839:J. Hartley Manners
796:The Real Adventure
713:
695:The Jack Knife Man
672:The Jack Knife Man
623:
549:Judge Willis Brown
452:Box Brownie camera
443:
11885:
11884:
11686:
11685:
11563:Frances McDormand
11456:Guglielmo Biraghi
11444:Gina Lollobrigida
11322:Thorold Dickinson
11211:
11210:
11205:
11204:
11172:Catherine Deneuve
11116:Jerzy Skolimowski
11100:Frederick Wiseman
10911:Goffredo Lombardo
10871:Claudia Cardinale
10659:
10658:
10397:
10396:
10352:Samuel L. Jackson
10314:Donald Sutherland
10300:Frederick Wiseman
9862:William J. Tuttle
9822:Maurice Chevalier
9732:Joseph M. Schenck
9674:The Bicycle Thief
9601:Claude Jarman Jr.
9567:Republic Studio,
9528:Leopold Stokowski
9468:Douglas Fairbanks
9385:The March of Time
9295:
9294:
9269:Solomon and Sheba
9213:Beyond the Forest
9157:Northwest Passage
9125:The Texas Rangers
9109:The Wedding Night
8715:King Vidor papers
8692:Handbook of Texas
8687:King Wallis Vidor
8655:Media related to
8533:Northwest Passage
8507:Shaw, Dan. 2013.
8287:The Texas Rangers
8047:978-1-107-65028-2
7975:A Cast of Killers
7910:Northwest Passage
7699:Solomon and Sheba
7003:Baxter, 1976 p.70
6673:Spanish Civil War
6536:The Texas Rangers
6173:Baxter 1976 p. 49
5851:Baxter 1976 p. 33
5788:Berlinale, 2020:
5779:Baxter 1976 p. 20
5451:Baxter 1976. P. 5
5428:Baxter 1976, p. 5
5345:Baxter 1976, p. 4
5148:Northwest Passage
5077:
5076:
5039:Beyond the Forest
4976:Northwest Passage
4932:The Texas Rangers
4827:
4826:
4655:
4654:
4469:
4468:
4445:Solomon and Sheba
4389:Beyond the Forest
4329:Northwest Passage
4294:The Texas Rangers
4278:The Wedding Night
3876:had driven up to
3783:King Vidor was a
3758:In 1944 Vidor, a
3715:Vitagraph Studios
3696:'s class at USC.
3650:A Cast of Killers
3506:Christian Science
3480:Northwest Passage
3367:Solomon and Sheba
3354:Solomon and Sheba
3348:Gina Lollobrigida
3333:Solomon and Sheba
3326:Solomon and Sheba
3319:Gina Lollobrigida
3311:Solomon and Sheba
3205:Dino De Laurentis
3186:Solomon and Sheba
3128:Christian Science
3078:David O. Selznick
2948:Home of the Brave
2811:Beyond the Forest
2726:Beyond the Forest
2648:Universal Studios
2476:David O. Selznick
2429:Northwest Passage
2407:H. M. Pulham, Esq
2383:H.M. Pulham, Esq.
2333:Northwest Passage
2318:Northwest Passage
2310:Northwest Passage
2257:Northwest Passage
2249:Northwest Passage
2132:Northwest Passage
2063:Northwest Passage
1974:David O. Selznick
1939:The Texas Rangers
1897:Margaret Mitchell
1882:Margaret Sullavan
1835:The Texas Rangers
1767:The Wedding Night
1747:St. Mark's Square
1679:The Wedding Night
1430:Johnny Mack Brown
1424:of 1933, Vidor's
1409:M-G-M 1930–1931:
1361:Nina Mae McKinney
1279:George S. Kaufman
1088:Douglas Fairbanks
786:(1919), starring
573:Christian Science
519:Vitagraph Studios
439:Exhibitors Herald
420:Christian Science
287:Northwest Passage
239:King Wallis Vidor
236:
235:
127:Years active
58:King Wallis Vidor
16:(Redirected from
11990:
11713:
11706:
11699:
11690:
11689:
11653:Juliette Binoche
11629:Darren Aronofsky
11504:Nikita Mikhalkov
11468:Michael Ballhaus
11238:
11231:
11224:
11215:
11214:
11192:Sigourney Weaver
11166:Jamie Lee Curtis
11136:Vanessa Redgrave
11132:David Cronenberg
11090:William Friedkin
11078:Marco Bellocchio
10955:Gérard Depardieu
10941:Vittorio Gassman
10883:Steven Spielberg
10803:Federico Fellini
10791:Cesare Zavattini
10787:Sergei Yutkevich
10737:Anatoli Golovnya
10686:
10679:
10672:
10663:
10662:
10608:Steven Spielberg
10518:Rouben Mamoulian
10490:Alfred Hitchcock
10442:Cecil B. DeMille
10424:
10417:
10410:
10401:
10400:
10236:D. A. Pennebaker
10226:James Earl Jones
10079:Federico Fellini
10003:Barbara Stanwyck
9976:Laurence Olivier
9878:Y. Frank Freeman
9812:Charles Brackett
9720:Merian C. Cooper
9669:Cecil B. DeMille
9646:Monsieur Vincent
9593:Laurence Olivier
9583:Peggy Ann Garner
9562:Margaret O'Brien
9404:W. Howard Greene
9390:W. Howard Greene
9335:
9328:
9321:
9312:
9311:
9299:
9298:
9205:The Fountainhead
9197:On Our Merry Way
9149:The Wizard of Oz
9077:Bird of Paradise
8933:Three Wise Fools
8861:The Family Honor
8813:The Accusing Toe
8745:
8738:
8731:
8722:
8721:
8703:Senses of Cinema
8666:
8654:
8645:
8643:Biography portal
8640:
8639:
8638:
8509:The Fountainhead
8304:Durgnat, Raymond
8216:
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8190:
8183:
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8176:
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8172:
8167:on July 28, 2014
8163:. Archived from
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7203:The Fountainhead
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4381:The Fountainhead
4372:, also known as
4369:On Our Merry Way
4318:The Wizard of Oz
4243:Bird of Paradise
4178:, also known as
4087:Three Wise Fools
4015:The Family Honor
3967:The Accusing Toe
3906:
3833:Eleanor Boardman
3774:A Tree is a Tree
3700:Vidor as actor:
3554:Federico Fellini
3392:Jonathan Edwards
3307:Miguel Cervantes
3261:Cinematographer
3057:A Tree is a Tree
3050:A Tree is a Tree
2888:Bernard Herrmann
2802:The Fountainhead
2776:The Fountainhead
2756:The Fountainhead
2745:The Fountainhead
2720:The Fountainhead
2706:The Fountainhead
2685:On Our Merry Way
2680:Charles Laughton
2660:Paulette Goddard
2656:Burgess Meredith
2614:On Our Merry Way
2532:Lionel Barrymore
2508:William Dieterle
2397:John P. Marquand
2314:
2203:Over the Rainbow
2188:Over the Rainbow
2180:The Wizard of Oz
2087:The Wizard of Oz
2046:M-G-M: 1938–1944
1866:antebellum South
1806:Barbara Stanwyck
1709:cinematographer
1608:Lionel Barrymore
1564:Bird of Paradise
1560:Eleanor Boardman
1548:Bird of Paradise
1513:Bird of Paradise
1365:William Fontaine
1357:Daniel L. Haynes
1325:Nicholas Schenck
1303:Ernest Hemingway
1182:with King Vidor
1172:
1163:
909:Goldwyn Pictures
808:Eleanor Boardman
765:Cecil B. DeMille
690:The Family Honor
511:Corinne Griffith
408:The Wizard of Oz
367:Galveston, Texas
324:Barbara Stanwyck
280:(1925). Vidor's
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11870:Thomas Schlamme
11858:Taylor Hackford
11846:Martha Coolidge
11810:George Schaefer
11762:George Marshall
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11687:
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11671:Kristen Stewart
11569:Roland Emmerich
11533:
11462:Rolf Liebermann
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11334:Johannes Schaaf
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11207:
11206:
11201:
11162:Roberto Benigni
11142:Pedro Almodóvar
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10959:Stanley Kubrick
10923:Martin Scorsese
10915:Ennio Morricone
10865:Paolo Villaggio
10847:Mario Monicelli
10815:Luigi Comencini
10767:Alexander Kluge
10763:Jean-Luc Godard
10733:Charlie Chaplin
10695:
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10614:Martin Scorsese
10596:Stanley Kubrick
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10388:Carol Littleton
10346:Lina Wertmüller
10306:Charles Burnett
10292:Lynn Stalmaster
10250:Angela Lansbury
10216:Jean-Luc Godard
10192:Robert F. Boyle
10186:Ennio Morricone
10140:
9954:
9916:Charlie Chaplin
9768:/ Kemp Niver /
9737:Forbidden Games
9696:
9619:Albert E. Smith
9510:Nathan Levinson
9458:Oliver T. Marsh
9442:Farciot Edouart
9434:Gordon Jennings
9360:Charlie Chaplin
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9339:
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9189:Duel in the Sun
9117:So Red the Rose
9101:Our Daily Bread
8917:Peg o' My Heart
8885:Love Never Dies
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8634:
8631:
8589:Wayback Machine
8571:Wayback Machine
8554:Wayback Machine
8543:Duel in the Sun
8519:Silver, Charles
8474:Duel in the Sun
8364:Higham, Charles
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4848:Academy Award
4846:
4843:Academy Award
4841:
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4825:
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4821:
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4805:
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4763:Jennifer Jones
4760:
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4631:George Stevens
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4325:
4314:
4306:
4298:
4290:
4282:
4274:
4266:
4258:
4256:I Was Faithful
4247:
4239:
4231:
4223:
4218:, US TV title
4211:
4203:
4195:
4185:
4184:
4183:
4171:
4163:
4155:
4147:
4143:The Big Parade
4139:
4131:
4123:
4115:
4107:
4099:
4091:
4083:
4075:
4067:
4059:
4051:
4043:
4035:
4027:
4019:
4011:
4007:Poor Relations
4003:
3999:The Other Half
3995:
3987:
3979:
3971:
3963:
3955:
3947:
3939:
3931:
3923:
3915:
3904:
3902:
3899:
3869:
3855:
3852:
3851:
3850:
3849:(m. 1932–1978)
3847:Elizabeth Hill
3844:
3843:
3842:
3839:
3830:
3829:
3828:
3827:
3826:
3820:
3819:
3815:
3814:
3813:
3812:
3809:Jascha Heifetz
3792:
3789:
3764:anti-communist
3755:
3752:
3748:Love and Money
3743:Love and Money
3705:
3702:Love and Money
3698:
3687:On Film Making
3674:
3671:
3602:'s 1967 novel
3572:Allied Artists
3534:The Big Parade
3468:
3465:
3457:The Big Parade
3449:The Big Parade
3435:
3429:
3383:
3377:
3375:
3372:
3329:
3323:
3247:Audrey Hepburn
3213:Napoleonic era
3200:
3194:
3150:
3144:
3132:Allied Artists
3099:Walter Brennan
3089:John Steinbeck
3069:
3066:
3052:
3046:
3009:North Carolina
2989:
2983:
2960:Central Valley
2928:
2922:
2784:Edward Carrere
2753:'s 1938 novel
2714:
2711:
2676:George Stevens
2664:Dorothy Lamour
2621:
2611:
2558:D. W. Griffith
2553:
2518:arbitration.
2495:Jennifer Jones
2467:
2460:
2280:The script by
2120:Clarence Brown
2047:
2044:
2016:Ernst Lubitsch
1996:
1993:
1935:Fred MacMurray
1878:Randolph Scott
1847:Ernst Lubitsch
1824:
1821:
1742:Francis Marion
1693:Samuel Goldwyn
1662:
1659:
1629:The Big Parade
1604:Miriam Hopkins
1571:
1568:
1562:shortly after
1556:Elizabeth Hill
1533:filmed in the
1531:David Selznick
1516:
1510:
1482:Francis Marion
1448:Hemingwayesque
1417:
1407:
1381:D. W. Griffith
1335:
1329:
1286:
1283:
1224:Gloria Swanson
1210:, veterans of
1208:Dell Henderson
1204:Marie Dressler
1180:Gloria Swanson
1177:
1176:
1167:
1166:
1158:
1157:
1156:
1155:
1154:
1138:
1135:
1111:
1105:
1045:Westfront 1918
1032:The Big Parade
1027:The Big Parade
1013:Charles Higham
1001:The Big Parade
996:
992:The Big Parade
983:
980:The Big Parade
976:
972:The Big Parade
953:Aileen Pringle
934:
931:
889:
886:
884:
881:
827:Louis B. Mayer
825:Film producer
822:
815:
804:Jascha Heifetz
792:Woman, Wake Up
788:Gloria Swanson
754:Thomas H. Ince
627:First National
614:
611:
602:Poor Relations
596:The Other Half
562:
559:
544:
541:
515:Charles Rosher
506:
503:
483:
480:
447:
444:
362:
359:
328:Jennifer Jones
277:The Big Parade
234:
233:
230:
226:
225:
213:
209:
206:Elizabeth Hill
204:
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201:
184:
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174:
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154:
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96:
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89:
87:(aged 88)
81:
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70:
57:
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39:
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35:
26:
9:
6:
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11899:
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11895:
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11877:
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11871:
11868:
11865:
11864:Paris Barclay
11862:
11859:
11856:
11853:
11852:Michael Apted
11850:
11847:
11844:
11841:
11838:
11835:
11834:Gene Reynolds
11832:
11829:
11826:
11823:
11822:Gilbert Cates
11820:
11817:
11814:
11811:
11808:
11805:
11802:
11799:
11796:
11793:
11790:
11787:
11786:George Sidney
11784:
11781:
11778:
11775:
11774:George Sidney
11772:
11769:
11766:
11763:
11760:
11757:
11756:John Cromwell
11754:
11751:
11750:Mark Sandrich
11748:
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11639:
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11633:
11630:
11627:
11624:
11623:James Schamus
11621:
11618:
11615:
11612:
11609:
11606:
11603:
11600:
11599:Werner Herzog
11597:
11594:
11593:Tilda Swinton
11591:
11588:
11585:
11582:
11581:Paul Schrader
11579:
11576:
11573:
11570:
11567:
11564:
11561:
11558:
11555:
11552:
11549:
11546:
11545:Bill Mechanic
11543:
11542:
11540:
11536:
11529:
11526:
11523:
11522:Ángela Molina
11520:
11517:
11514:
11511:
11508:
11505:
11502:
11499:
11496:
11493:
11492:Jeremy Thomas
11490:
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11460:
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11445:
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11433:
11430:
11427:
11426:Jeanne Moreau
11424:
11421:
11420:Joan Fontaine
11418:
11415:
11412:
11409:
11408:Ingrid Thulin
11406:
11403:
11400:
11397:
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11382:
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11375:
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11365:
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11349:Eleanor Perry
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11197:
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11187:
11183:
11180:
11177:
11176:Paul Schrader
11173:
11170:
11167:
11163:
11160:
11157:
11156:Tilda Swinton
11153:
11150:
11147:
11146:Julie Andrews
11143:
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11133:
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11123:
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11113:
11110:
11107:
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11101:
11097:
11094:
11091:
11088:
11085:
11082:
11079:
11076:
11073:
11070:
11067:
11066:John Lasseter
11064:
11061:
11058:
11055:
11052:
11049:
11046:
11043:
11039:
11036:
11033:
11032:Stanley Donen
11029:
11026:
11023:
11019:
11016:
11013:
11010:
11007:
11004:
11003:
11001:
10997:
10990:
10987:
10984:
10981:
10978:
10977:Andrzej Wajda
10974:
10970:
10969:Warren Beatty
10967:
10964:
10960:
10956:
10953:
10950:
10946:
10942:
10938:
10937:Robert Altman
10935:
10932:
10928:
10927:Alberto Sordi
10924:
10920:
10919:Alain Resnais
10916:
10912:
10908:
10904:
10901:
10898:
10894:
10890:
10887:
10884:
10880:
10876:
10872:
10869:
10866:
10862:
10861:Jeanne Moreau
10858:
10855:
10852:
10848:
10845:
10842:
10838:
10837:Miklós Jancsó
10835:
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10609:
10606:
10603:
10600:
10597:
10594:
10591:
10588:
10585:
10582:
10579:
10578:Robert Altman
10576:
10573:
10570:
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10507:
10503:
10500:
10497:
10494:
10491:
10488:
10485:
10484:William Wyler
10482:
10479:
10478:Frank Borzage
10476:
10473:
10470:
10467:
10464:
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10458:
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10378:
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10371:
10367:
10364:
10361:
10357:
10353:
10350:
10347:
10343:
10339:
10336:
10333:
10329:
10328:Lalo Schifrin
10325:
10322:
10319:
10315:
10311:
10307:
10304:
10301:
10297:
10293:
10289:
10286:
10283:
10282:Gena Rowlands
10279:
10276:
10273:
10269:
10265:
10262:
10259:
10255:
10251:
10248:
10245:
10241:
10237:
10234:
10231:
10227:
10224:
10221:
10217:
10213:
10210:
10207:
10206:Gordon Willis
10203:
10199:
10198:Lauren Bacall
10196:
10193:
10190:
10187:
10184:
10181:
10180:Robert Altman
10178:
10175:
10172:
10169:
10168:Blake Edwards
10166:
10163:
10162:Peter O'Toole
10160:
10157:
10153:
10150:
10149:
10147:
10143:
10136:
10135:Ernest Lehman
10132:
10129:
10126:
10125:Andrzej Wajda
10123:
10120:
10117:
10114:
10113:Stanley Donen
10111:
10108:
10105:
10102:
10098:
10095:
10092:
10089:
10086:
10083:
10080:
10077:
10074:
10071:
10068:
10064:
10061:
10058:
10055:
10052:
10048:
10045:
10042:
10041:Ralph Bellamy
10039:
10036:
10032:
10029:
10026:
10022:
10021:James Stewart
10019:
10016:
10013:
10010:
10009:Mickey Rooney
10007:
10004:
10001:
9998:
9995:
9992:
9991:Alec Guinness
9988:
9985:
9981:
9977:
9973:
9970:
9967:
9964:
9963:
9961:
9957:
9950:
9949:Mary Pickford
9947:
9944:
9940:
9937:
9934:
9930:
9927:
9924:
9920:
9917:
9914:
9911:
9907:
9904:
9901:
9898:
9895:
9891:
9890:John Chambers
9888:
9885:
9882:
9879:
9875:
9874:Yakima Canutt
9872:
9869:
9866:
9863:
9860:
9857:
9853:
9850:
9847:
9843:
9839:
9836:
9833:
9832:Lee de Forest
9829:
9828:Buster Keaton
9826:
9823:
9820:
9817:
9813:
9809:
9805:
9802:
9799:
9796:
9793:
9792:
9788:
9785:
9784:
9779:
9775:
9771:
9767:
9763:
9760:
9757:
9753:
9749:
9745:
9742:
9739:
9738:
9733:
9729:
9725:
9721:
9718:
9715:
9714:
9709:
9706:
9705:
9703:
9699:
9692:
9691:
9686:
9685:George Murphy
9682:
9679:
9676:
9675:
9670:
9666:
9662:
9661:Jean Hersholt
9659:
9656:
9652:
9648:
9647:
9642:
9641:Walter Wanger
9639:
9636:
9635:
9630:
9629:
9624:
9620:
9616:
9612:
9608:
9607:James Baskett
9605:
9602:
9598:
9594:
9590:
9587:
9584:
9580:
9579:
9574:
9573:Walter Wanger
9570:
9566:
9563:
9559:
9556:
9553:
9550:
9547:
9543:
9539:
9538:Charles Boyer
9536:
9533:
9529:
9525:
9521:
9517:
9514:
9511:
9507:
9504:
9501:
9497:
9493:
9489:
9485:
9484:Jean Hersholt
9481:
9477:
9473:
9469:
9466:
9463:
9459:
9455:
9451:
9447:
9443:
9439:
9435:
9431:
9430:Mickey Rooney
9427:
9426:Deanna Durbin
9423:
9419:
9416:
9413:
9409:
9405:
9401:
9398:
9395:
9394:Harold Rosson
9391:
9387:
9386:
9382:
9379:
9376:
9373:
9370:
9367:
9364:
9361:
9357:
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9317:
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9313:
9307:
9300:
9287:
9286:
9282:
9279:
9278:
9274:
9271:
9270:
9266:
9263:
9262:
9261:War and Peace
9258:
9255:
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9159:
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9146:
9143:
9142:
9138:
9135:
9134:
9133:Stella Dallas
9130:
9127:
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9119:
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9110:
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9082:
9079:
9078:
9074:
9071:
9070:
9066:
9063:
9062:
9058:
9055:
9054:
9053:Billy the Kid
9050:
9047:
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9039:
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9034:
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8986:
8983:
8982:
8978:
8975:
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8970:
8967:
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8962:
8959:
8958:
8957:Wine of Youth
8954:
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8946:
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8906:
8903:
8902:
8898:
8895:
8894:
8890:
8887:
8886:
8882:
8879:
8878:
8877:The Sky Pilot
8874:
8871:
8870:
8866:
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8815:
8814:
8810:
8807:
8806:
8802:
8799:
8798:
8794:
8791:
8790:
8789:Bud's Recruit
8786:
8783:
8782:
8778:
8775:
8774:
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8761:
8758:
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11617:Wong Kar-wai
11587:Costa-Gavras
11538:2001–present
11516:Ben Kingsley
11498:Lia van Leer
11390:Senta Berger
11361:Rodolfo Kuhn
11310:John Gillett
11304:Anthony Mann
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11280:Harold Lloyd
11259:Marcel Carné
11060:Ermanno Olmi
10999:2001–present
10973:Sophia Loren
10931:Monica Vitti
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10779:Satyajit Ray
10759:George Cukor
10741:Billy Wilder
10723:Marcel Carné
10713:Orson Welles
10644:Ridley Scott
10638:Miloš Forman
10620:Mike Nichols
10572:Sidney Lumet
10536:Billy Wilder
10530:Orson Welles
10512:George Cukor
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10370:Diane Warren
10366:Euzhan Palcy
10332:Cicely Tyson
10310:Owen Roizman
10254:Steve Martin
10202:Roger Corman
10174:Sidney Lumet
10145:2001–present
10131:Jack Cardiff
10107:Michael Kidd
10097:Kirk Douglas
10085:Deborah Kerr
10073:Satyajit Ray
10063:Sophia Loren
9989:Hal Elias /
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9972:Walter Lantz
9939:Howard Hawks
9933:Groucho Marx
9910:Orson Welles
9906:Lillian Gish
9884:Arthur Freed
9846:Hayley Mills
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9472:Judy Garland
9462:Harry Warner
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5384:Larson, Erik
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5299:. Retrieved
5295:the original
5290:
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5266:berlinale.de
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85:(1982-11-01)
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11903:1982 deaths
11898:1894 births
11798:Robert Wise
11780:Frank Capra
11738:Frank Capra
11557:Atom Egoyan
11486:Frank Beyer
11438:Jean Marais
11432:Liv Ullmann
11402:Jörn Donner
11367:Sylvia Syms
11286:James Quinn
11268:Frank Capra
11048:David Lynch
11022:Omar Sharif
11006:Éric Rohmer
10983:Jerry Lewis
10963:Alida Valli
10903:Woody Allen
10825:Joris Ivens
10755:Frank Capra
10751:Luis Buñuel
10707:Luis Buñuel
10590:Woody Allen
10584:James Ivory
10554:Robert Wise
10524:John Huston
10466:Frank Capra
10360:Liv Ullmann
10338:David Lynch
10324:Marvin Levy
10318:Agnès Varda
10288:Jackie Chan
10240:Hal Needham
10220:Eli Wallach
10101:Chuck Jones
10031:Paul Newman
9997:Henry Fonda
9943:Jean Renoir
9842:Stan Laurel
9838:Gary Cooper
9770:Greta Garbo
9651:Sid Grauman
9542:Noël Coward
9516:Walt Disney
9492:Ralph Block
9422:Walt Disney
9366:Walt Disney
9237:Ruby Gentry
9141:The Citadel
9045:Not So Dumb
9029:Show People
8981:Proud Flesh
8171:January 20,
7907:Rob Nixon,
7371:Cannery Row
7199:perfectly."
6903:filmmaking.
6589:Reilly, TMC
6576:The Citadel
6572:The Citadel
6551:Reilly, TMC
6534:(1935) and
6526:(1940) and
6316:Miller, TMC
6145:Miller, TMC
6099:(1931) and
6046:potential."
5880:acclaim..."
5640:homestead."
5549:Scientology
5271:February 1,
4954:The Citadel
4845:Nominations
4720:The Citadel
4608:Frank Capra
4602:The Citadel
4572:Grand Hotel
4424:(1954) (TV)
4413:Ruby Gentry
4310:The Citadel
4207:Not So Dumb
4191:Show People
4135:Proud Flesh
3901:Filmography
3689:, in 1972.
3623:Bruno Frank
3610:Brother Jon
3568:Sid Grauman
3537:(1925) and
3493:Technicolor
3415:nightingale
3344:Yul Brynner
3236:Henry Fonda
3234:(played by
3209:Leo Tolstoy
3182:Leo Tolstoy
3174:John Baxter
3033:Ruby Gentry
3028:Ruby Gentry
3020:Ruby Gentry
2994:Ruby Gentry
2986:Ruby Gentry
2979:Ruby Gentry
2943:Mark Robson
2941:(1950) and
2938:The Lawless
2876:Max Steiner
2854:Jack Warner
2807:Bette Davis
2764:Objectivism
2729:(1949) and
2672:John Huston
2628:(1944) and
2566:(1919) and
2483:Niven Busch
2371:Axis powers
2363:Clark Gable
2355:Greta Garbo
2351:Hedy Lamarr
2325:Technicolor
2273:during the
2261:: Based on
2245:Technicolor
2226:(1939) and
2214:Indian Wars
2151:The Citadel
2146:The Citadel
2140:The Citadel
2112:(1944) and
2078:(1941) and
2057:The Citadel
2040:Frank Capra
1989:Sam Houston
1931:Gary Cooper
1893:Stark Young
1832:(1935) and
1738:Kay Francis
1579:(1933) and
1543:Joel McCrea
1537:. Starring
1438:Pat Garrett
1322:Lowe's Inc.
1299:James Joyce
1270:Not So Dumb
1256:Show People
1241:Show People
1150:"screwball"
1093:Show People
1040:G. W. Pabst
1005:World War I
964:Proud Flesh
962:(1924) and
949:Elinor Glyn
727:John Bowers
684:John Baxter
677:Fred Turner
463:nickelodeon
397:everything.
282:sound films
107:Occupations
11892:Categories
11816:Jud Taylor
11732:King Vidor
11647:Tom Tykwer
11611:Mike Leigh
11298:Wendy Toye
11292:King Vidor
11196:Peter Weir
11122:Jane Fonda
11054:Tim Burton
10783:King Vidor
10548:Elia Kazan
10502:David Lean
10460:King Vidor
10454:Henry King
10384:Mel Brooks
10374:Peter Weir
10356:Elaine May
10258:Piero Tosi
10230:Dick Smith
10119:Elia Kazan
10035:Alex North
9980:King Vidor
9900:Cary Grant
9894:Onna White
9766:Danny Kaye
9756:Pete Smith
9708:Gene Kelly
9552:George Pal
9438:Jan Domela
9037:Hallelujah
8753:King Vidor
8709:King Vidor
8678:King Vidor
8673:Wikisource
8669:King Vidor
8657:King Vidor
8247:King Vidor
8223:References
8110:January 3,
7268:suggests."
7152:believes."
7141:ideology."
6686:John Wayne
6193:"company".
6183:spirit..."
6115:New Mexico
6043:Hallelujah
5205:believes."
4886:Hallelujah
4823:Nominated
4803:Nominated
4774:Nominated
4754:Nominated
4725:Nominated
4668:Performer
4531:Hallelujah
4517:7th Heaven
4199:Hallelujah
3878:San Simeon
3760:Republican
3733:in 1934.
3018:champions
2956:Korean War
2908:Ruth Roman
2874:Vidor and
2821:: A lurid
2693:television
2608:bullseye."
2271:irregulars
1891:(1934) by
1887:The novel
1851:"Southern"
1810:Henry King
1722:Depression
1706:Elmer Rice
1402:Hallelujah
1373:spirituals
1352:Hallelujah
1344:Hallelujah
1332:Hallelujah
1307:Hallelujah
1264:Hallelujah
1236:Mae Murray
1232:Pola Negri
817:Metro and
585:Zasu Pitts
64:1894-02-08
36:King Vidor
11840:Jack Shea
11551:Mira Nair
11510:Jack Lang
11377:1976–2000
11252:1956–1975
11012:Dino Risi
10897:Al Pacino
10893:Ken Loach
10719:John Ford
10700:1969–2000
10650:Spike Lee
10448:John Ford
10342:Wes Studi
10278:Spike Lee
10067:Myrna Loy
10015:Hal Roach
9959:1976–2000
9701:1951–1975
9634:Shoeshine
9349:1928–1950
9165:Comrade X
9069:The Champ
9021:The Patsy
9013:The Crowd
8997:La Bohème
8949:Happiness
8821:I'm a Man
8689:from the
8401:The Crowd
8390:The Crowd
8322:Comrade X
8205:Berlinale
7913:, TCM.com
7701:(1959)...
7601:Mike Todd
7507:ecology."
7328:film noir
7315:style..."
7219:The Crowd
7188:film noir
6992:different
6961:film noir
6955:film noir
6834:swerved."
6810:charm..."
6797:founded."
6524:Comrade X
6241:subjects.
6213:The Crowd
6107:Al Capone
6085:piece to
6080:Hays Code
6030:original)
6024:Uncle Tom
5885:The Crowd
5621:receded".
5152:Comrade X
5088:. At the
4995:Comrade X
4910:The Champ
4862:The Crowd
4700:The Champ
4561:The Champ
4506:The Crowd
4337:Comrade X
4235:The Champ
4175:The Patsy
4167:The Crowd
4151:La Bohème
4103:Happiness
3975:I'm a Man
3791:Marriages
3724:The Patsy
3719:Inceville
3667:The Crowd
3657:The Actor
3628:Cervantes
3594:The Crowd
3543:(1928)).
3540:The Crowd
3483:in which
3111:Ben Hecht
3085:Kim Novak
3024:film noir
2900:film noir
2792:film noir
2780:Manhattan
2652:baby boom
2549:film noir
2485:'s novel
2359:Ninotchka
2347:Comrade X
2341:Comrade X
2290:film noir
2069:Comrade X
2036:Bolshevik
1966:B western
1874:secession
1779:Old World
1754:Anna Sten
1644:The Crowd
1612:Dust Bowl
1522:The Champ
1477:The Champ
1415:The Champ
1377:Uncle Tom
1359:as Zeke,
1318:Movietone
1314:Vitaphone
1267:(1929)):
1216:slapstick
1199:The Patsy
1190:The Patsy
1131:The Crowd
1127:The Crowd
1117:The Crowd
1108:The Crowd
1076:La Bohème
1065:La Bohème
902:La Bohème
864:Pollyanna
860:Happiness
633:, dubbed
533:Universal
523:Inceville
293:Comrade X
130:1913–1980
11072:John Woo
9868:Bob Hope
9724:Bob Hope
9713:Rashomon
9558:Bob Hope
9506:Bob Hope
8965:His Hour
8585:Archived
8567:Archived
8550:Archived
8521:. 2010.
8345:. 2016.
7785:spirit."
7758:effort."
7642:reason."
7273:acting."
7028:tale..."
6236:project.
6102:Scarface
6088:Scarface
5948:Pangborn
5922:persona"
5901:office."
5386:(1999).
5186:forces."
5176:nature."
5137:(1930)."
4590:Bad Girl
4119:His Hour
3681:and the
3669:(1928).
3600:Ann Head
3564:Conquest
3545:Conquest
3529:Colorado
3517:Conquest
3508:founder
3289:(1967).
3283:Cold War
3142:(1955).
2981:(1952).
2951:(1949).
2920:(1952).
2866:La Garce
2813:(1949).
2751:Ayn Rand
2723:(1949),
2701:Ayn Rand
2596:(1946).
2458:(1946).
2414:(1944).
2385:(1941).
2251:(1940).
2210:B movies
2201:singing
2090:(1939).
2072:(1940),
2066:(1940),
2060:(1938),
1980:(1946).
1927:B movies
1770:(1935).
1758:Dietrich
1682:(1935),
1676:(1932),
1670:(1931),
1646:(1928).
1587:New Deal
1389:(1915).
1019:(1973).
968:Jazz Age
944:His Hour
715:Vidor's
478:(1913).
459:Maryland
296:(1940),
290:(1940),
229:Children
116:producer
11528:Gong Li
11152:Ann Hui
8276:Comrade
7977:(1986).
7713:Vidor."
7624:Vidor."
7563:Ben Hur
7549:Ben Hur
7293:years."
6893:ahead."
5431:own..."
4904:1931–32
4880:1929–30
4856:1927–28
4689:1931–32
4674:Result
4550:1931–32
4525:1929–30
4495:1927–28
4489:Result
3549:Jungian
3409:terms:
3313:, with
3184:), and
3041:barrage
2968:B Movie
2880:Chicago
2267:Abenaki
2236:(1940)
2228:DeMille
2186:sings "
1838:(1936)
1701:(1931)
1688:(1937)
1616:Midwest
1491:The Kid
926:Georgia
735:flapper
663:Variety
468:Houston
403:cyclone
386:Esquire
222:
214:
210:
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151:
135:Spouses
11878:(2021)
11872:(2017)
11866:(2013)
11860:(2009)
11854:(2003)
11848:(2002)
11842:(1997)
11836:(1993)
11830:(1987)
11824:(1983)
11818:(1981)
11812:(1979)
11806:(1975)
11800:(1971)
11794:(1967)
11788:(1961)
11782:(1960)
11776:(1951)
11770:(1950)
11764:(1948)
11758:(1944)
11752:(1943)
11746:(1941)
11740:(1939)
11734:(1936)
11679:(2024)
11673:(2023)
11667:(2022)
11661:(2020)
11655:(2019)
11649:(2018)
11643:(2017)
11637:(2016)
11631:(2015)
11625:(2014)
11619:(2013)
11613:(2012)
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11595:(2009)
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8776:(1913)
8768:(1913)
8694:Online
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8254:Cynara
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7788:said."
7732:film."
7637:Fonda.
7627:part."
7588:novel.
7369:plant…
6762:film."
6732:Weimar
6143:Scene.
6133:myth."
5650:1924."
5499:Vidor.
5462:In Tow
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4454:(1964)
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3866:(1921)
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3199:(1956)
3149:, 1955
2862:Gorgon
2846:screen
2466:(1946)
2176:Kansas
2095:auteur
1861:epic.
1729:Cynara
1673:Cynara
1496:shorts
1334:(1929)
982:: 1925
821:(1922)
599:, and
537:shorts
476:In Tow
334:, and
269:auteur
93:, U.S.
74:, U.S.
7565:novel
7407:film.
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6612:1930s
5496:Arto.
5100:Notes
5056:1956
5034:1949
5012:1946
4971:1940
4949:1938
4927:1936
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4808:1946
4788:1937
4759:1946
4739:1937
4710:1938
4671:Film
4665:Year
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