Frank Borzage
Directing
Born April 23, 1894 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), Bad Girl (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), Man's Castle (1933), History Is Made at Night (1937), The Mortal Storm (1940) and Moonrise (1948). In 1912 Borzage found employment as an actor in Hollywood; he continued to work as an actor until 1917. His directorial debut came in 1915 with the film The Pitch o' Chance. He was a successful director throughout the 1920s, but reached his peak in the late silent and early sound era. Absorbing visual influences from the German director F.W. Murnau, who was also resident at Fox at this time, Borzage developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including 7th Heaven (1927), for which he won the first Academy Award for Best Director, Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929). He won a second Oscar for 1931's Bad Girl. He directed 14 films between 1917 and 1919 alone. His greatest success in the silent era was with Humoresque, a box office winner starring Vera Gordon. Borzage's trademark was intense identification with the feelings of young lovers in the face of adversity, with love in his films triumphing over such trials as World War I (7th Heaven and A Farewell to Arms), disability (Lucky Star), the Depression (Man's Castle), a thinly disguised version of the Titanic disaster in History Is Made at Night, and the rise of Nazism, a theme which Borzage had virtually to himself among Hollywood filmmakers from Little Man, What Now? (1933) to Three Comrades (1938) and The Mortal Storm (1940). His work took a spiritual turn in such films as Green Light (1937), Strange Cargo (1940) and The Big Fisherman (1959). Of his later work only the film noir Moonrise (1948) has enjoyed much critical acclaim. After 1948, Borzage's output was sporadic. In 1955 and 1957, he was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Frank Borzage died of cancer in 1962, aged 68.
Directed (105)
The Big Fisherman
1959
China Doll
1958
The Day I Met Caruso
1956
A Ticket for Thaddeus
1956
Day is Done
1955
Moonrise
1948
That's My Man
1947
Magnificent Doll
1946
I've Always Loved You
1946
The Spanish Main
1945
Till We Meet Again
1944
His Butler's Sister
1943
Stage Door Canteen
1943
Seven Sweethearts
1942
The Vanishing Virginian
1942
Smilin' Through
1941
Flight Command
1940
The Mortal Storm
1940
Strange Cargo
1940
Disputed Passage
1939
The Shining Hour
1938
Three Comrades
1938
Mannequin
1938
Big City
1937
History Is Made at Night
1937
Green Light
1937
Hearts Divided
1936
Desire
1936
Shipmates Forever
1935
Stranded
1935
Living on Velvet
1935
Flirtation Walk
1934
Little Man, What Now?
1934
No Greater Glory
1934
Man's Castle
1933
Secrets
1933
A Farewell to Arms
1932
Young America
1932
After Tomorrow
1932
Bad Girl
1931
Young as You Feel
1931
Doctors' Wives
1931
Liliom
1930
Song o' My Heart
1930
The River
1929
They Had to See Paris
1929
Lucky Star
1929
Street Angel
1928
7th Heaven
1927
Marriage License?
1926
Early to Wed
1926
The Dixie Merchant
1926
The First Year
1926
Wages for Wives
1925
Lazybones
1925
The Circle
1925
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1925
The Lady
1925
Secrets
1924
The Age of Desire
1923
Children of Dust
1923
The Nth Commandment
1923
The Pride of Palomar
1922
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
The Good Provider
1922
Billy Jim
1922
Back Pay
1922
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
1921
The Duke of Chimney Butte
1921
Humoresque
1920
Prudence on Broadway
1919
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
1919
Toton
1919
The Atom
1918
The Ghost Flower
1918
Who Is to Blame?
1918
An Honest Man
1918
Society for Sale
1918
Innocent's Progress
1918
The Shoes That Danced
1918
The Curse of Iku
1918
The Gun Woman
1918
Until They Get Me
1917
Flying Colors
1917
Immediate Lee
1916
Land O' Lizards
1916
Matchin' Jim
1916
The Forgotten Prayer
1916
Nell Dale's Men Folks
1916
The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
1916
That Gal of Burke's
1916
Nugget Jim's Pardner
1916
The Quicksands of Deceit
1916
The Demon of Fear
1916
The Pilgrim
1916
Jack
1916
Unlucky Luke
1916
A Flickering Light
1916
Two Bits
1916
The Code of Honor
1916
The Silken Spider
1916
Life's Harmony
1916
The Pitch o' Chance
1915
The Pride and the Man
Dollars of Dross
Acting (64)
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
Jeanne Eagels
1957
The Atom
1918
The Curse of Iku
1918
Fear Not
1917
Wee Lady Betty
1917
A Mormon Maid
1917
A School for Husbands
1917
Immediate Lee
1916
Land O' Lizards
1916
Matchin' Jim
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
The Forgotten Prayer
1916
Nell Dale's Men Folks
1916
The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
1916
That Gal of Burke's
1916
Nugget Jim's Pardner
1916
The Demon of Fear
1916
The Pilgrim
1916
Jack
1916
Unlucky Luke
1916
Realization
1916
A Flickering Light
1916
Two Bits
1916
The Code of Honor
1916
The Cactus Blossom
1915
The Pitch o' Chance
1915
The Clean-Up
1915
Aloha Oe
1915
Knight of the Trail
1915
The Hammer
1915
The Secret of Lost River
1915
The Tavern Keeper's Son
1915
