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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.

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

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