Frank Borzage
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Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director
and actor.
, (then Austria-Hungary
, now Italy) in 1859. As a stonemason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland
; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg (b. 1860, Ricken - d. 1947, Los Angeles
), where she worked in a silk factory. Borzaga emigrated to Hazleton, Pennsylvania
in the early 1880s where he worked as a coal miner. He brought his fiancee to the United States and they married in Hazleton in 1883.
Their first child, Henry, was born in 1885. The Borzaga family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah
, where Frank Borzage was born, and the family remained based until 1919. The couple had fourteen children, eight of whom survived childhood: Henry (1885–1971), Mary Emma (1886-1906), Bill (1892–1973), Frank, Daniel (1896–1975, a performer and member of the John Ford Stock Company
), Lew (1898–1974), Dolly (1901–2002) and Sue (1905–1998). Luigi Borzaga died in Los Angeles
in a car accident in 1934; his wife Maria (Frank's mother) died of cancer in 1947.
In 1912 Frank Borzage found employment as an actor in Hollywood, and remained in the profession until 1917. His directorial debut came in 1915 with his film, The Pitch o' Chance.
On June 7, 1916, Borzage married vaudeville and film actress Lorena "Rena" Rogers in Los Angeles and remained married until 1941. In 1945, he married Edna Stillwell Skelton, the ex-wife of comedian Red Skelton
; they were divorced in 1949. Borzage died of cancer in 1962, aged 68, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
. For his contributions to film, Borzage was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
.
and Charles Farrell
, including Seventh Heaven (1927), for which he won the first Academy Award for Directing
, Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star
(1929). (He won a second Oscar for 1931's Bad Girl.)
Borzage's trademark was intense identification with the feelings of young lovers in the face of adversity, love in his films triumphing over such trials as World War I (Seventh Heaven and A Farewell to Arms
(1932)), disability (Lucky Star
), the Depression (Man's Castle
(1933)), a thinly-disguised version of the Titanic disaster in History Is Made at Night
(1937), 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 after 1940 took a turn into religiosity in such films as Strange Cargo
(1940) and The Big Fisherman
(1959). However his once extremely high reputation fell as his earlier films became hard to see; of his later work only the film noir
Moonrise
(1948) has enjoyed much critical acclaim.
After 1948, his output was sporadic, and his last film work was sequences in Edgar G. Ulmer's 1962 film L'Atlantide (Journey Beneath The Desert), for which he was uncredited.
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and actor.
Biography
Frank Borzage's father, Luigi Borzaga, was born in RonzoneRonzone
Ronzone is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 40 km north of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 369 and an area of 5.3 km²....
, (then Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
, now Italy) in 1859. As a stonemason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg (b. 1860, Ricken - d. 1947, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
), where she worked in a silk factory. Borzaga emigrated to Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,340 at the 2010 census, an increase of 8.6% from the 2000 census count .-Greater Hazleton:...
in the early 1880s where he worked as a coal miner. He brought his fiancee to the United States and they married in Hazleton in 1883.
Their first child, Henry, was born in 1885. The Borzaga family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
, where Frank Borzage was born, and the family remained based until 1919. The couple had fourteen children, eight of whom survived childhood: Henry (1885–1971), Mary Emma (1886-1906), Bill (1892–1973), Frank, Daniel (1896–1975, a performer and member of the John Ford Stock Company
John Ford Stock Company
The John Ford Stock Company is the name given to the large collection of actors used repeatedly in the films of American director John Ford. Most famous among these was John Wayne, who appeared in twenty-four films and three television episodes for the director...
), Lew (1898–1974), Dolly (1901–2002) and Sue (1905–1998). Luigi Borzaga died in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
in a car accident in 1934; his wife Maria (Frank's mother) died of cancer in 1947.
In 1912 Frank Borzage found employment as an actor in Hollywood, and remained in the profession until 1917. His directorial debut came in 1915 with his film, The Pitch o' Chance.
On June 7, 1916, Borzage married vaudeville and film actress Lorena "Rena" Rogers in Los Angeles and remained married until 1941. In 1945, he married Edna Stillwell Skelton, the ex-wife of comedian Red Skelton
Red Skelton
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American comedian who is best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing...
; they were divorced in 1949. Borzage died of cancer in 1962, aged 68, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
Glendale, California
Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city population is 191,719, down from 194,973 at the 2000 census. making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 22nd largest city in the state of California...
. For his contributions to film, Borzage was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
.
Career
Borzage 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, he developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet GaynorJanet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...
and Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor...
, including Seventh Heaven (1927), for which he won the first Academy Award for Directing
Academy Award for Directing
The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing , usually known as the Best Director Oscar, is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to directors working in the motion picture industry...
, Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star
Lucky Star (film)
Lucky Star is a romantic drama film starring Janet Gaynor and directed by Frank Borzage. The plot involves the impact of World War I upon a farm girl and a returning soldier . The movie was produced by William Fox with cinematography by Chester A. Lyons and William Cooper Smith, and the...
(1929). (He won a second Oscar for 1931's Bad Girl.)
Borzage's trademark was intense identification with the feelings of young lovers in the face of adversity, love in his films triumphing over such trials as World War I (Seventh Heaven and A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)
A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Oliver H.P...
(1932)), disability (Lucky Star
Lucky Star (film)
Lucky Star is a romantic drama film starring Janet Gaynor and directed by Frank Borzage. The plot involves the impact of World War I upon a farm girl and a returning soldier . The movie was produced by William Fox with cinematography by Chester A. Lyons and William Cooper Smith, and the...
), the Depression (Man's Castle
Man's Castle
Man's Castle is 1933 film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young.-Plot:Well-dressed Bill takes pity on Trina , a starving young woman he meets in a city park and treats her to a dinner in a fancy restaurant. After she is finished, he informs the manager he has no...
(1933)), a thinly-disguised version of the Titanic disaster in History Is Made at Night
History Is Made at Night (1937 film)
History Is Made at Night is a 1937 romantic drama with elements of comedy and spectacle.It deals with a love triangle among a possessive shipping magnate, his beautiful wife, and a French headwaiter, with a spectacular ocean liner as a backdrop....
(1937), and the rise of Nazism, a theme which Borzage had virtually to himself among Hollywood filmmakers from Little Man, What Now?
Little Man, What Now? (film)
Little Man, What Now? is a 1934 drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Margaret Sullavan. It is based on the novel of the same name.-Cast:* Margaret Sullavan - Emma 'Lammchen' Pinneberg* Douglass Montgomery - Hans Pinneberg...
(1933) to Three Comrades
Three Comrades (film)
Three Comrades 1938 is a drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. The screenplay is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., and was adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque...
(1938) and The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm is a drama film from MGM starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, and directed by Frank Borzage.-Production background:...
(1940).
His work after 1940 took a turn into religiosity in such films as Strange Cargo
Strange Cargo (1940 film)
Strange Cargo is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony. The screenplay by Lawrence Hazard was based upon the 1936 novel, Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep, by Richard Sale. The film was...
(1940) and The Big Fisherman
The Big Fisherman
The Big Fisherman is a 1959 American film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas...
(1959). However his once extremely high reputation fell as his earlier films became hard to see; of his later work only the film noir
Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...
Moonrise
Moonrise (film)
-Plot:Dane Clark plays Danny Hawkins, the son of a murderer who was hanged for his crimes. Haunted by his father's past, the young man is tormented by the young people of the small southern town in which he lives. Hawkins' only friend is Gilly Johnson , a girl who is quickly falling in love with...
(1948) has enjoyed much critical acclaim.
After 1948, his output was sporadic, and his last film work was sequences in Edgar G. Ulmer's 1962 film L'Atlantide (Journey Beneath The Desert), for which he was uncredited.
Filmography
- 1913 : The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
- 1913 : The Battle of GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg (1913 film)The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and Thomas H. Ince. The film is now considered to be lost, although some battlefield footage was used by Mack Sennett in his comedy Cohen Saves the Flag, which was shot on location alongside this production. However...
- 1914 : SamsonSamson (1914 film)Samson is a 1914 short drama film. Harold Lloyd has an uncredited role.-Cast:* J. Warren Kerrigan - Samson* George Periolat - Manoah, Samson's father* Lule Warrenton - Wife of Manoah* Kathleen Kerrigan - Delilah* Edith Bostwick - Zorah, Samson's wife...
- 1915 : The Pitch o' Chance
- 1916 : The Pride and the Man
- 1916 : Dollars of Dross
- 1916 : Life's Harmony
- 1916 : The Silken Spider
- 1916 : The Code of Honor
- 1916 : Two Bits
- 1916 : A Flickering Light
- 1916 : Unlucky Luke
- 1916 : Jack
- 1916 : The Pilgrim
- 1916 : The Demon of Fear
- 1916 : The Quicksands of Deceit
- 1916 : Nugget Jim's Pardner
- 1916 : That Gal of Burke's
- 1916 : The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
- 1916 : Nell Dale's Men Folks
- 1916 : The Forgotten Prayer
- 1916 : Matchin' Jim
- 1916 : Land o' Lizards
- 1916 : Immediate Lee
- 1917 : Flying Colors
- 1917 : Until They Get Me
- 1918 : The Gun Woman
- 1918 : The Curse of Iku
- 1918 : The Shoes That Danced
- 1918 : Innocent's Progress
- 1918 : Society for SaleSociety for SaleSociety for Sale is a 1918 silent drama film directed by Frank Borzage, starring William Desmond and Gloria Swanson.-Cast:* William Desmond - Honorable Billy* Gloria Swanson - Phylis Clyne* Herbert Prior - Lord Sheldon* Charles Dorian - Furnival...
- 1918 : An Honest Man
- 1918 : Who Is to Blame?
- 1918 : The Ghost Flower
- 1918 : The Atom
- 1919 : Toton the Apache
- 1919 : Whom the Gods Would Destroy
- 1919 : Prudence on Broadway
- 1920 : HumoresqueHumoresque (1920 film)Humoresque is a 1920 silent film drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and released by a special arrangement with Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Frank Borzage from a novel by Fannie Hurst and script or scenario by Frances Marion...
- 1921 : Get-Rich-Quick WallingfordGet-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921 film)Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford is a 1921 silent comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film's script was adapted by writer Luther Reed from the novel "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" by George Randolph Chester and George M. Cohan, which expanded in turn on a series of short stories by Chester...
- 1921 : The Duke of Chimney Butte
- 1922 : Back Pay
- 1922 : Billy Jim
- 1922 : The Good Provider
- 1922 : The Valley of Silent Men
- 1922 : The Pride of Palomar
- 1923 : The Nth Commandment
- 1923 : Children of the Dust
- 1923 : The Age of Desire
- 1924 : SecretsSecrets (1924 film)Secrets is a silent film directed by Frank Borzage. The film is based upon a 1872 opera called Don César de Bazan and was remade in 1933 with Mary Pickford in the leading role. Although the film was never released on video or DVD, copies still exist.-Plot:The films opens in present. 75-year-old...
- 1925 : The Lady
- 1925 : Daddy's Gone A-HuntingDaddy's Gone A-HuntingDaddy's Gone A-Hunting is a 1925 drama film directed by Frank Borzage based upon a play by Zoe Akins, with adaptation by Kenneth B. Clarke. The film brought together Vitagraph leading lady Alice Joyce and English actor Percy Marmont after his success with If Winter Comes. This is the only film...
- 1925 : The CircleThe Circle (1925 film)The Circle is a 1925 film directed by Frank Borzage. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis and Joan Crawford on an early role. It is written by Kenneth B. Clarke based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. The 1921 Broadway play had starred John Drew, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie...
- 1925 : Lazybones
- 1925 : Wages for Wives
- 1926 : The First Year
- 1926 : The Dixie Merchant
- 1926 : Early to Wed
- 1926 : Marriage License?
- 1927 : Seventh Heaven
- 1928 : Street Angel
- 1929 : Lucky Star
- 1929 : They Had to See ParisThey Had to See ParisThey Had to See Paris is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Will Rogers, Irene Rich and Marguerite Churchill. A wealthy American oil tycoon travels to Paris with his family at his wife's request, despite the fact he hates the French.Rogers starred in a similar film...
- 1929 : The RiverThe River (1929 film)The River is a 1929 drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. Much of the film has been lost. A reconstructed version, using still images and explanatory titlecards to bridge the missing scenes, was produced by the Munich Filmmuseum, in collaboration with...
- 1930 : Song o' My Heart
- 1930 : Liliom
- 1931 : Doctors' WivesDoctors' Wives (1931 film)Doctors' Wives is a 1931 romantic drama film made by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Frank Borzage. The film stars Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Maurine Dallas Watkins, based on a novel by Henry Lieferant and Sylvia Lieferant.-Cast:*Warner Baxter as Dr. Judson...
- 1931 : Young as You Feel
- 1931 : Bad Girl
- 1932 : After TomorrowAfter TomorrowAfter Tomorrow is 1932 film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell and William Collier Sr..-Cast:* Charles Farrell ... Peter Piper* Marian Nixon ... Sidney Taylor* Minna Gombell ... Else Taylor...
- 1932 : Young AmericaYoung America (1932 film)Young America was a film first adapted for the screen by Maurine Watkins from the play by Fred Ballard . William M. Conselman rewrote the screenplay and Maurine's name no longer appeared on the credits . The film was directed by Frank Borzage.-Cast:* Spencer Tracy .....
- 1932 : A Farewell to ArmsA Farewell to Arms (1932 film)A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Oliver H.P...
- 1933 : SecretsSecrets (film)Secrets is a 1933 Western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Mary Pickford in her last film role. The film is a remake of Secrets , a silent film starring Norma Talmadge....
- 1933 : Man's CastleMan's CastleMan's Castle is 1933 film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young.-Plot:Well-dressed Bill takes pity on Trina , a starving young woman he meets in a city park and treats her to a dinner in a fancy restaurant. After she is finished, he informs the manager he has no...
- 1934 : No Greater Glory
- 1934 : Little Man, What Now?Little Man, What Now? (film)Little Man, What Now? is a 1934 drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Margaret Sullavan. It is based on the novel of the same name.-Cast:* Margaret Sullavan - Emma 'Lammchen' Pinneberg* Douglass Montgomery - Hans Pinneberg...
- 1934 : Flirtation WalkFlirtation WalkFlirtation Walk is a 1934 romantic musical film written by Delmer Daves and Lou Edelman, and directed by Frank Borzage. It focuses on a soldier who falls in love with a general's daughter during the general's brief stop in Hawaii, but she leaves with her father for the Philippines before their...
- 1935 : Living on VelvetLiving on VelvetLiving on Velvet is a 1935 American film directed by Frank Borzage starring Kay Francis, Warren William and George Brent.-Cast:*Kay Francis ... Amy Prentiss Parker*Warren William ... Walter 'Gibraltar' Pritcham...
- 1935 : Stranded
- 1935 : Shipmates Forever
- 1936 : DesireDesire (1936 film)Desire is an American romantic drama film released in 1936 and directed by Frank Borzage. It was produced by Borzage and Ernst Lubitsch. The picture is a remake of the 1933 German film Die Schönen Tage von Aranjuez. The screenplay was written by Samuel Hoffenstein, Edwin Justus Mayer and Waldemar...
- 1936 : Hearts DividedHearts DividedHearts Divided is a 1936 musical film about the real-life marriage between American Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. It starred Marion Davies and Dick Powell as the couple...
- 1937 : Green Light
- 1937 : History Is Made at NightHistory Is Made at Night (1937 film)History Is Made at Night is a 1937 romantic drama with elements of comedy and spectacle.It deals with a love triangle among a possessive shipping magnate, his beautiful wife, and a French headwaiter, with a spectacular ocean liner as a backdrop....
- 1937 : Big CityBig City (1937 film)Big City is a 1937 drama film directed by Frank Borzage. The film was also released as Skyscraper Wilderness.-Plot:Joe Benton and his wife Anna are suspects of starting a taxi war. Although they are innocent, they are blamed for everything that has happened and the officials demand for Anna to be...
- 1937 : MannequinMannequin (1937 film)Mannequin is 1937 film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy and Alan Curtis. In the film, Crawford plays Jessie, a young working class woman who seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind...
- 1938 : Three ComradesThree Comrades (film)Three Comrades 1938 is a drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. The screenplay is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., and was adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque...
- 1938 : The Shining HourThe Shining HourThe Shining Hour is a 1938 MGM film, based on a 1934 play by Keith Winter. The film starred Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, and Fay Bainter.-Plot summary:...
- 1939 : Disputed PassageDisputed PassageDisputed Passage is a 1939 American film starring John Howard, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, Judith Barrett, and William Collier, Sr. Set in war-torn China, the film was described by the New York Times as a "lavish soap opera". The 87 minute-long film was based on the best-selling novel of the...
- 1940 : I Take This WomanI Take This Woman (1940 film)I Take This Woman is a 1940 drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr.-Cast:*Spencer Tracy as Dr. Karl Decker*Hedy Lamarr as Georgi Gragore Decker*Verree Teasdale as Madame "Cesca" Marcesca*Kent Taylor as Phil Mayberry...
- 1940 : Strange CargoStrange Cargo (1940 film)Strange Cargo is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony. The screenplay by Lawrence Hazard was based upon the 1936 novel, Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep, by Richard Sale. The film was...
- 1940 : The Mortal StormThe Mortal StormThe Mortal Storm is a drama film from MGM starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, and directed by Frank Borzage.-Production background:...
- 1940 : Flight CommandFlight CommandFlight Command is a 1940 film about a cocky U.S. Navy pilot who has problems with his new squadron and falls for the wife of his commander...
- 1941 : Billy the KidBilly the Kid (1941 film)Billy the Kid is a 1941 American color remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film features Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett renamed "Jim Sherwood" in the film. Directed by David Miller and based on the book by Walter Noble Burns, the cast...
- 1941 : Smilin' ThroughSmilin' Through (1941 film)Smilin' Through is a 1941 MGM musical film based on the 1919 play of the same name by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin.The film was a remake of a previous 1932 version by MGM and was the third and final film version of the play. It starred Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne and Ian Hunter...
- 1942 : The Vanishing Virginian
- 1942 : Seven Sweethearts
- 1943 : Stage Door CanteenStage Door CanteenStage Door Canteen is a musical film produced by Sol Lesser Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Frank Borzage and features many cameo appearances by celebrities, and the majority of the film is essentially a filmed concert although there is also a storyline to the...
- 1943 : His Butler's SisterHis Butler's SisterHis Butler's Sister is a 1943 comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording His Butler's Sister is a 1943 comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording His Butler's Sister is a 1943...
- 1944 : Till We Meet Again
- 1945 : The Spanish MainThe Spanish MainThe Spanish Main is an adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. It was RKO's first all-Technicolor film since Becky Sharp ten years before....
- 1946 : I've Always Loved You
- 1946 : Magnificent Doll
- 1947 : That's My Man
- 1948 : MoonriseMoonrise (film)-Plot:Dane Clark plays Danny Hawkins, the son of a murderer who was hanged for his crimes. Haunted by his father's past, the young man is tormented by the young people of the small southern town in which he lives. Hawkins' only friend is Gilly Johnson , a girl who is quickly falling in love with...
- 1958 : China DollChina Doll (film)China Doll is a 1958 romantic drama film set in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and starring Victor Mature and Li Hua Li.-Plot:...
- 1959 : The Big FishermanThe Big FishermanThe Big Fisherman is a 1959 American film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas...
- 1961 : L'Atlantide
Further reading
- Dumont, Hervé. Frank Borzage: the Life and Times of a Hollywood Romantic. McFarland, 2006.
- Lamster, Frederick. "Souls Made Great Through Love and Adversity": the Film Work of Frank Borzage. Scarecrow, 1981.
External links
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
- A Farewell to Arms (1932) - This Borzage-directed adaptation of Ernest Hemingway'sErnest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
novelA Farewell to ArmsA Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway concerning events during the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The book, which was first published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance...
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. - Flesh and Desire: The Films of Frank Borzage
- Frank Borzage and the Classic Hollywood Style