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Frank Borzage
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Director Born: April 23, 1893 in Salt Lake City, UT Death: June 19, 1962 in Hollywood, CA Biography:Of all the major Hollywood directors whose careers straddled the silent and sound eras -- including John Ford, Howard Hawks, and King Vidor -- none is more problematic than Frank Borzage. He won Academy Awards as Best Director in both the silent and sound periods, and his career encompassed immensely popular movies of the 1930s and fascinating, if not financially successful or critically accepted, movies well into the 1940s and the end of the 1950s. Yet, by the end of his career, Borzage's work was relegated to historical status, and is today widely regarded as hopelessly dated and sentimental.
Frank Borzage (pronounced "Bor-ZAY-gee") was of Swiss, Italian, and Austrian ancestry, born in Salt Lake City, UT, the fourth of eight children of an Italian-speaking stonemason father and a German-speaking mother. He was a true child of the West, even working in a gold mine at the age of 13, in addition to... Full Biography
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