Frank Borzage

Realização, Produção, Ator, Escrito por

23 de abril de 1894 — 19 de junho de 1962 (68 anos)
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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.

Filmes e Séries no Plex

  • Intolerância
    Intolerância1916
  • O Adeus às Armas
    O Adeus às Armas1932
  • Consciência em Paz
    Consciência em Paz1948
  • Chuva de Estrelas
    Chuva de Estrelas1943
  • No Limiar da Glória
    No Limiar da Glória1946

Conhecido Por

  • O Adeus às Armas
    O Adeus às Armas1932
  • Tempestade Mortal
    Tempestade Mortal1940
  • A Hora Suprema
    A Hora Suprema1927
  • Desejo
    Desejo1936
  • Consciência em Paz
    Consciência em Paz1948
  • Os Fugitivos da Guiana
    Os Fugitivos da Guiana1940
  • Um Ladrão na Noite
    Um Ladrão na Noite1937
  • O Anjo da Rua
    O Anjo da Rua1928
  • Uma Jóia de Rapariga
    Uma Jóia de Rapariga1931
  • Três Camaradas
    Três Camaradas1938
  • A Vida é um Sonho
    A Vida é um Sonho1933
  • O Pirata dos Sete Mares
    O Pirata dos Sete Mares1945
  • Lucky Star
    Lucky Star1929
  • Manequim
    Manequim1938
  • Tentação
    Tentação1938
  • Começou Num Automóvel
    Começou Num Automóvel1934
  • Patrulha de Águias
    Patrulha de Águias1940
  • Chuva de Estrelas
    Chuva de Estrelas1943
  • Hearts Divided
    Hearts Divided1936
  • Esta Mulher é Minha
    Esta Mulher é Minha1940

Filmografia

1917
A Mormon Maid · as Tom Rigdon
1916
Intolerance · as Extra (uncredited)No Plex
1914
The Typhoon · as Renard Bernisky
1914
The Wrath of the Gods · as Tom Wilson
1914
Desert Gold · as John Carson
1914
A Romance of the Sea · as Undetermined Role
1913
Days of '49 · as Ben
1913
Granddad · as Mildred's Father
1913
1913
Dead Man's Shoes · as Cast
1913
A Dixie Mother · as Jim Cobly
1913
The Battle of Gettysburg · as Minor Role
1913
The Drummer of the 8th · as Jack Durand

1937
Mannequin · as Screenplay
1937

2016
2008
Murnau, Borzage and Fox · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited)
1957
Jeanne Eagels · as Self (uncredited)
1955
1950

1961
Journey Beneath the Desert · as Co-Director
1941
Billy the Kid · as Co-Director
1940
I Take This Woman · as Co-Director