Frank Borzage

导演, 制片人, 演员, 编剧

1894年4月23日 — 1962年6月19日 (68 years)
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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.

Plex 上的电影与电视节目

  • 党同伐异
    党同伐异1916
  • 告别武器
    告别武器1932
  • 月升时分
    月升时分1948
  • Stage Door Canteen
    Stage Door Canteen1943
  • 一代佳人
    一代佳人1946

知名作品

  • 告别武器
    告别武器1932
  • 致命风暴
    致命风暴1940
  • 第七天堂
    第七天堂1927
  • 欲念
    欲念1936
  • 月升时分
    月升时分1948
  • 奇异的货物
    奇异的货物1940
  • 深夜造就历史
    深夜造就历史1937
  • 马路天使
    马路天使1928
  • 难测女人心
    难测女人心1931
  • 战后三友
    战后三友1938
  • 男人的城堡
    男人的城堡1933
  • 血海争雄记
    血海争雄记1945
  • Stage Door Canteen
    Stage Door Canteen1943
  • 幸运星
    幸运星1929
  • Mannequin
    Mannequin1938
  • 姑嫂之间
    姑嫂之间1938
  • 漫步调情
    漫步调情1934
  • Flight Command
    Flight Command1940
  • Hearts Divided
    Hearts Divided1936
  • I Take This Woman
    I Take This Woman1940

影視作品