Tribute: Frank Borzage Biography & Movies
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Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his film 7th Heaven (1927) at the 1st Academy Awards.
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entertainment · American film director and actor (1894–1962) · film director · screenwriter · film actor · film producer · actor · director · also Frank Borzage, Lew Borzage, Borzage
Born 23 April 1894 · Died 19 June 1962 · Q369190
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2024· 1 entry
New York Sun: Frank Borzage Is a Name Cineastes May Want To Know, and MoMA Is the Place To See His Films
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2018· 1 entry
Gulf News: Frank Borzage’s transcendent view of love
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2015· 2 entries
Los Angeles Times: Classic Hollywood: Director Frank Borzage’s ‘transcendent view of love’ fuels UCLA film series
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Chicago Reader: Frank Borzage’s five best films
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2009· 2 entries
The Daily Telegraph: Frank Borzage: a selection, DVD of the week
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Directors Guild of America: Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic
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1962· 2 entries
Died 1962-06-19.
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Aged 68, and he was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
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1955· 1 entry
And 1957, Borzage was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film
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1945· 1 entry
Married Edna Stillwell Skelton, the ex-wife of comedian Red Skelton; they were divorced in 1949
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Bad Girl (1932).
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director (Dramatic Picture) for Seventh Heaven (1929).
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1916· 1 entry
Borzage married vaudeville and film actress Lorena "Rena" Rogers in Los Angeles and remained married until 1941
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1912· 2 entries
Where he began directing and acting in short films before transitioning to feature films
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Borzage found employment as an actor in Hollywood; he continued to work as an actor until 1917
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1894· 2 entries
Born 1894-04-23.
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To a Swiss mother, Maria (née Ruegg; 1860–1947), and an Italian father, Luigi Borzaga, a stonemason born in 1859 Ronzone (then Austrian Empire)
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1883· 1 entry
And relocated to Wyoming before settling in Utah shortly before Frank's birth
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