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King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator."
Aug 3, 2022 · King Vidor, the Versatile Messenger. “I believe in the motion picture that carries a message to humanity,” wrote King Vidor in 1920. He’d already directed and appeared in a good number of shorts and features, and then, in his midtwenties, he founded his own production company, Vidor Village, with a brief statement of principles that ...
Vidor’s autobiography, A Tree Is a Tree, was published in 1953. King Vidor - Stella Dallas, The Citadel, Duel in the Sun: Vidor then helmed one of his best-remembered efforts, Stella Dallas (1937), an adaptation of Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel. Barbara Stanwyck essayed the role of a working-class mother who sacrifices her own happiness for ...
By Raymond Durgnat in the July-August 1973 Issue. King Vidor, Raymond Durgnat tells us, "contained multitudes." In a forty-year career that paralleled the growth of American cinema from a charmed adolescence to a tenacious, if tenuous independence, Vidor directed almost every kind of film (comedy, western, war movie, weepie, message film).
King Vidor's films range across all genres, but they are unified by a concern with the struggle for selfhood in a pluralistic, mass society. Influenced both by D.W. Griffith's realism and Sergei Eisenstein's montage aesthetic, Vidor has come closer to reconciling these strains than any other American director.Raised in Texas, Vidor shot local events for national newsreel companies before...
King Vidor. King Vidor (nama asli King Wallis Vidor; 8 Februari 1894 – 1 November 1982) adalah seorang sutradara dan penulis di Amerika Serikat pada tahun 1920-an. [1] [2] Vidor menikah dengan Florence Vidor, Eleanor Boardman dan Elizabeth Hill Vidor. [1] Pernikahan dia pertama adalah dengan Florence Vidor yaitu pada tahun 1915 dan bercerai ...
King Vidor. Highest Rated: 100% The Big Parade (1925) Lowest Rated: 14% Solomon and Sheba (1959) Birthday: Feb 8, 1894. Birthplace: Galveston, Texas, USA. King Vidor's films range across all ...
