Frank Borzage
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Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film producer and actor best known for directing 7th Heaven (1927), Man's Castle (1931), and Moonrise (1948).
Personal life
Borzage married vaudeville and film actress Lorena "Rena" Rogers in Los Angeles on June 7, 1916, and they were married until 1941. He married Edna Stillwell Skelton, the ex-wife of comedian Red Skelton; the pair were divorced in 1949. When he died, he was married to Juanita.
He was a keen sportsman, with a 3-goal handicap and a two- handicap in golf, as well as a yachtsman.
Borzage died of cancer at the age of 68, and was laid to rest in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Career
Frank Borzage began working in Hollywood in 1912, and he continued to act as an actor until 1917. He made his directorial debut in 1915 with the film The Pitch o' Chance.
Borzage was a popular entrepreneur in the 1920s; he reached his peak in the late silent and early sound period. The German director F.W.'s absorptioning visual influences. Murnau, a resident of Fox at the time, created his own brand of lushly visual romance in a hugely profitable series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including 7th Heaven (1927), for which he received the first Academy Award for Best Director, Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929). For 1931's Bad Girl, he received his second Oscar.
He produced 14 films from 1917 to 1919 alone; Humoresque (1920), a box-office winner starring Vera Gordon, was his highest success in the silent age.
Borzage's trademark was a strong representation of young lovers in the face of adversity, with love in his films prevailing over such challenges as World War II (7th Heaven and A Farewell to Arms), the Holocaust (Lucky Star), and the emergence of Nazism, a subject which Borzage referred to as a "the Titanic tragedy in History Is Made at Night, a closely disguised adaptation of the Titanic disaster in History Is (1933), Three Comrades (1938), and The Mortal Storm (1940).
In films like Green Light (1937), Strange Cargo (1940), and The Big Fisherman (1959), his career took a spiritual turn. Moonrise (1948) is one of his later works to receive a lot of critical attention.
His career was sporadic after 1948.
Borzage was named The George Eastman Award by George Eastman House in 1955 and 1957 for his outstanding contribution to the field of film. Borzage received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his contributions to the film industry. The actor is located at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard.
He was the original director of Journey Beneath the Desert (1961), but he was too ill to continue, and Edgar G. Ulmer took over. Borzage was uncredited for the sequences he did not control.
He received the D. W. Griffith Award while hospitalized in February 1962.
He served as an officer and board member of the Directors Guild of America.
Borzage married vaindeville and film actress Lorena "Rena" Rogers in Los Angeles on June 7, 1916, and remained married until 1941. Edna Stillwell Skelton, the ex-wife of comedian Red Skelton, was divorced in 1949; he married her in 1945. When he died, he was married to Juanita.
He was a keen sportsman, with a three-goal polo handicap and a two- handicap in golf, as well as a yachtsman.
Borzage died of cancer in 1962, aged 68, and he was laid to rest in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.