Word: vidor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Vidor says: "I can't make a picture unless I have a feeling about it." His slowness in communicating his feelings during story conferences irritates writers and producers. He cannot write dialog or construct a story himself but has a talent for squeezing the last drop of emotion out of any well-written scene. He came to Hollywood with his wife Florence 18 years ago in a rattletrap Ford, stealing gas and tires on the way, bringing with him a camera record of the trip. Since then he has made such silent pictures as The Big Parade...
...Revolution. The Russians had queer ideas of their countryman who was coming back to play for them. He would arrive with two Ethiopian bodyguards. His violin would be in a bright silver case. His wife would be either a Miss Ford or a Miss Rockefeller instead of Cinemactress Florence Vidor. Even so, there were Russians who took five-day journeys to hear Heifetz fiddle in Leningrad and Moscow, Russians who paid as high as 24 rubles ($19.20) to squeeze into his concerts, Russians who stayed long after the lights went down to hear his Schubert's Ave Maria. Heifetz...
...book State Fair into one of the best pictures of last winter. The Stranger's Return, which was completed in Hollywood by the time the book was published (TIME, July 10), is an even more appealing pastoral, distinguished by Author Stong's incisive characterizations and by King Vidor's direction which is so authoritative that Lionel Barrymore acts all through the picture without belching once...
...simplicity of the story, the fact that its elements have been used in the cinema a thousand times before, make it easy to overlook the fact that Cynara is a most unusual picture. This is not because it possesses the surface excellences-sensitive direction, by King Vidor, and more than competent acting-with which shrewd old Samuel Goldwyn quite often equips his productions. It is because Cynara presents, with sombre thoughtfulness, a situation which the cinema almost always handles blatantly ; and because the values which it involves, while not particularly subtle, are wholly unlike those which U. S. cinema audiences...
Separated. Eleanor Boardman. film actress; from King Wallis Vidor, director, former husband of Florence Vidor who is now the wife of Jascha Heifetz, violinist; in Los Angeles...