Word: vidor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drew these early film-makers to their calling with such a vengeance serves as example, justifying to an extent our own feelings that proper values can be restored, that we must take chances to put conviction in our own films and, as Karen Morley said of her director, King Vidor (in Our Daily Bread), that we must learn to think with our eyes...
Such stories plague the careers of our greatest film-makers, including King Vidor, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, and Frank Borzage, as well as stars like Gloria Swanson, Rudolf Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney Sr., and even W. C. Fields, one of whose two films directed by D. W. Griffith is lost...
...University of Southern California, U.C.L.A., and New York University. All three have full-scale curriculums leading to bachelor's and master's degrees, professional-level studios, sophisticated faculty guidance. At U.S.C., for example, resident teachers of the school's 350 cinema majors include Hollywood Directors King Vidor and Norman Taurog, while Jerry Lewis is an "adjunct professor." U.C.L.A., which has an enrollment of over 300, is about to complete a $2,500,000 film-production center, including several tons of first-quality equipment purchased at an auction from the old Hal Roach Studios. Twenty-five hundred miles...
Even his marriages and divorces were spectacular productions. His break with Brice made international headlines; his divorce from his second wife, Eleanor Holm, cost him over a quarter of a million dollars. His marriage to Doris Vidor lasted six months; his third and fourth wives were the same woman-Joyce Matthews. In recent years, the grain of sand decided to leave the public eye, but there was no getting out, or no need to, for that matter. Rose had traded his Broadway sports jacket for a Wall Street vest. He owned 160,000 shares of AT&T which made...
Divorced. Billy Rose, 65, bantam Broadway entrepreneur and biggest single A.T. &T. stockholder (160,000 shares worth $11 million); by Doris Warner Vidor, 48, heiress to Hollywood's Warner Bros, fortune; on grounds of mental cruelty; after six months of marriage (his fifth); in Reno...