Biography: Charles Vidor |
Vidor was an American director, born in Hungary. At his best,Vidor could take extremely slight material and work magic with it. Cases in point: The Great Gambini (1937), Ladies in Retirement (1941), The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942), and in particular,
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Cast: George Cukor
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 130min
Hoping to recapture the success of its 1945 Frederic Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures concocted the 1960 Technicolor costume drama Song Without End. Dirk Bogarde is cast as musical genius Franz Liszt. Bogarde's piano scenes are...
Cast: Vittorio De Sica John Huston Rock Hudson David O. Selznick
Tags: War War Romance War Drama Melodrama
Length: 160min
Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind). Rock Hudson plays an American serving in the Italian Army during the "War to End All...
Cast: Frank Sinatra
Tags: Showbiz Drama Drama Biopic
Length: 126min
Frank Sinatra stars as legendary nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis in this dramatic screen biography. In the 1920s, Lewis was a popular singer in Chicago who could fill any nightclub he chose to play. This doesn't go unnoticed by the mobsters who control...
Cast: James Cagney Doris Day
Tags: Marriage Drama Musical Drama Showbiz Drama Musical Drama Biopic
Length: 122min
One of the gutsiest movie musicals of the 1950s, Love Me or Leave Me is the true story of 1930s torch-singer Ruth Etting, here played by Doris Day. While working in a dime-a-dance joint, Ruth is discovered by Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder...
Cast: Alec Guinness Grace Kelly
Tags: Comedy of Manners Romantic Drama Comedy Romance
Length: 112min
Frances Howard starred as Princess Alexandria in the 1925 silent version of Ferenc Molnar's play The Swan; Lillian Gish assumed the role in the 1930 talkie version. The third and final adaptation starred Grace Kelly, who had one slight advantage over...
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama Romance
Length: 115min
Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of millionaire Nicholas Durant (Louis Calhern). Accustomed to getting whatever she wants, Louise sets her sights on...
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Cast: Danny Kaye
Tags: Musical Fantasy Musical Musical Drama Biopic
Length: 112min
Hans Christian Andersen was Sam Goldwyn's final production for RKO Radio release, and also the producer's last Danny Kaye vehicle. The Moss Hart-Myles Connolly screenplay largely disregards the facts concerning Denmark's great storyteller, opting for...
Cast: Alan Ladd Cecil Kellaway
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Drama War Drama Action Adventure Drama War
Length: 98min
During the early days of East Indian independence in 1947, a native rebellion threatens a hotel full of Britishers, Europeans and Americans. Gunrunner Alan Ladd could care less about anything other than his own neck. Ladd runs up against the...
Cast: Gene Kelly Janet Leigh Gary Cooper Fredric March
Length: 89min
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a...
Cast: Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford
Tags: Romance Drama Melodrama Romantic Drama
Length: 96min
Perhaps it's just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimee's Carmen without Georges Bizet's music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford weren't exactly Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill. The Loves of Carmen is a reasonably faithful...
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