Vidor, King, 1894-1982
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Vidor, King, 1894-1982
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Vidor, King, 1895-1982
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Vidor, King (King Wallis), 1894-1982
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Vidor, King Wallis.
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Vidor King Wallis 1894-1982
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Vidor King Wallis 1894-1982
Vidor, King Wallis, 1895-1982
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Vidor, King Wallis, 1895-1982
Vidor, King Wallis, 1895-
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Filmmaker, art collector; Los Angeles, Calif.
American movie producer.
American motion picture director.
King Wallis Vidor was born Feb. 8, 1894 in Galveston, TX; made fifty-six feature films in forty years; married Florence Arto, 1915 (divorced 1925); married Eleanor Boardman, 1926 (later divorced); married Elizabeth Hill; his directorial debut was The turn in the road (1919); made Hallelujah! (1929), the first sound picture with an all black cast; best known for The big parade (1925), The crowd (1928), The champ (1931), Stella Dallas (1937), and Duel in the sun (1947); wrote an autobiography, A tree is a tree (1953); retired from films in the late 1950s; taught a graduate cinema class during the 1960s at UCLA; received Edinburgh Film Festival award for career achievements, 1964; after receiving five Academy Award nominations during the course of his career, he was granted a special award for his innovations in cinema, 1979; died of congestive heart failure, Paso Robles, CA, on Nov. 1, 1982.
Moving-picture director.
Biography
King Wallis Vidor was born February 8, 1894 in Galveston, Texas; made fifty-six feature films in forty years; married Florence Arto, 1915 (divorced 1925); married Eleanor Boardman, 1926 (later divorced); married Elizabeth Hill; his directorial debut was The turn in the road (1919); made Hallelujah! (1929), the first sound picture with an all black cast; best known for The big parade (1925), The crowd (1928), The champ (1931), Stella Dallas (1937), and Duel in the sun (1947); wrote an autobiography, A tree is a tree (1953); retired from films in the late 1950s; taught a graduate cinema class during the 1960s at UCLA; received Edinburgh Film Festival award for career achievements, 1964; after receiving five Academy Award nominations during the course of his career, he was granted a special award for his innovations in cinema, 1979; died of congestive heart failure, Paso Robles, California, on November 1, 1982.
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Art, American
Art
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
Motion pictures
Motion pictures
Motion pictures
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Performing arts
Silent films
Silent films
Silent films
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Americans
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California--Los Angeles
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United States
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United States
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United States
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Pennsylvania--Chadds Ford
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