Charles Vidor
출생 : 1900-07-26, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
사망 : 1959-06-04
약력
Charles Vidor (July 27, 1900 – June 4, 1959) was a film director. Born Károly Vidor to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, he served in the Hungarian Army during World War I. He first came to prominence during the final years of the silent film era. Among his film successes are The Bridge (1929), Cover Girl (1944), A Song to Remember (1945), Gilda (1946), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Swan (1956), The Joker Is Wild (1957), and A Farewell to Arms (1957). He was married four times, to Frances Varone (1927–1931), actress Karen Morley (1932–1943), actress Evelyn Keyes (1943–1945), and Doris Warner (1945-1959, until his death), daughter of Warner Bros. President Harry Warner.
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The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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세계1차대전, 온 나라가 승리와 재난을 겪은 가운데, 빛나는 두 이름이 있었다. 마르네와 피아브 전투(The Marne and The Piave.) 작가가 되려는 프레드릭 헨리는 전쟁이 나자 이탈리아군의 의료병으로 자원하여 근무하다 임시 간호원으로 온 영국인 캐서린은 그 사람을 잊지 못하여 헨리중위와의 만남을 쉽게 받아들이지 못한다. 첫 날 만남을 혼돈 속에서 어색한 헤어짐으로 마무리한 캐서린은 그 다음날 이동하게 된 헨리중위를 환송하며 서로의 사랑을 확인한다. 캐서린으로부터 멀리 떨어진 헨리중위는 전투 중 부상을 당하여 후송되는데 친한 의사 리날디 소령에게 부탁하여 캐서린을 자신이 있는 병원으로 오게 한다. 부상으로 입원하여 있는 동안 꿈같은 시간을 함께 보내던 어느 날 캐서린은 자신의 임신 사실을 헨리에게 알리나 유부녀는 전방에 있을 수 없다는 규율 때문에 결혼은 불가하다고 하는데...
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Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
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A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
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A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
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A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
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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 university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
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19세기 스페인에 나바레라는 지방에서온 젊은 군인 돈 호세는 새로 부임한 곳에서 자유분방한 집시 카르멘을 만나며 첫눈에 사랑에 빠지게 된다.어느 날 근무지를 이탈하고 카르멘과 함께하는 자리에서 우발적으로 상사를 죽 이게 되어 둘은 도망을 치게된다. 피신중 카르멘은 강도단 두목 가르시아의 부인임을 알게되고 실망 하지만 가르시아 일당과 같은 길을 가야만 하는 처지다. 가르시아는 카르멘을 사이에 두고 돈 호세를 질투하여 결국 둘은 싸우게되 며 호세는 가르시아를 죽이고 강도단의 두목이된다. 카르멘은 또 다른 남자 투우사와 사랑에 빠지고 돈 호세와의 사이도 소원하게 된다.
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19세기 스페인에 나바레라는 지방에서온 젊은 군인 돈 호세는 새로 부임한 곳에서 자유분방한 집시 카르멘을 만나며 첫눈에 사랑에 빠지게 된다.어느 날 근무지를 이탈하고 카르멘과 함께하는 자리에서 우발적으로 상사를 죽 이게 되어 둘은 도망을 치게된다. 피신중 카르멘은 강도단 두목 가르시아의 부인임을 알게되고 실망 하지만 가르시아 일당과 같은 길을 가야만 하는 처지다. 가르시아는 카르멘을 사이에 두고 돈 호세를 질투하여 결국 둘은 싸우게되 며 호세는 가르시아를 죽이고 강도단의 두목이된다. 카르멘은 또 다른 남자 투우사와 사랑에 빠지고 돈 호세와의 사이도 소원하게 된다.
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아르헨티나의 도박장에서 많은 돈을 딴 조니는 거리에서 강도의 습격을 받는다. 카지노 소유주 먼슨의 도움으로 위기를 모면한 조니는 그의 심복이 된다. 조니는 먼슨의 아내 길다를 소개받는데, 길다는 다름아닌 조니의 옛 애인. 길다와 조니는 서로에게 이끌리고 이것을 눈치챈 먼슨은 질투와 증오심을 참지 못한다. 먼슨이 비행기 사고로 죽자, 결혼하게 되는 조니와 길다. 하지만 조니는 길다의 과거 남성 편력에 대해 의심을 갖게 되고 이들의 결혼 생활은 순탄치 않게 된다. 그러던 중 죽은 줄 알았던 먼슨이 복수를 하기 위해 돌아오고, 조니와 먼슨의 최후의 격투가 벌어진다.
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A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
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폴란드의 세계적인 음악가인 프레데리크 프랑수아 쇼팽의 전기영화. 작곡가이자 피아니스트인 쇼팽의 이야기에 픽션을 가미하여 제작되었다.
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Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.
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러스티 파커(Rusty Parker: 리타 헤이워드 분)는 브로드웨이의 나이트 클럽에서 일하는 코러스걸이다. 어느 날, 유명한 웨딩 잡지에서 커버 걸을 뽑는다는 얘기를 들은 러스티는 잡지사의 오디션에 참석하지만, 그 곳에서 만난 경쟁심 많은 동료의 잔꾀에 넘어가 오디션을 망치고 돌아온다. 한편 러스티의 동료를 보기 위해 나이트 클럽을 찾은 잡지사의 편집장 존 쿠대어(John Coudair: 오토 크루거 분)는 러스티에게 반하고 만다. 결국 러스티는 스타덤에 오르게 된다. 하지만 그녀는 잡지의 커버걸로 많은 돈을 벌면서도 우스꽝스런 나이트 클럽 공연을 계속한다.
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Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
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After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
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Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
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When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
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Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
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A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
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June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
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Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. After he entreats her to be his "mystery woman" to make his girl friend jealous, Jerry agrees to attend a reception that night with him at the Douglas home. This plays right into Jerry's plans, as she is a jewel thief who intends to steal the Douglas jewels with her cohorts, Uncle John and Jeff...
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A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
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A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spinal meningitis, Norris recklessly runs roughshod over the feelings of his colleagues. The doctor's older, wiser supervisor, Dr. Clem Driscoll (George Bancroft), tries to curb Norris' impatience, pointing out that nothing takes place overnight. Angrily, Norris accuses Driscoll of malpractice and is forced to resign from the clinic -- just when a meningitis epidemic breaks out.
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Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
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A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
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Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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A domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
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Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
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Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
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A condemned man manages to avoid being hanged from a bridge over a river when the rope breaks, so that he falls and sinks into the water…
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A condemned man manages to avoid being hanged from a bridge over a river when the rope breaks, so that he falls and sinks into the water…