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Oct 20, 2015 · Alastair James. Born Sandor Kellner, 16 September 1893 in Hungary, Alexander Korda was a journalist before turning to film where, as founder of London films, he became one of the UK’s most important film producers. Having become, alongside Michael Curtiz, one of Hungary’s most prominent directors Korda decided to flee the country in 1919 ...
Alexander Korda remains an elusive figure and there are still arguments over whether he should best be considered a charlatan or a visionary. Born Sándor László Kellner on 16 September 1893 in Puszta Turpásztó, an isolated village in Hungary, his family was plunged into poverty when his father, an overseer on a large estate, died.
May 13, 2009 · THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII: GRAND DESIGNS Alexander Korda’s oeuvre is often characterized as larger-than-life, undoubtedly in part because the figures he was attracted to—kings and queens, legendary lovers and great artists—were often extraordinary. Though in his continent-spanning, four-decade-long career as a writer, director, and producer Korda would make dozens of films, on ...
Alexander Korda. Highest Rated: 100% Marius (1931) Lowest Rated: 50% Men of Tomorrow (1932) Birthday: Sep 16, 1893. Birthplace: Pusztatúrpásztó, Austria-Hungary. As one of the preeminent ...
Dec 20, 2018 · Hungarian émigré Alexander Korda arrived in London in the early 1930s and transformed the fortunes of British cinema. He established his production company, London Films, built a huge studio complex at Denham in Buckinghamshire, and made some of the most ambitious and visionary feature films Britain had ever seen.
That Hamilton Woman. One of cinema’s most dashing duos, real-life spouses Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier live their greatest on-screen romance in this visually dazzling tragic love story from legendary producer-director Alexander Korda. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century, That Hamilton Woman is a ...
May 21, 2007 · Behind. The Third Man. By Charles Drazin. May 21, 2007. I n January 1948, British film producer Sir Alexander Korda, head of British-Lion and London Film Productions, commissioned novelist Graham Greene to write and research “an original postwar continental story to be based on either or both of the following territories: Vienna, Rome.”.
