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Charles Vidor (born Károly Vidor; July 27, 1900 – June 4, 1959) was a Hungarian film director.
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- 1929–1959
- Film director
- 4 June 1959 (aged 58), Vienna, Austria
Charles Vidor. Director: Gilda. Hungarian-born Karoly Vidor spent the First World War as a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian infantry. Following the armistice, he made his way to Berlin and worked for the German film company Ufa, as editor and assistant director.
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- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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- Vienna, Austria
Charles Vidor, Hungarian-born American director who primarily made comedies and musicals but was best known for the film noir classic Gilda (1946). His other notable movies included Cover Girl (1944), Together Again (1944), A Song to Remember (1945), and Love Me or Leave Me (1955).
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Learn about the life and career of Charles Vidor, a Hungarian-born film director who directed movies in various genres from the silent era to the 1950s. He is known for his films with Rita Hayworth, such as 'Gilda' and 'A Song to Remember', and his biopics of Chopin, Liszt and Carmen.
Gilda: Directed by Charles Vidor. With Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia. A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
- Charles Vidor
- 1946-04-25
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Biography. 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.
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American epic war drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway 's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick .