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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 ...
Charles Vidor. Charles Vidor was an Hungarian born film director who began his Hollywood career at the end of the silent movie era and who directed movies in a variety of genres for three decades from the very start of Hollywoods Golden Age. NB He is often confused with King Vidor, also a major early film director, but the two were not related.
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.
Jan 21, 2016 · Jan 21, 2016. G ilda starts in a dark void, the camera then moving up through the blackness into a crowded room, dice rolling across the floorboards. In a crouch, greasy hair falling in his face, Glenn Ford, as gambler Johnny Farrell, introduces the dirty, suspicious atmosphere of Charles Vidor’s 1946 film. Although Gilda shows Johnny’s ...
Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife of a criminal kingpin (George Macready), as well as the former flame of his bitter henchman (Glenn Ford), and she drives them both mad with desire and jealousy.
Film: South side of the 6600 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Director Born Károly Vidor on July 27, 1900 in Budapest, Hungary. Died June 4, 1959 of heart attack in Vienna, Austria. D irector Charles Vidor came to prominence at the end of the silent film era. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1900, he worked in motion pictures most of his life ...
