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Frank Borzage: a FAREWELL to ARMS (1932, 80 Min.) February 5, 2019 (XXXVIII:2) Frank Borzage: A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932, 80 min.) DIRECTED BY Frank Borzage WRITING Benjamin Glazer and Oliver H.P. Garrett (screenplay), Ernest Hemingway (novel), Laurence Stallings (play) (uncredited) PRODUCER Frank Borzage MUSIC Herman Hand, W. Franke Harling, Bernhard Kaun, John Leipold, Paul Marquardt, Ralph Rainger, and Milan Roder: all uncredited CINEMATOGRAPHY Charles Lang (photographed by) FILM EDITING Otho Lovering (uncredited) and George Nichols Jr. (uncredited) ART DIRECTION Roland Anderson (uncredited) and Hans Dreier (uncredited) COSTUME DESIGN Travis Banton (uncredited) Academy Awards, USA 1934 The film won the Oscars for Best Cinematography (Charles Lang) and Best Sound, Recording (Franklin Hansen), and it was nominated for Best Picture and for Best Art Direction (Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson). Progress (1918), Society for Sale (1918), Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919), and Prudence on Broadway (1919). His greatest CAST success in the silent era was with Humoresque (1920), a box Helen Hayes...Catherine office winner starring Vera Gordon. Themes Borzage would Gary Cooper...Frederic revisit involved the feelings of young lovers in the face of Adolphe Menjou...Rinaldi adversity, with love in his films triumphing over such trials as Mary Philips...Ferguson World War I (7th Heaven and 1932’s A Farewell to Arms), Jack La Rue...Priest disability (Lucky Star), the Depression (Man's Castle), a thinly Blanche Friderici...Head Nurse disguised version of the Titanic disaster in History Is Made at Mary Forbes...Miss Van Campen Night (1937), and the rise of Nazism in Little Man, What Now? Gilbert Emery...British Major (1933), Three Comrades (1938), and The Mortal Storm (1940). He began to explore religious themes in films such as The Big FRANK BORZAGE (b. April 23, 1894 in Salt Lake City, Fisherman (1959). Of his later work, only the film noir Moonrise Utah—d. June 19, 1962 (age 68) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, (1948) has enjoyed much critical acclaim. After 1948, his output California) was an active and successful director throughout the was sporadic. He was the original director of Journey Beneath 1920s who reached his peak in the late silent and early sound era. the Desert (1961), but was too sick to continue, and Edgar G. He took influence from the German director F.W. Murnau in Ulmer took over. In 1955 and 1957, Borzage was awarded The developing his own style of lushly visual romanticism. He honed George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for this style in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet distinguished contribution to the art of film. Early in his career, Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including 7th Heaven (1927), for he was an actor in short and feature films, garnering a staggering which he won the first Academy Award for Best Director, Street 129 credits, including, late in his career in 1957’s Jeanne Eagels. Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929). He won a second Oscar for He directed 107 and produced 29 films. These are some of the 1931's Bad Girl. In his early career, he directed 14 films between other films he directed: The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine (1913 1917 and 1919, including: The Gun Woman (1918), Innocent's Short), The Pitch o' Chance (1915 Short), Life's Harmony (1916 Borzage: A FAREWELL TO ARMS—2 Short), The Silken Spider (1916 Short), The Code of Honor (1916 faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his Short), Two Bits (1916 Short), A Flickering Light (1916 Short), predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his Unlucky Luke (1916 Short), Jack (1916 Short), The Pilgrim short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without (1916 Short), The Demon of Fear (1916 Short), The Quicksands Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine of Deceit (1916 Short), Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916 Short), That Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.” The Nobel Gal of Burke's (1916 Short), The Courtin' of Calliope Clew bio writers soften the ending: whiule his wife slept upstairs, he (1916 Short), Nell Dale's Men Folks (1916 Short), The Forgotten donned his favorite robe, went to the foyer of the house, and Prayer (1916 Short), Matchin' Jim (1916 Short), Land o' Lizards blew off his head with a shotgun. (For a detailed account of this, (1916), Immediate Lee (1916), The Pride and the Man (1916), see John Walsh: “Being Ernest: John Walsh Unravels the The Valley of Silent Men (1922), The Pride of Palomar (1922), mystery behind Hemingway’s suicide” (The Independent 2011). The Nth Commandment (1923), Children of Dust (1923), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/being- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925), The River (1928), Doctors' ernest-john-walsh-unravels-the-mystery-behind-hemingways- Wives (1931), After Tomorrow (1932), Young America (1932), suicide-2294619.html No Greater Glory (1934), Big City (1937), The Vanishing Virginian (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), Till We Meet CHARLES LANG (b. March 27, 1902 in Bluff, Utah—d. April Again (1944), I've Always Loved You (1946), That's My Man 3, 1998 (age 96) in Santa Monica, California) did (1947), and China Doll (1958). cinematography for 150 films, spanning the 1920s to the 1970s. He was nominated for 20 best cinematography Oscars and won ERNEST HEMINGWAY one-- for A Farewell to Arms. The nominations were for The (b. July 21, 1899 in Oak Right to Love (1930), Arise, My Love (1940), Sundown (1941), Park, Illinois—d. July 2, So Proudly We Hail! (1943), The Uninvited (1944), The Ghost 1961 (age 61) in Ketchum, and Mrs. Muir (1947), A Foreign Affair (1948), Sudden Fear Idaho) was one of the most (1952), Sabrina (1954), Queen Bee (1955), Separate Tables important twentieth-century (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Facts of Life (1960), One- novelists and short story Eyed Jacks (1961), How the West Was Won (1962), Bob & Carol writers. Hemingway’s novels & Ted & Alice (1969), Butterflies Are Free (1972). These are and stories have been some of the other films he worked on: The Night Patrol (1926), adapted for film and Seven Days Leave (1930), Unfaithful (1931), No One Man television 85 times. He won (1932), Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1932), Thunder Below the Nobel Prize in Literature (1932), Devil and the Deep (1932), A Farewell to Arms (1932), in 1954 "for his mastery of Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer the art of narrative, most (1935), Desire (1936), You and Me (1938), Buck Benny Rides recently demonstrated in The Again (1940), Frenchman's Creek (1944), Here Come the Waves Old Man and the Sea, and for (1944), The Stork Club (1945), The Great Lover (1949), the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style." September Affair (1950), Copper Canyon (1950), Branded According to the Nobel Prize bio, Hemingway “started (1950), The Mating Season (1951), Ace in the Hole (1951), The his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the Big Heat (1953), It Should Happen to You (1954), The Long age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World Gray Line (1955), Autumn Leaves (1956), The Solid Gold War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Cadillac (1956), The Rainmaker (1956), Gunfight at the O.K. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Corral (1957), The Matchmaker (1958), Strangers When We Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. Meet (1960), The Magnificent Seven (1960), Charade (1963), After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Father Goose (1964), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Daisy Clover (1965), Hotel (1967), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. Wait Until Dark (1967), The Stalking Moon (1968), How to “During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of Commit Marriage (1969), Cactus Flower (1969), A Walk in the the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in Spring Rain (1970), and 40 Carats (1973). his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an GARY COOPER (b. May 7, 1901 in Helena, Montana—d. May American ambulance officer’s disillusionment in the war and his 13, 1961 (age 60) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California) role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most leading roles in 84 feature films, 117 films in total. He was a ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. Cooper began and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman’s journey, his his career as a film extra and stunt rider, but soon landed acting long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory roles. After establishing himself as a Western hero in his early in defeat. silent films, he became a movie star in 1929 with his first sound “Hemingway – himself a great sportsman – liked to picture, The Virginian. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters – tough, at times primitive image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and Bengal Lancer (1935).
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