Biography king vidor

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King Vidor

Early Career

King Wallis Vidor was born on February 8, 1894 in Galveston, Texas. His grandfather immigrated to Texas from Hungary in the 1850s. As a teenager, Vidor worked at a local movie theater as a projectionist and ticket taker. Around the age of twenty, he began shooting local newsreel footage and selling it to interested parties. In 1913, Vidor made a film version of the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900, which he survived, and later wrote about in Esquire Magazine in 1935. He also shot a military parade.

In 1915, Vidor married a Houston girl, Florence Arto, and they moved to Hollywood. Through the influence of popular film actress Corinne Griffith, Florence and King became active in the movies. Florence rose rapidly from small parts to leading lady. She appeared in films for the Fox Corporation, Jessie L. Lasky, and Famous Players Lasky. During the late 1910s, she co-starred with Sessue Hayakawa in several films.

Florence Vidor

King Vidor began his film career writing stories and scripts for small film companies and as an extra (notably in Intolerance). In 1919, King Vidor began to direct his own scenarios for a small, independent production company, Brentwood Film Corporation. He made his directorial debut with The Turn in the Road (1919) wi

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Paris. Summer of 1928. King Vidor was sitting at the terrace of the Café de la Paix, on Place de l’Opéra, preoccupied with the latest Variety headline which read: “Pix Industry Goes 100% for Sound.”

After two months of hobnobbing with the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, discussing future plans of making a film together in the City of Lights, watching the daily ballet lesson of his wife Zelda, visiting expatriate Silvia Beach who introduced him to James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway, the director felt the urgency to head home, back to Hollywood. “A major transition had taken place in the motion picture industry,” he writes in “A Tree is a Tree,” his memoirs published in 1953, at the twilight of his career. “I was excited, but greatly saddened. I realized that much magic would disappear from the screen, and that also new techniques would have to be discovered, invented and established. The dragon of sound must be met head-on and conquered.” And he did just that. A year later Vidor would direct his first talkie, the ground-breaking all-Black cast musical Hallelujah.

By then he was already a very established director with twenty-six silent movies to his credit which helped seal his reputation as one of the most reliable filmmakers equally at ease in assorted genres: Billy the Ki