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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:285:''"Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act."'']] |
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| 4 | Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director, best remembered for his classic films made during MediaNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood and MediaNotes/ThePreCodeEra. Recognized as a master of mise-en-scene, he developed a highly expressive visual style, utilizing everything the contemporary technology had to offer – lighting, montage, composition – to make every frame rise an emotion in the audience. |
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| 6 | Borzage's genre of choice was {{Melodrama}}. His typical movie features a pair of lovers kept apart by various obstacles, including poverty, disability, war and trouble with law. After [[EarnYourHappyEnding lots of hardship]], they ultimately reunite, their love [[LoveRedeems redeeming]] them from whatever mistakes they made, and almost turning them into saints. Some of his most successful films feature the [[ThoseTwoActors starring duo of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell]], a perfect example of HugeGuyTinyGirl. |
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| 8 | While occupying the idealistic part of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, Borzage's films are among the finest examples of pre-Code Hollywood cinema, addressing topics like crime, prostitution, and racism, and portraying the lovers' relationship as openly erotic. However, he endured well both the MediaNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies and the introduction of MediaNotes/TheHaysCode, proceeding to make movies until his death. |
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| 10 | He won the Best Director, Dramatic Picture award at the very first MediaNotes/{{Academy Awards|Ceremonies}} ceremony for the film ''Film/SeventhHeaven'', which also brought Janet Gaynor the Best Actress in a Leading Role award, and Benjamin Glazer the Best Writing, Adapted Story award. In 1960 his star was put on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
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| 12 | Appears briefly as a HistoricalDomainCharacter in Horace [=McCoy=]'s 1935 novel ''Literature/TheyShootHorsesDontThey'' |
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| 15 | !!Frank Borzage films on TV Tropes: |
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| 17 | * ''Film/{{Humoresque}}'' (1920) |
| 18 | * ''Film/{{The Circle|1925}}'' (1925) |
| 19 | * ''Film/SeventhHeaven'' (1927) |
| 20 | * ''Film/StreetAngel'' (1928) |
| 21 | * ''Film/LuckyStar'' (1929) |
| 22 | * ''Film/BadGirl'' (1931) |
| 23 | * ''Film/AFarewellToArms'' (1932) |
| 24 | * ''Film/MansCastle'' (1933) |
| 25 | * ''Film/{{Secrets|1933}}'' (1933) |
| 26 | * ''Film/FlirtationWalk'' (1934) |
| 27 | * ''Film/{{Desire|1936}}'' (1936) |
| 28 | * ''Film/HistoryIsMadeAtNight'' (1937) |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheMortalStorm'' (1940) |
| 30 | * ''Film/StrangeCargo'' (1940) |
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