Charles Vidor

Charles Vidor Headshot

Director

Birth Date: July 27, 1900

Death Date: June 4, 1959

Birth Place: Budapest, Hungary

Spouses: Evelyn Keyes, Karen Morley

Editor and assistant director with UFA who arrived in the US in 1924 and, after a stint with a Wagnerian opera company and in a Broadway chorus, left for Hollywood. Vidor made his directorial debut in 1931 with the self-financed short, "The Bridge," which landed him a contract with MGM. In 1932 he co-directed his first feature, "The Mask of Fu Manchu," one of the finest screen adaptations of the Sax Rohmer novels.

Vidor was noted for his ability to impart a technical fluency to routine subjects; among the best of his prolific output were "Ladies in Retirement" (1941), "Love Me or Leave Me" (1955) and "The Joker Is Wild" (1957). Vidor was also responsible for the trailblazing psychological study, "Blind Alley" (1939), and the two Rita Hayworth vehicles that cemented her stardom: the arresting musical, "Cover Girl" (1944), and the steamy noir thriller, "Gilda" (1946).

Credits

Pjesma bez kraja

Director
Movie
1960

Song Without End

Director
Movie
1960

Le Bal des adieux

Director
Movie
1960

The Joker Is Wild

Director
Movie
1957

The Joker Is Wild

Executive Producer
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1957

A Farewell to ArmsStream

Director
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1957
8%

The SwanStream

Director
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1956

Love Me or Leave MeStream

Director
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1955
71%

Rhapsody

Director
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1954

Thunder in the East

Director
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1953

Hans Christian Andersen

Director
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1952

It's a Big Country

Director
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1951

Edge of Doom

Director
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1950

The Loves of Carmen

Director
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1948

The Loves of Carmen

Producer
Movie
1948

GildaStream

Director
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1946
90%

A Song to Remember

Director
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1945

Over 21

Director
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1945

Cover GirlStream

Director
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1944
95%

Together Again

Director
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1944

The DesperadoesStream

Director
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1943
80%

The Tuttles of Tahiti

Director
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1942

Ladies in Retirement

Director
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1941

New York Town

Director
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1941

My Son, My Son

Director
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1940

The Lady in Question

Director
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1940

Blind Alley

Director
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1939

Romance of the Redwoods

Director
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1939

Those High Grey Walls

Director
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1939

The Great Gambini

Director
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1937

A Doctor's Diary

Director
Movie
1937

She's No Lady

Director
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1937

Muss 'Em Up

Director
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1936

His Family Tree

Director
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1936

Strangers All

Director
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1935

The Arizonian

Director
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1935

Double Door

Director
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1934

Sensation Hunters

Director
Movie
1933

Me and My Gal

Writer
Movie
1932

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Director
Movie
1932