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Borzage was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. For his 1927 film, Seventh Heaven he became the first person ever to win the Academy Award for Directing. His other films include: Street Angel (1928), Lucky Star (1929), A Farewell to Arms (1932), Strange Cargo (1940), and The Spanish Main (1945), among many others. Salt Lake City redirects here. ... For other uses, see Seventh Heaven (disambiguation) Seventh Heaven is a 1927 silent film that was one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called Best Picture, Production). The film was written by H.H. Caldwell (titles), Benjamin Glazer, Katherine Hilliker (titles... The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ... Street Angel is a 1928 film about a woman who finds herself destitute and on the streets. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... The Spanish Main is a 1945 adventure film starring Maureen OHara and directed by Frank Borzage. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...

After 1948 his output became sporadic. His last film work was sequences on Edgar G. Ulmer's L'Atlantide (aka Journey Beneath The Desert) (1962), for which he went uncredited. Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Edgar G. Ulmer - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... LAtlantide is a French novel by Pierre Benoît published in 1919 that is essentially a plagiarism of H. Rider Haggards novel, She. ...

Frank Borzage died in 1962 at the age of 69, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Gates of Forest Lawn Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. ... Nickname: The Jewel City Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ...

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Frank Borzage has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

Borzage told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "in three syllables, and g in get, bor-zay'gee." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.) The Literary Digest was an influential general-interest magazine in the early 20th century United States. ...

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Further reading

• Dumont, Herve. Frank Borzage: the Life and Times of a Hollywood Romantic. McFarland, 2006.
• Lamster, Frederick. "Souls Made Great Through Love and Adversity": the Film Work of Frank Borzage. Scarecrow, 1981.

External links

• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
• They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
• A Farewell to Arms (1932) - This Borzage-directed adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel has fallen into the public domain and is available online through the Internet Archive.