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Charles Vidor

Highest Rated: 95% Cover Girl (1944)

Lowest Rated: 8% A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Birthday: Jul 27, 1900

Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

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).

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 71% Cover Girl
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90% 88% Gilda
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88% 51% The Mask of Fu Manchu
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83% 75% Hans Christian Andersen
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83% 39% Song Without End
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80% 50% The Desperadoes
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71% 75% Love Me or Leave Me
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8% 36% A Farewell to Arms
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Thunder in the East
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70% The Swan
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Charles Vidor

Charles Vidor GILDA, director Charles Vidor, left, talks to Rita Hayworth, while a camera assistant checks the lighting, on-set, 1946 GILDA, director Charles Vidor, straightening Glenn Ford's tie, on-set, 1946 GILDA, director Charles Vidor on set, 1946 GILDA, Rita Hayworth, getting her makeup touched up while cinematographer Rudolph Mate, left, checks lenses and director Charles Vidor, right, takes a cigarette break, on-set, 1946 LADIES IN RETIREMENT, Ida Lupino, director Charles Vidor on set, 1941 TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT, Lee Bowman, director Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth on set, 1945 THE JOKER IS WILD, Carmen Sevilla (left) visiting with Frank Sinatra (center) and director Charles Vidor (right), between scenes, on set, 1957 A SONG TO REMEMBER, Cornel Wilde, director Charles Vidor, Merle Oberon on set, 1945 GILDA, director Charles Vidor, visitor Shirley Temple, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford on set, 1946 View more photos

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Song Without End 83% 39% 1960 Director A Farewell to Arms 8% 36% 1957 Director The Joker Is Wild 82% 1957 Director, Executive Producer The Swan 70% 1956 Director Love Me or Leave Me 71% 75% 1955 Director Rhapsody 60% 1954 Director Thunder in the East 1953 Director Hans Christian Andersen 83% 75% 1952 Director It's a Big Country 25% 1951 Director Edge of Doom 28% 1950 Director The Loves of Carmen 50% 1948 Director, Producer Gilda 90% 88% 1946 Director A Song to Remember 53% 1945 Director Over 21 1945 Director Cover Girl 95% 71% 1944 Director Together Again 1944 Director The Desperadoes 80% 50% 1943 Director The Tuttles of Tahiti 50% 1942 Director Ladies in Retirement 71% 1941 Director New York Town 1941 Director The Lady in Question 35% 1940 Director My Son, My Son 1940 Director Blind Alley 31% 1939 Director Romance of the Redwoods 1939 Director Those High Grey Walls 1939 Director
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