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Frank Borzage

American film director and producer
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Frank Borzage (born April 23, 1894, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.—died June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California) was an American motion-picture director and producer noted for his romantic transcendentalism and technically impeccable filmmaking. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Borzage was the son of a master stonemason. He began acting in his teens with a theatrical troupe, doubling as a prop boy before entering films as an actor in 1912 for producer and...

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