Charles Vidor

Charles Vidor

Charles Vidor (July 27, 1900 – June 4, 1959) was a film director. Born Károly Vidor to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, he served in the Hungarian Army during World War I. He first came to prominence during the final years of the silent film era. Among his film successes are The Bridge (1929), Cover Girl (1944), A Song to Remember (1945), Gilda (1946), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Swan (1956), The Joker Is Wild (1957), and A Farewell to Arms (1957). He was married four times, to Frances Varone (1927–1931), actress Karen Morley (1932–1943), actress Evelyn Keyes (1943–1945), and Doris Warner (1945-1959, until his death), daughter of Warner Bros. President Harry Warner.

  • Title: Charles Vidor
  • Popularity: 3.577
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1900-07-26
  • Place of Birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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  • Also Known As: Károly Vidor, Karoly Vidor
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Charles Vidor Movies

  • 1932
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    The Mask of Fu Manchu

    The Mask of Fu Manchu

    5.487 1932 HD

    The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an...

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  • 1946
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    Gilda

    Gilda

    7.5 1946 HD

    A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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  • 1944
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    Cover Girl

    Cover Girl

    6.4 1944 HD

    A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

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  • 1933
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    Sensation Hunters

    Sensation Hunters

    2 1933 HD

    Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of...

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  • 1944
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    Together Again

    Together Again

    5.4 1944 HD

    Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on...

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  • 1955
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    Love Me or Leave Me

    Love Me or Leave Me

    6.7 1955 HD

    A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to...

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  • 1939
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    Blind Alley

    Blind Alley

    5.6 1939 HD

    A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

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  • 1941
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    Ladies in Retirement

    Ladies in Retirement

    6.4 1941 HD

    Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit...

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  • 1956
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    The Swan

    The Swan

    6.9 1956 HD

    Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant...

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  • 1948
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    The Loves of Carmen

    The Loves of Carmen

    6.9 1948 HD

    Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

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  • 1952
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    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen

    6.258 1952 HD

    A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

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  • 1957
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    A Farewell to Arms

    A Farewell to Arms

    5.7 1957 HD

    An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to...

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  • 1951
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    It's a Big Country

    It's a Big Country

    5.3 1951 HD

    Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best...

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  • 1940
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    The Lady in Question

    The Lady in Question

    6.6 1940 HD

    When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

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  • 1941
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    New York Town

    New York Town

    10 1941 HD

    Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...

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  • 1945
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    Over 21

    Over 21

    4.7 1945 HD

    A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

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  • 1943
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    The Desperadoes

    The Desperadoes

    5.7 1943 HD

    Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and...

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  • 1954
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    Rhapsody

    Rhapsody

    6.692 1954 HD

    A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano...

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  • 1957
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    The Joker Is Wild

    The Joker Is Wild

    8.1 1957 HD

    Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the...

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  • 1960
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    Song Without End

    Song Without End

    4.8 1960 HD

    The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

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  • 1942
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    The Tuttles of Tahiti

    The Tuttles of Tahiti

    5.5 1942 HD

    After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming...

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  • 1939
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    Those High Grey Walls

    Those High Grey Walls

    6.2 1939 HD

    Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping...

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  • 1945
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    A Song to Remember

    A Song to Remember

    6.1 1945 HD

    Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him...

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  • 1929
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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    6.385 1929 HD

    A condemned man manages to avoid being hanged from a bridge over a river when the rope breaks. He falls into the water and his escape attempt ensues.

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  • 1935
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    Strangers All

    Strangers All

    5.5 1935 HD

    Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

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  • 1935
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    The Arizonian

    The Arizonian

    1 1935 HD

    Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore...

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  • 1936
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    Muss 'em Up

    Muss 'em Up

    5.5 1936 HD

    Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's...

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  • 1952
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    Thunder in the East

    Thunder in the East

    4.9 1952 HD

    During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich....

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  • 1934
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    Double Door

    Double Door

    6.8 1934 HD

    A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy...

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  • 1940
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    My Son, My Son!

    My Son, My Son!

    4.3 1940 HD

    A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled...

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  • 1937
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    She's No Lady

    She's No Lady

    1 1937 HD

    Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself....

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  • 1935
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    His Family Tree

    His Family Tree

    4.5 1935 HD

    A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.

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  • 1948
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    The Loves of Carmen

    The Loves of Carmen

    6.9 1948 HD

    Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

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  • 1937
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    The Great Gambini

    The Great Gambini

    6 1937 HD

    A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler,...

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  • 1932
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    Me and My Gal

    Me and My Gal

    6.5 1932 HD

    Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

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  • 1939
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    Romance of the Redwoods

    Romance of the Redwoods

    6 1939 HD

    June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on...

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  • 1937
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    A Doctor's Diary

    A Doctor's Diary

    10 1937 HD

    A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for...

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  • 1931
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    Good Sport

    Good Sport

    4.5 1931 HD

    Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.

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  • 1929
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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    6.385 1929 HD

    A condemned man manages to avoid being hanged from a bridge over a river when the rope breaks. He falls into the water and his escape attempt ensues.

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