Movies
Frank Borzage had a way with love stories, and audiences responded. A UCLA film series revisits his work, as well as foreign directors’ emulations.
Oct. 26, 2003
Director Frank Borzage was in love with love.
July 4, 2015
Three film greats: Fox, Murnau and Borzage. A new DVD collection looks at the era when their work overlapped.
Dec. 7, 2008
This week’s highlights at the UCLA Film Archives’ Festival of Preservation include TV science documentaries by Frank Capra, newly refurbished classics by Frank Borzage, Michael Powell and David Lean--and a major discovery of a work by a woman filmmaker, until now all but lost to film history.
July 23, 1990
Inevitably, the UCLA Film Archive’s retrospective to Frank Borzage is subtitled “American Romantic.”
April 7, 1986
When Janet Gaynor was awarded the very first best-actress Oscar in 1928, it was for her work in three films.
May 9, 1991
“Three Comrades” (1937) and “The Shining Hour” (1938), which screen Thursday at 7:30 at UCLA Melnitz, suggest that director Frank Borzage’s move to MGM from Paramount was a mixed blessing.
May 19, 1986
Catherine McLeod, 75, film and television actress introduced as a leading lady in the 1946 “I’ve Always Loved You.”
May 17, 1997
“Desire” (1936) represents Hollywood at its timeless, beloved best.
May 12, 1986
Of the three Frank Borzage films screening Thursday at Melnitz Theater in the UCLA “Film Archives” retrospective of the director’s work, the best known is his 1932 film of Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms,” which memorably starred Gary Cooper as the American ambulance driver in World War I who falls in love with an English nurse (Helen Hayes, in perhaps her best screen performance).
April 28, 1986