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Frank Borzage (April 23, 1893 - June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.

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.

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.

Frank Borzage died in 1962 at the age of 69, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

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

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.)

He was an Italian American.

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.

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