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Korda made two more sound films at First National: Her Private Life ( 1929 ) and Lilies of the Field ( 1930 ), both of which were remakes of earlier silent films.
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Korda and made
During the next eleven years, Korda made films in several countries, working in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris before eventually moving to Hollywood.
Korda made his final German film Madame Wants No Children ( 1926 ) for the American studio's Fox's Berlin-based subsidiary.
The first American film Korda made, in 1927, was a drama titled The Stolen Bride.
Pickford produced a few films, and at various times Goldwyn, Korda, Walt Disney, Walter Wanger, and David O. Selznick were made " producing partners " ( i. e., sharing in the profits ), but ownership still rested with the founders.
In 1947 she made An Ideal Husband in Britain for Alexander Korda films, being accompanied on a publicity trip to Brussels by Clarissa Churchill, niece of Sir Winston and future wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden.
Feyder accepted an invitation to work in England for Alexander Korda, for whom he made Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ), but made it possible for Carné to take over his project, Jenny ( 1936 ), as its director.
After Powell had made two further films for Korda, he was reunited with Pressburger in 1940 for Contraband, the first in a run of Powell and Pressburger films set during the Second World War.
Her peak of success came with the landmark fantasy film The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ), which she made for Alexander Korda.
In the week before the 1999 Australian Open was due to start, the ITF announced that they had " made a mistake " in not suspending Korda after the failed drugs test and would be seeking to overturn the ruling of their own appeals committee and impose a 12 month ban on Korda, although Korda was free to continue playing tennis in the meantime.
Engaged by Korda, Scott made three pictures for London Films:
He made contributions to several Jacques Feyder films, Le Grand Jeu ( 1934 ), La Kermesse héroïque ( Carnival in Flanders ) ( 1935 ), Die Klugen Frauen ( 1936 ) and Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ), his first under producer Alexander Korda in England.
Korda and two
The critic Robert Irwin singles out the two versions of The Thief of Baghdad ( 1924 version directed by Raoul Walsh ; 1940 version produced by Alexander Korda ) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il fiore delle Mille ed una notte ( 1974 ) as ranking " high among the masterpieces of world cinema.
While the film is neither " the full story of Lawrence's life or a completely accurate account of the two years he spent fighting with the Arabs ," Korda argues that criticizing its inaccuracy " misses the point ": " The object was to produce, not a faithful docudrama that would educate the audience, but a hit picture.
20th Century Fox negotiated with Korda to borrow him for this film and a further two at $ 50, 000 a film.
He was now established as one of Britain's biggest stars and Korda announced plans to feature him in two films based on true stories, one about the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown in 1919 co-starring Denholm Elliot, and the other Clifton James, the double for Field Marshall Montgomery.
In January 1936, Clair visited America for two weeks, checking out for future employment possibilities but still planning to remain with Korda.
In the early years Korda was most interested in fashion because it allowed him to pursue his two favorite things, photography and beautiful women.
Korda was involved in four Grand Slam finals during his career — two in singles and two in doubles.
Korda also released two longplayers and six singles and EPs on different labels such as DJ Hells imprint International DeeJay Gigolo Records.
In 1997 Wincott starred in two action films, Metro opposite Eddie Murphy as Michael Korda, a jewel thief, and as Frank Elgyn, an intergalactic transport ship captain, in Alien: Resurrection.
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Korda and more
Korda grew gradually more frustrated in Hollywood as he came to strongly dislike the studio system.
This unique creativity turned the Korda Studio into something more than just a prosperous business ; it became an art studio.
For Castro, Korda was more than an official photographer, a friend or personal photographer.
Michael Korda was a major part of Simon & Schuster for more than forty years and one of the most influential people in the business of book publishing.
Korda and sound
Although, like many other directors, Korda had misgivings about the new technology he quickly adapted to making sound films.
In 1935 he began working for director and producer Alexander Korda on a colour cartoon film with sound, The Fox Hunt.
Korda and films
His film career took him to Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on some of the most notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII.
The first was his mentor and collaborator, Sir Alexander Korda in 1942, who had also been closely involved in the production of some of Reed's most admired films.
Korda went to work at the Pedagogical Studio in Budapest and co-directed three films with Gyula Zilahy.
The film was a major international success and inspired Korda with the idea of making " international films " with global box office appeal.
Korda had cast his wife Maria Corda as the female lead in all his German-language films and to a large degree his productions depended on her star power.
She became increasingly resentful of the switch in the dynamic of their relationship as her career was now over while Korda, who had once relied on her for the production of his films, was relatively flourishing.
A silent version, much abridged, was produced, as one of his first films, by Alexander Korda in Austria in 1920 under the title Der Prinz und der Bettelknabe.
Although he had appeared in several films during the 1930s, it was only after World War II that he began to build a successful career in the cinema ; he signed a three-year film contract with Alexander Korda and later switched to Rank, ceasing to appear on the stage after 1951.
Sagan briefly worked on films with Alexander Korda in England, but then moved to South Africa and founded the National Theatre of Johannesburg.
Born in London, England, Hunt had an uncle in the film industry who was able to find him work on some films, cutting as an assistant editor under Alexander Korda.
Michael Powell was already an experienced director, having worked his way up from making silent films to the First World War drama The Spy in Black ( 1939 ), his first film for Hungarian émigré producer Alexander Korda.
In the mid-50s they formed a partnership with Alex Korda helping him finance his films.
Due to the erotic nature of these films, Soledad took the stage name Susann Korda ( alternately spelled Susan Korday ).
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The following year, Burton signed a five-year contract with Alexander Korda at £ 100 a week, launching his Hollywood career.
One of Anderson's first producers at EMI was songwriter Paul Korda.
Merle Oberon became Lady Korda upon her husband's knighthood in 1942, when the couple were based at Hills House in Denham, England.
He won his third and final Grand Slam doubles title at Australian Open with Petr Korda. He reached Quarterfinals of his last US open after Defeating Richard Krajeck & Tim Henman but lost the QF to Goran Ivansevic.
More signed a five year contract with Sir Alexander Korda at £ 10, 000 a year.
The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 2003 BAFTA Awards and was featured at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
A Paris court ( tribunal de grande instance ) ordered RWB to pay 6, 000 Euros to the daughter and heir of Alberto Korda for non-compliance with a court order of 9 July 2003 banning it from using Korda's famous ( and copyrighted ) photograph of Ernesto " Che " Guevara in a beret, taken at the funeral of La Coubre victims.
Korda began his career as a photographer who shot pictures at banquets, baptisms and weddings.
It was the money generated by these jobs that allowed Korda to develop his unique style of looking at an image from another angle, different from the traditional photographer ’ s studios.
As Revolution photographer Korda always worked at his own photographic tempo.
Other less-known Fidel Castro images by Korda include shots of Castro staring warily at a tiger in a New York zoo, playing golf and fishing with Che Guevara, skiing and hunting in Russia, and with Ernest Hemingway.
In March 2010, an original proof of this 1960 Korda photo of Che Guevara fishing with Fidel Castro, sold at auction for £ 6, 600.
Having read the book, Rank decided that it would mamake an excellent family-friendly British film in answer to the Hollywood-style movies that Alexander Korda was making at the Denham Film Studios.
The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards, and was declared Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy Awards.
Contraband was intended as a followup to Powell and Pressburger's The Spy in Black, which was filmed at the end of 1938, but was not released by Alexander Korda for almost a year.
The Small Back Room marked the return of Powell and Pressburger to Alexander Korda after a profitable but somewhat contentious time at The Rank Organisation.
Korda took charge of her career after this point and took her to Hollywood where he set her asking price at $ 50, 000 per film.
In 1990, Korda and Goran Ivanišević finished runners-up in the men's doubles at the French Open.
At four tournaments in 1998, Korda had the World No. 1 ranking in his sights, but he lost to Karol Kučera in Antwerp, Marcelo Ríos at Indian Wells, Tim Henman in Miami and Richard Krajicek in Monte Carlo.
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