Charles Vidor worked as a basso for the English Grand Opera Company.
34 Facts About Charles Vidor
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Charles Vidor was a chorus boy in Love Song and worked on Hudson Bay as a longshoreman.
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Charles Vidor went to Hollywood where he worked as Korda's assistant.
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Charles Vidor attracted acclaim for a low budget short he made in his spare time with his own money, The Bridge.
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Charles Vidor did some uncredited directing on MGM's The Mask of Fu Manchu.
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Charles Vidor's first credited feature as director was Sensation Hunters for Monogram Pictures.
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Charles Vidor went back to Paramount where he directed A Doctor's Diary, The Great Gambini, and She's No Lady.
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Charles Vidor signed with Columbia Pictures where he directed Romance of the Redwoods, Blind Alley and Those High Grey Walls.
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Charles Vidor took over from James Whale on They Dare Not Love and did Ladies in Retirement.
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Charles Vidor was loaned to Paramount to direct New York Town and RKO for The Tuttles of Tahiti.
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Back at Columbia, Charles Vidor directed the studio's first Technicolor movie, The Desperadoes.
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On June 11,1944 Charles Vidor signed a seven-year contract with Columbia.
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Charles Vidor did Together Again then made a biopic of Chopin, A Song to Remember, which was another big hit, and made a star of Cornel Wilde.
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Charles Vidor started directing The Guilt of Janet Ames, but fought with Cohn and was replaced during filming by Henry Levin.
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In 1946 Charles Vidor sued Columbia, seeking to be released from his contract and $78,000 in damages.
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The judge ruled against Charles Vidor, ordering him back to work.
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Charles Vidor began directing Ford and William Holden in The Man from Colorado but clashed with Cohn once more over the shooting schedule and was fired during filming for being too slow, being replaced by Levin.
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The matter settled and Charles Vidor was reunited with Hayworth and Ford for the expensive The Loves of Carmen.
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In 1948 Charles Vidor announced he had purchased rights to Sirocco, a French Foreign Legion tale based on the novel Coup de Grace he wanted to make with Rita Hayworth and Humphrey Bogart.
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Charles Vidor was preparing to do the film version of Born Yesterday and did a few days uncredited work on Under Cover Man.
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Charles Vidor refused to do it, Columbia put him on suspension, and Vidor told Columbia that he considered his contract with them at an end.
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In October 1949 Charles Vidor bought himself out of his contract for $75,000 at $15,000 a year for five years.
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Charles Vidor's career had two years to run, at $3,000 a week then $3,500 a week.
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In December 1949 Charles Vidor signed a contract with MGM to direct The Running of the Tide which was never made.
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Charles Vidor was one of several directors on MGM's It's a Big Country.
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Charles Vidor went to Paramount with a project he had developed himself, Thunder in the East, which starred Alan Ladd.
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At MGM Charles Vidor did a musical with Elizabeth Taylor, Rhapsody and a biopic of Ruth Etting, Love Me or Leave Me, a big success.
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Sinatra and Charles Vidor were going to reunite on Kings Go Forth but then David O Selznick hired Charles Vidor to make the troubled A Farewell to Arms, replacing John Huston.
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Charles Vidor's last film was an attempt to repeat the success of A Song to Remember, another biopic of a composer, in this case Liszt: Song Without End.
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Charles Vidor died of a heart attack three weeks into filming.
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Charles Vidor died at the age of 58 in Vienna, Austria, from a heart attack, reportedly in flagrante delicto with a bit player from the film he was directing at the time.
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Charles Vidor was in the midst of making Song Without End, and was replaced as director by George Cukor.
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Charles Vidor was entombed at Home of Peace Cemetery in the same mausoleum as Harry Warner.
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Charles Vidor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6676 Hollywood Boulevard for his contribution to motion pictures.