King Vidor

King Vidor was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1894, and at the age of six survived the hurricane of 1900, which killed about eight thousand people there. As an adolescent, he was a ticket collector and a projectionist, then the Texas correspondent of a newsreel. He reached Hollywood in 1915 at the wheel of a Model T Ford. In 1925, he gave MGM its greatest commercial success of the silent era. His career lasted sixty-seven years; he taught cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles, received an honorary Oscar in 1979 and died in Paso Robles, California, in 1982.

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• CinemaThe CrowdKing Vidor · 1928Cinema