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Frank Lloyd: Q&A with Anthony Slide

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Frank Lloyd, Henry King, John Ford, Frank Borzage Among them, these four filmmakers share eight Oscar wins and four additional nominations Frank Lloyd Intro II First of all, why Frank Lloyd? An obvious response might be "why not?" While large, trade publishers are suffering from diminishing sales, it seems that "small" publishers and similar entities, including the "vanity press" and the self-publishing brigade, are expanding their activities and concentrating on many obscure figures from Hollywood history. As a result, a number of prominent "names" have fallen by the wayside. With the relatively recent publication of Michael Sragow’s biography of Victor Fleming, the man responsible for Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, it seems only appropriate to devote some space [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Frank Lloyd: Master Of Screen Melodrama

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Milton Sills in The Sea Hawk (top); William Farnum in A Tale of Two Cities (bottom) Frank Lloyd Intro I: Two-Time Oscar Winner Unlike George Cukor, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, William Wyler, or even John Ford, Frank Lloyd specialized in one movie genre: melodrama. From A Tale of Two Cities to Cavalcade, from The Sea Hawk to The Howards of Virginia, from Black Oxen to Blood on the Sun, the vast majority of Lloyd’s movies were supposed to make you leave the theater at least a little shaken up after having suffered for a couple of hours with Pauline Frederick, Norma Talmadge, Milton Sills, Clara Bow, Richard Barthelmess, Ann Harding, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, or James [...] »

- Andre Soares

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