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Sir Alexander Korda became one of the world's most respected filmmakers but how did the word-famous director-producer get into filmmaking? This short documen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Korda
Sir Alexander Korda (/ ˈ k ɔːr d ə /; born Sándor László Kellner; Hungarian: Korda Sándor; 16 September 1893 - 23 January 1956) was a Hungarian-born British film director, producer, and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company.. Born in Hungary, where he began his career, he worked briefly in the Austrian and German film industries

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Korda
Sir Alexander Korda (born Sept. 16, 1893, Pusztatúrpásztó, Hung.—died Jan. 23, 1956, London, Eng.) was a Hungarian-born British motion-picture director and producer who made major contributions to the development of Britain's film industry.. Before he was 20 years old he was working as a journalist in Budapest, and in 1914 he started the film periodical Pesti Mozi ("Budapest Cinema").

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-director-who-kick-started-british-film-and-coordinated-wwii-spies/
Seventy-seven years later, Sir Alexander Korda is being remembered throughout January with a British Film Institute season of some of his best-known films, big hits across the world in the 1930s

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Alexander Korda. Producer: The Private Life of Don Juan. One of a large group of Hungarian refugees who found refuge in England in the 1930s, Sir Alexander Korda was the first British film producer to receive a knighthood. He was a major, if controversial, figure and acted as a guiding force behind the British film industry of the 1930s and continued to influence British films until his death

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Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born filmmaker who flourished as a producer in the United States and England. Alexander Korda: Biography. Independent Profile. by J. A. Aberdeen. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a

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Alexander Korda. Producer: The Private Life of Don Juan. One of a large group of Hungarian refugees who found refuge in England in the 1930s, Sir Alexander Korda was the first British film producer to receive a knighthood. He was a major, if controversial, figure and acted as a guiding force behind the British film industry of the 1930s and continued to influence British films until his death

https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/alexander-korda-winston-churchill-changed-british-cinema
Hungarian émigré Alexander Korda arrived in London in the early 1930s and transformed the fortunes of British cinema. He established his production company, London Films, built a huge studio complex at Denham in Buckinghamshire, and made some of the most ambitious and visionary feature films Britain had ever seen.

https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2490-alexander-korda
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir Alexander Korda (/ˈkɔːrdə/; born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 - 23 January 1956) was a British film producer and director and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company. Born in Hungary, where he began his career, he worked briefly in the Austrian and German film industries during the

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446996/
Director, Producer, Executive Producer. Alexander Korda remains an elusive figure and there are still arguments over whether he should best be considered a charlatan or a visionary. Born Sándor László Kellner on 16 September 1893 in Puszta Turpásztó, an isolated village in Hungary, his family was plunged into poverty when his father, an overseer on a large estate, died.

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Alexander Korda arrived in Britain having already established himself as a successful film-maker in Hungary. He first became fascinated with film-making during his time in Paris in 1911, where he worked for Pathé Studios. ... Murphy, Robert, 'Korda, Sir Alexander (1893-1956)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University

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KORDA, SIR ALEXANDERKORDA, SIR ALEXANDER (1893-1956), film producer. Born Sandor Laszlo Kellner in Hungary, Korda worked for Hungarian newspapers, but in 1915 became a stagehand in a Budapest film studio and went on to writing and directing. After World War i he moved to Vienna, Rome, the ufa studios in Berlin, and then to Hollywood. Source for information on Korda, Sir Alexander

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-british-jewish-filmmaker.html
But BFI's season for Korda doesn't stop with his impressive cinematic portfolio. The Institute is also making viewers aware of the other side of Korda - the Hungarian Jewish emigré who managed spies for the British government during World War II. Alexander Korda in 1936. In the late 1930s, Korda employed a screenwriter named Winston

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/04/archives/like-a-korda-film-korda.html
By Michael Korda. Illustrated. 498 pp. New York: Random House. $15. Alex Korda dominates "Charmed Lives," but the portrait is not entirely adoring. Michael Korda sees his uncle's flaws and

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1020-behind-the-third-man
Behind. The Third Man. By Charles Drazin. May 21, 2007. I n January 1948, British film producer Sir Alexander Korda, head of British-Lion and London Film Productions, commissioned novelist Graham Greene to write and research "an original postwar continental story to be based on either or both of the following territories: Vienna, Rome.".

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news-the-remarkable-life-of-film-direcotr-alexander-korda-who-shaped-70270/
Sir Alexander Korda reading a book on a couch, United Kingdom, 1948 (Photo by Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) - Credit: The LIFE Picture Collection via ... Director Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII was released in 1933 with Charles Laughton as the eponymous monarch. Korda had noted Laughton's talent

https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Alexander_Korda
Sir Alexander Korda (1893-1956) was a Hungarian-born British film producer and director. He worked in Hollywood the first time during the transition to "talkies", from 1926 to 1930. From 1930, Korda became a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p079jj8y
Higher quality (128kbps) Lower quality (64kbps) 19 May 2019. Available now. 44 minutes.

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-179/alexander-korda-churchills-man-hollywood/
In early 1935, Winston Churchill wrote an urgent letter to the Hungarian-born British film producer Alexander Korda. He had just completed a screenplay entitled The Reign of George V and was anxious that "not another day be lost in the preparation of the sets." 1 So confident was Churchill that he cautioned in the text of his screenplay, "the audience must have a chance to recover from

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Sir Alexander Korda (1893—1956) film producer and director Quick Reference (1893-1956) Film director and producer, born to a Jewish family in rural Hungary, the eldest of three sons (brothers Zoltan and Vincent often worked with him). Journalism led to reviewing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Korda
Born in London, Michael Korda is the son of English actress Gertrude Musgrove and the Hungarian-Jewish artist and film production designer Vincent Korda. He is the nephew of film magnate Sir Alexander Korda and his brother Zoltan Korda, both of whom were film directors. [1] Korda grew up in the UK but received part of his education in France

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1133-eclipse-series-16-alexander-korda-s-private-lives
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII: GRAND DESIGNS Alexander Korda's oeuvre is often characterized as larger-than-life, undoubtedly in part because the figures he was attracted to—kings and queens, legendary lovers and great artists—were often extraordinary. Though in his continent-­spanning, four-decade-long career as a writer, director, and producer Korda would make dozens of films, on

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a 1937 British fantasy comedy film directed by Lothar Mendes and produced by Alexander Korda. The film stars Roland Young with a cast of supporting players including Sir Ralph Richardson. Possibly the best-known of Mendes' 20 films,