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Frank Borzage Facts
| Sign | Taurus |
| Born |
Apr 23, 1893 Salt Lake City, UT |
| Died |
Jun 19, 1962 Hollywood, CA |
| Age | Died at 69 |
| Total Facts | 9 |
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 41-47. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
Brother of actor Danny Borzage.
Brother of assistant director Lew Borzage.
Directed 2 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Janet Gaynor, Margaret Sullavan. Gaynor won, Sullavan didn't.
First person to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director.
He separated from his wife in 1940. They divorced in 1941.
His father Luigi Borzaga (sic) was from Roncone in Trentino, then Austria-Hungary and his mother from Zurich, Switzerland. The family immigrated to the U.S. in Pennsylvania where his father worked as a coal miner for a time. The family then headed west to Wyoming and then to Salt Lake City where Frank was born.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA., in the Garden of Everlasting Peace.
Was a licensed pilot.