The UCLA Film and Television Archives Presents: “7th Heaven: The Films of Frank Borzage“
Lucky Star (1929)
A pastoral melodrama that director Frank Borzage whips into soaring romantic rapture, Lucky Star reteams Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell as a simple farm girl and wounded WWI vet whose love for each other overcomes all odds. Borzage’s bathes the film’s deeply evocative stage sets with his trademark chiaroscuro lighting and soft-focus to surpass even 7th Heaven’s sense of otherworldly grace.Production: Fox Film Corp. Distribution: Fox Film Corp. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on a story by Tristram Tupper. Scenario: Sonya Levien. Dialogue: John Hunter Booth. Cinematographer: William Cooper Smith. Art Director: Harry Oliver. Editor: Katherine Hilliker, H. H. Caldwell. With: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn Big Boy Williams, Paul Fix, Hedwig Reicher. 35mm, b/w, silent, 85 min.
Live musical accompaniment will be provided by Cliff Retallick.
The River (1929)
Production: Fox Film Corp. Distribution: Fox Film Corp. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the novelThe River by Tristram Tupper. Scenario: Philip Klein, Dwight Cummins. Dialogue: John Hunter Booth. Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer. Editor: Barney Wolf. With: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann, Alfred Sabato. Digibeta, b/w, silent with sync score and effects, 55 min.