KORDA, Vince
(1897, Pusztatúrpásztó - 1979, Chelsea)



Stage-designer, brother of Sándor and Zoltán Korda. He moved to Budapest in 1909. After the final examinations, he enrolled in the Art School. On graduating, he lived in Nagybánya, Vienna, Florence and Paris. Of his pictures, the portrait of Attila József, a poet, is a major one.

He settled down in England after he had been invited by Sándor, his brother, a film-director himself. He became an assistant of Alfred Jung. From 1939 onwards he was the art director of London Film. He designed sceneries for films directed by his brother and was, in fact, one of the most ingenious stage-designers of English and American films. He married Gertrude Lawrence, an English film actress.

His major films: "Marius" (English - French, 1931), "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (English, 1933), "The Ghost Goes West" (English, 1935), "The Red Pimpernel" (English, 1935), "Rembrandt" (English, 1936), "The Four Feathers" (English, 1938), "The Thief of Baghdad" (English, 1940), "That Hamilton Woman" (American, 1942), "To Be or Not To Be" (American, 1942), "The Jungle Book" (American, 1942), "The Ideal Husband" (English, 1948), "The Deep Blue Sea" (American, 1955), "The Longest Day" (American, 1962), and "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" (English, 1965).



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