Vidor
Americannoun
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King (Wallis), 1895–1982, U.S. motion-picture director and producer.
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a town in SE Texas.
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By not winning this year, he joined Robert Altman, Clarence Brown, Alfred Hitchcock and King Vidor as the most-nominated people in the directing category without a win.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025
Crain had just graduated from high school in her hometown of Vidor, Texas, in May of 2023 when she learned that she was pregnant.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024
Cornerback Kindle Vidor fell just as Prescott was throwing deep to a sprinting Lamb, who caught the ball near midfield and cruised to the end zone.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023
Vidor emphasized the faces of his characters, Sarris wrote, rather than pictorialism and spectacle.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
On the 11th, Don Joam de Sousa, the Queen's Vidor, came from her Majesty to us both to welcome us into the country.
From Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Fanshawe, Anne Harrison, Lady
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