Vidor: The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.
Vidor detested wearing pajamas.
Vidor stood 5 feet, 11 inches tall in his prime.
Vidor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6741 Hollywood Boulevard.
Vidor was head of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1962.
Vidor was president of the Screen Director's Guild from 1936 to 1938.
Vidor began his cinematic career as a movie projectionist at a Galveston, TX movie theatre.
The town of Vidor, TX was named for Vidor's father.
Vidor's parents were Charles Shelton and Katie Lee Vidor.
Vidor cast actress wife Eleanor Boardman as the female lead in his 1928 masterpiece The Crowd.
Vidor was married to Elizabeth Hill from 1932 until her death in 1978 although the couple was estranged for the last 10 year's of Vidor's life.
Vidor was married to Florence Arto from 1917 to 1924. They had a daughter named Suzanne.
Vidor is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the longest career as a film director at 67 years.
In 1967, Vidor did research into the unsolved 1922 murder of fellow silent director William Desmond Taylor because he intended to make a film about the case.
Vidor received an honorary Academy Award in 1979.
Vidor's two masterpieces are considered to be the silent films The Big Parade and The Crowd.
The first film Vidor ever directed was a short piece entitled Hurricane in Galveston in 1913.
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