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Another Life
A Memoir of Other People
By MICHAEL KORDA
Random House
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I was twenty-three before it occurred to me that my future might not lie in the movie business.
Until then, I had always taken it for granted that I would follow in my family's footsteps sooner or later. Admittedly, I did not seem to have those gifts that had made my father, Vincent, a world-famous art director, nor did I flatter myself that I had the monumental self-confidence that had made my Uncle Alex a successful film director at the age of twenty-one and a legendary producer and film entrepreneur before he was thirty. As for my Uncle Zoltan, the middle of the three Korda brothers, the steely determination to have his own way that was at the very heart of his genius as a film director had not, I had guessed even as a child, been granted me in my cot. The brothers were, in any case, each unique and inimitable, with their strange accents, their many
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Country Matters
Perennial
Copyright ©2004Michael KordaAll right reserved.
ISBN: 0060957484
Chapter One
"He Don't Know Shit About Septics"
Twenty-One Years Ago, when my wife, Margaret, and I first moved up to the country from New York City and bought an eighteenth century farmhouse in Pleasant Valley, New York, not far from Poughkeepsie, we didn't give much thought to our new neighbors, who were mostly hardworking dairy farmers of seventeenth-century Dutch or English stock and, while not exactly unfriendly, were reluctant to enter into conversation with people who didn't raise Holsteins and weren't interested in the price of milk.
Along with the house, we acquired (or were acquired by) a bluff, jovial, pink-cheeked old man in his late sixties named Harold Roe, a local who mowed lawns and was reputedly handy with a backhoe, a bush hog, a York rake, and a dozer blade -- all object
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Alexander Korda
British bio director (1893–1956)
The native struktur of this personal name is Korda Sándor. This article uses Western name beställning when mentioning individuals.
Sir Alexander Korda | |
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Korda in 1936 | |
| Born | Sándor László Kellner (1893-09-16)16 September 1893 Pusztatúrpásztó, Austria-Hungary (today part of Túrkeve, Hungary) |
| Died | 23 January 1956(1956-01-23) (aged 62) Kensington, London, England |
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| Years active | 1914–1955 |
| Spouses | Maria Farkas (m. 1919; div. 1930)Merle Oberon (m. 1939; div. 1945)Alexandra Boycun (m. 1953) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Zoltan Korda (brother) Vincent Korda (brother) Michael Korda (nephew) Chris Korda (great-niece) |
Sir Alexander Korda (; born Sándor László Kellner; Hungarian: Korda S