Directors Guild of America

7920 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046

1985

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Bronze

16 in. tall

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The Director’s Guild of America

Located at the DGA, in good condition as of January 2024, according to the DGA receptionist.

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 “After a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel about the cuts called by the Academy, about six or eight directors congregated on the sidewalk outside the hotel. "The realization was very strong," Vidor recalled, "that we must have an organization to speak for us...The Screen Directors Guild was incorporated on Jan. 13, 1936, and its 29 members elected Vidor as their first president...in two years membership rose to about 600, including virtually every active director and assistant director...

 ...His film Our Daily Bread (1934)...is cited as a rare example of socialism in American film...We are close here to the contradictory temperament of King Vidor, a populist on one hand but the director of The Fountainhead (1949) on the other, and, in 1944, a founding member of the anti-Communist group the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.” [1]

[1] David Thomson, “The Man Who Would be King,” Directors Guild of America, Winter 2011, https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1004-Winter-2010-11/Interview-King-Vidor.aspx. Last accessed December 24, 2023.