Director Frank Borzage won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Director for 7th Heaven, perhaps the purest expression of his romantic concerns. Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor star as a street cleaner and a gamine who create their own private heaven on the seventh-floor garret of a Paris tenement that not even the horrors of WWI can completely penetrate.
Production: Fox Film Corp. Distribution: Fox Film Corp. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the play Seventh Heaven by Austin Strong. Scenario: Benjamin Glazer. Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer. Editor: Katherine Hilliker. With: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, David Butler, Marie Mosquini. 35mm, b/w, silent with sync score and effects, 110 min.
