- Two of Vidor's sons and one stepson were enormously successful in the restaurant business: Michael Vidor (mother actress Karen Morley) opened "L'Auberge," one of the first French restaurants in Portland, Oregon, while Brian Vidor (mother Warner Bros. heiress Doris Warner) runs "Typhoon," a fashionable restaurant at the Santa Monica airport in Los Angeles; Charles' stepson, Warner Leroy (mother Doris Warner, father director Mervyn LeRoy) owned New York's famous "Maxwell's Plum".
- Vidor's stepson, Warner LeRoy, designed the Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in Jackson, New Jersey.
- Vidor worked for many years at Columbia Pictures, although he did not get along particularly well with Harry Cohn, the studio owner. Cohn had a reputation as a crude and foul-mouthed man, in addition to being a vindictive one. Vidor tired of Cohn's constant swearing and profanity--much of it directed at him--and in 1946 he took Cohn to court in an attempt to get him to stop. He lost the case, and Cohn made his life a living hell until 1948, when Vidor bought out his contract for $75,000.
- Directed 3 actors to Oscar nominations: Cornel Wilde (Best Actor, A Song to Remember (1945)), James Cagney (Best Actor, Love Me or Leave Me (1955)), and Vittorio De Sica (Best Supporting Actor, A Farewell to Arms (1957)).
- Frequently worked with Rita Hayworth. He directed her in The Lady in Question (1940), Cover Girl (1944), Gilda (1946) and The Loves of Carmen (1948).
- Fought in the Hungarian army during World War I.
- The 2nd husband of Evelyn Keyes.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1958.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 1125-1130. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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