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Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the often-tragic life of this often overlooked, yet profoundly impactful French actor. Baxter relates how Boyer (1899–1978) established himself in the theater and cinema of France, confidently transitioning from silent film to sound and making a name for himself as a romantic leading man in Hollywood through the early 1940s. During World War II, Boyer put his career on hold to become politically active on behalf of his occupied home country. Upon returning to the stage and screen, Boyer adapted effortlessly to postwar character roles in both Europe...
Charles Boyer
CHARLES BOYERThe French LoverIl était une fois... Un jeune provincial, né dans une sous-préfecture reculée du Quercy, qui quitta un jour le domicile familial pour mener - selon les voeux de sa mère - des études de philosophie à Paris.Mais l'envie de monter sur les planches était plus forte que celle de devenir enseignant, membre honorable de la fonction publique.Du théâtre, l'envie passa à la pratique du cinéma, muet d'abord, parlant ensuite. Et notre comédien, doté d'un physique séduisant, d'une voix envoûtante, d'un jeu de scène varié, devint bientôt vedette.Marc Allégret, Julien Duvivier, Marcel L'Herbier, John Huston, Vincente Minelli, Otto Preminger, sans oublier...
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the often-tragic life of this often overlooked, yet profoundly impactful French actor. Baxter relates how Boyer (1899–1978) established himself in the theater and cinema of France, confidently transitioning from silent film to sound and making a name for himself as a romantic leading man in Hollywood through the early 1940s. During World War II, Boyer put his career on hold to become politically active on behalf of his occupied home country. Upon returning to the stage and screen, Boyer adapted effortlessly to postwar character roles in both Europe...
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Another Country, Another Life
A young law clerk from England falls in love in 19th-century New York and reinvents himself in Canada. Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home — the remote wilderness of Muskoka — he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, Another Life, his great-grandson traces that long-hidden journey, exposing Isaac Jelfs’ covered tracks and the reasons for his double life.
Conquest
A historical portrayal of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer) from 1807 through 1815 and his romantic involvement with Polish Countes Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo), who bore him a son, Alexandre (Scotty Beckett), and the eventual ending of their relationship. The story begins in Poland in 1807 and continues through the departure of Napoleon from France in 1815.
History's Child
Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village; he is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence
Billy Wilder
This biography of director Billy Wilder (""Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot"") contains movie posters, a bibliography and a complete filmography.
