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Tough Decisions. Townsend's decision to retire even as a director on Oct. 1 caught the industry by surprise. At a Detroit press conference he rejected any suggestion that creditors or directors had hastened his departure. Later he expounded to TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer on the pressures of "14 stress-filled years" at the top: "I can't remember a day or week when I wasn't making decisions that would have an impact on this entire company. I never remember a period of relaxation when I wasn't concerned with some element of business...
...Stavisky's wife, is even thinner as a character; she is a walking, talking Vogue cover; a silent, cosmetically perfect femme fatale who faints at the proper time and ornaments Stavisky's life in the most necessary way. The center of sympathy in the film is Baron Raoul (Charles Boyer), an aristocrat whose purpose in life has been to dissipate a fabulous century-old fortune. "It was very satisfying," he says of this experience. He is old now, and penniless, with only his courtliness and wry smile left, but he defends his dead friend Stavisky before the Parliamentary inquiry much...
Ophuls's The Earrings of Madams de.... with Darrioux, Charles Boyer and Victoria de Sica, plus a Chaplin short, Sunday, March...
Died. Anatole Litvak, 72, Russian-born film director best known for the original version of Mayerling (1936), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, and The Snake Pit (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1948), starring Olivia de Havilland, which was acclaimed as Hollywood's first realistic examination of insanity; in Neuilly, France...
...Madwoman of Chaillot, with Hepburn, Boyer and Danny Kaye, Friday and Saturday...