Word: boyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berman has sentimental Charles Boyer eyes, is also known for his Quiz-Kid memory, his eloquence and his highly unsentimental political skill. The current renaissance of Poland's traditionally virulent anti-Semitism increases his unpopularity (Berman is a Jew), but his power is enormous. No document moves in. or out of the Premier's office without his O.K., and foreign diplomats, when stymied elsewhere, go to him for decisive action. A foreign visitor once called him: "A Harry Hopkins without a Roosevelt." The comparison applies to Berman's behind-the-scenes role, not to his objectives...
While Constable Earp did his bit, the Lamar City Council and Chamber of Commerce continued to search for someone to erect two neon signs at the city limits. Said Businessman Gordon Boyer...
...hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
...Ernst Lubitsch a good movie director and producer? One of the best: "Ninotchka" and "Heaven Can Wait" are typical products of the "Lubitsch touch." And is Jennifer Jones a good actress? Yes, and as beautiful as her co-star, Charles Boyer. This fellow Samuel Hoffenstein, can he write? Like a Parker 51. Then how come "Cluny Brown" is such a bum picture...
...about a maid with a yen for fixing plumbing and an over-frank manner in the presence of superiors gets stuck in an under brush of plot complications. Given this bad material to work with, Lubitsch has made the worst of it. He has miscast both Miss Jones and Boyer in light comedy parts, and his attempts at satirizing English high-life seem ponderous, especially when handled by Peter Lawford and Helen Walker. Add to this a further attempt at satire in the person of a priggish druggist which comes out sinister rather than funny, and you have most...