Word: boyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circus high-wire walker (Charles Boyer) dreams of falling from his wire toward a girl he has never seen. He meets the dream girl (Barbara Stanwyck), falls for her harder than the dream foretold...
This time Joan Fontaine is Tessa, the nubile nymph doomed to love in vain (in Switzerland and England) for 105 cineminutes, and to expire of excess happiness and a heart attack inside of one. Charles Boyer is egocentric Composer Dodd, who does not notice that little Tessa is growing up and in love with him. Alexis Smith is his icy socialite wife, who does notice...
...child, Joan Fontaine is a little matronly. But her scenes are memorable in proportion to their painfulness. As death approaches in the Dodds' luxurious London mansion, Cinemactress Fontaine achieves some first-rate emotional acting. So does Charles Boyer. Boyer's chief dramatic assets are commonly believed to be his spaniel eyes and the veins in his temples. The flat fact is that romantic Cinemactor Boyer has forgotten more tricks of acting-or just standing still-than many of his colleagues will ever learn...
Beauty & the Beast. It was simple enough, from Miss Bergman's point of view. Look at Charles Boyer since he went to the States, tiptoeing his great abilities across roles too thin to support a minimum human intelligence. Look at all the individual talents, as inimitable and irreplaceable as thumbprints, which had been turned into just so many highly decorative zombies. "Hollywood," she told the press, "has a queer way of taking an individual and fitting her into the American mold. I have worked hard to develop my style and I don't want anything to do with...
When the soldiers at Camp Barkeley, Tex. saw a clinch interrupted in the movie Forest Rangers, they yelled "As you were!" Hedy Lamarr's sinuous maneuvers against Richard Carlson in White Cargo brought forth wolf howls in low register. When Charles Boyer laid hands on Rita Hayworth in Tales of Manhattan, only to unhand her and start over again, one impatient soldier yelled, "For crying out loud! Stop wasting our time!" The U.S. fighting forces take active pleasure in the motion picture...