Word: boyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rare protection" is Hollywood's phrase for the kind of treatment Columbia has in store for its new star. Her salary, now $800 weekly, is due for a boost. She will also get star billing. At present she is scheduled to play opposite Charles Boyer in Tales of Manhattan, a lead in My Gal Sal, and the title role in My Sister Eileen. Then another musical with Fred Astaire...
...inevitable that Dr. Alexander and Playwright Andre Cassil (Charles Boyer) should meet. She tells him that his new play stinks, and he falls in love with her. She marries him. That settles nothing. The doctor insists on maintaining her separate individuality in a separate apartment. He reads her X-rays, she scans photos of his old loves, and Mother Nature triumphs in time for the final fadeout...
...eyed Charles Boyer, although his performance could not be called expansive, plays his accustomed role with some comedy and without undue strain. Earnest Margaret Sullavan manages to seem nubile as well as noble. On the whole, Appointment, like Bill Nye's appraisal of Wagner's music, is "better than it sounds...
...Charles Boyer is a past master of the smooth-talking, Continental style of love-making. He's been given cinematic chances to practice his technique on practically everybody from Austrian princesses to Hungarian dairy-maids. In "Hold Back the Dawn," he sets to world on an American school-teacher; his skill, incidently, is undiminished...
Cast as a romantic Rumanian gambler and lady-charmer, Boyer finds himself on the wrong side of the Mexican-California border, waiting for the papers which will enable him to cross the line. Discovering that marrying an American woman will speed up his visa, he sets out to make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard...