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...TIME, Dec. 15, 1941)-the story of a Victorian husband who systematically sets to work to drive his lovely young wife insane. Hollywood's husband is not quite so icily satanic, his wife not excruciatingly demoralized, as in the original. But as acted by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and directed by George Cukor, Hollywood's ace manipulator of emotional actresses and lacy decor (Camille), Gaslight is still a fierce, hair-raising, handsome piece of psychological horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...South Pacific base: Hold Back the Dawn, wherein the sheep-eyed Mr. Charles Boyer repeatedly repels a beautiful, though patently wicked, brunette (to the hoots of its sailor audience who had not seen a white woman in a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Better Movies Overseas? | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...production stole no scenes from the Free Worlders. More than 300 of screendom's best-dressed thinkers, from Jack Benny's Rochester to Thomas Mann, turned up to hear Henry Wallace. Marquee names on the committee included Jimmy Cagney, veteran Hollywood labor leader, Rosalind Russell and Charles Boyer. Heading them all was Dudley Nichols, who wrote the screen version of The Bell, and put in it what little antiFascism finally peeped through the Technicolor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Battle of Hollywood | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Born. To Cinemactor Charles Boyer, 45, and Pat Patterson Boyer, 32, Yorkshire-born onetime cinemactress: a son, their first child; after ten years of marriage; in Los Angeles. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Robinson and by its continual wise-cracking turns the story into a parody in spite of the intentions of the writer and the efforts of the actor. The third story, by avoiding the obvious and the general in its script, is by far the best of the lot. Charles Boyer, as a tight-rope performer, has a role second only to Betty Field's female Scrooge, and Barbara Stanwyek gives him compotent support. The plot has its intriguing angle and even succeeds in making itself seem plausible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 12/14/1943 | See Source »

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