HOLD BACK THE DAWN – Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring’s story
Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp
Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn
Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen’s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket for the director’s World War II-era films.
Adapted by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett from Ketti Frings‘ semi-autobiographical story, Hold Back the Dawn stars Charles Boyer as George Iscovescu, a Romanian dancer unable to enter the U.S. from Mexico due to immigration quotas imposed at the onset of the European conflict.
Paulette Goddard is his scheming former partner, Anita, who marries an American to [...]
by Doug Johnson | November 13, 2009
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Tags: Billy Wilder, Charles Boyer, Charles Brackett, Classic Movies, Film Reviews, Hold Back the Dawn, Mitchell Leisen, Olivia de Havilland, Oscar 1941, Oscar Movies, Paulette Goddard
Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne in LOVE AFFAIR Screening
Love Affair, one of the 1939 Best Picture nominees, is next in line in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Prior to the film, beginning at 7 p.m., the sixth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the Warner Bros. Oscar-nominated cartoon Detouring America, directed by Tex Avery, will be screened.
Leo McCarey produced, directed and co-wrote (with Mildred Cram) the story for Love Affair (the actual screenplay was credited to Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart), a romantic [...]
by Andre Soares | June 16, 2009
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Tags: An Affair to Remember, Charles Boyer, Classic Movies, Donald Ogden Stewart, Irene Dunne, Leo McCarey, Los Angeles Screenings, Love Affair, Maria Ouspenskaya, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies
Hedy Lamarr III: CASABLANCA, Private Life
Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr in Algiers
Hedy Lamarr – Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part II
Is it true that Hedy Lamarr refused the lead roles in Casablanca, Gaslight, and Saratoga Trunk? If so, do you know what her reaction was after those three films became huge hits for Ingrid Bergman?
Let’s get one thing straight off the bat. Hedy Lamarr never turned down Casablanca.
L. B. had her solidly booked for several movies, two of which, I think, defined both her talent and her image. True, [producer] Hal Wallis wanted her for it, but Mayer said no as he had Tortilla Flat, Crossroads, and White Cargo already lined up.
Why should L. B. have loaned her over to [Warner [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007
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Tags: Casablanca, Charles Boyer, Classic Movies, Gaslight, Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman, Interviews, Patrick Agan, Saratoga Trunk, The Conspirators
GASLIGHT To Be Lit Again
Warner Bros. has begun developing a remake of Gaslight, the 1944 thriller directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer as a suave murderer and Ingrid Bergman as his naive — and quite wealthy — wife, who almost goes bananas before the final fadeout. The film received a total of seven Academy Award nominations: best picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actress (Angela Lansbury, in her film debut), and best screenplay (John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch, and John Van Druten), winning in the best actress and best art direction categories. Additionally, Bergman won a Golden Globe for what is one of the weakest performances of her career.
Also in the Gaslight cast were Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2006
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Tags: Anton Walbrook, Charles Boyer, Classic Movies, Crime Movies, Diana Wynyard, Gaslight, George Cukor, Ingrid Bergman, Joe Wright, Murder in Thornton Square
