Charles Boyer Articles

Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber, East Side, West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel either to Venice or Telluride? Don’t despair. L.A. has its own glamorous film festival this weekend. It’s called Cinecon, now in its 47th year. What’s more: unlike the vast majority of movies screening at the more highly publicized Venice and Telluride [...]

Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (top); Greer Garson, Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips (middle); Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Love Affair (bottom) Turner Classic Movies‘ homage to the Best Picture Oscar nominees of 1939 continues this evening with three more entries: Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind, Sam Wood’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Leo McCarey’s Love Affair. If you haven’t watched all three [...]

HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941) Direction: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring’s story Oscar Movies Recommended Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard, Hold Back the Dawn Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen’s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket [...]

The Constant Nymph, Edmund Goulding’s hard-to-find 1943 romantic drama starring Charles Boyer and Joan Fontaine, is the highlight of the August 2010 screenings at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, Virg. [Full Schedule.] Joan Fontaine received her third and last Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as a teenager in love with a musician (Boyer). Rights issues have kept The Constant [...]