Hold Back the Dawn: Olivia de Havilland with co-stars Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard. ‘Hold Back the Dawn’ 1941 movie: Olivia de Havilland steals show as small-town teacher in love Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen’s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of…
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Edmund Goulding’s 1943 romantic drama The Constant Nymph, starring Oscar nominee Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, and Alexis Smith, will be shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 5 p.m. PT as part of TCM’s tribute to the Library of Congress Film Archive. Tied up in…
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Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of 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…
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1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, that year’s eventual winner. 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees on TCM Turner Classic Movies’ homage to the 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees continues this evening, Feb. 12, ’11, with three more entries: Victor…
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Crossfire movie. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by John Paxton, and produced by Adrian Scott, Crossfire (1947) will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood’s Dark Side” on Monday,…
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Love Affair 1939 with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. 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,…
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Charles Boyer. When I hear the name Charles Boyer, who is currently (July 2008) being honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) with the series “The Discreet Charm of Charles Boyer,” I immediately think of my maternal grandmother, who was a fan…
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Hedy Lamarr biography: Discussing Charles Boyer’s romantic interest in in Algiers. See previous post: 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…
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Gaslighting abuse: Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight. Though remembered for his female-centered dramas and comedies (Camille, The Women, A Woman’s Face, etc.) and for being what’s derisively called a “woman’s director” (Constance Bennett, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, et al.), George Cukor was both…