Biography: Charles Boyer |
With his passionate, deep-set eyes, classical features, and ultra-suave manner, it is small wonder that French actor Charles Boyer was known as one of the great cinematic lovers. During the 20s, Boyer made a few nondescript silent films but was... more
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Cast: Alain Resnais
Length: 115min
This film by French director Alain Resnais (Last Year in Marienbad) is loosely based on a true story from the 1930s about financier, con-man and swindler Stavisky who was arrested in 1934 for selling phony stock but was never brought to trial. While...
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn Edith Evans
Length: 142min
Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians. The madwoman in question is the extremely eccentric Countess...
Cast: Ingrid Bergman
Tags: Drama
Length: 99min
Singer and actress Liza Minnelli teamed up with her father, legendary director Vincente Minnelli, to make this evocative drama. Nina (Liza Minnelli) is a popular film star who, in the midst of a press conference, finds herself remembering her life...
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo Kirk Douglas Yves Montand Francis Ford Coppola
Tags: Ensemble Film War War Epic
Length: 173min
In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as...
Cast: Jane Fonda Robert Redford
Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 106min
Based on the hit Broadway play by Neil Simon, who made his screenwriting debut with this adaptation, Barefoot In The Park follows the lives of newlyweds Paul (Robert Redford) and Corie Bratter (Jane Fonda) as they adjust to married life in a tiny...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Cast: Vincente Minnelli
Length: 153min
There's a rumor that the MGM executive who thought that Glenn Ford could fill Rudolph Valentino's shoes in the 1962 remake of Valentino's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would have been arrested had it been sufficiently proven that he was competent to...
Cast: Rock Hudson
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 105min
A Very Special Favor stars Rock Hudson as a notorious romeo and Leslie Caron as a prudish psychiatrist. At the urging of Caron's lawyer father Charles Boyer, Hudson begins a seduction campaign. Caron resents this intrusion in her private affairs and...
Tags: Satire Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners Romantic Drama Showbiz Comedy
Length: 97min
Adorable Julia, by director Alfred Weidenmann, is perhaps a little too provincial or out-moded for most audiences in spite of the sophisticated allure of Lili Palmer and Charles Boyer in the lead roles. Palmer plays the title character Julia, the...
Cast: William Wyler Peter O'Toole Audrey Hepburn Eli Wallach
Tags: Crime Crime Comedy Caper Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 127min
In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is copying famous works of art. His replica of a famed Cellini sculpture is inadvertently displayed in an art museum, and he begins...
Cast: Glenn Ford Charles Boyer
Length: 111min
In this light romantic comedy Charles Boyer plays the enigmatic Mr. Pimm, a man with a Cupid complex who grooms men to be paired with the ideal wealthy heiress, and once heavenly matrimony is attained, Mr. Pimm gets his cut. He has his eyes set on...
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