Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the often-tragic life of this often overlooked, yet profoundly impactful French actor.
An anguished call for a plumber produces Cluny Brown. Thereafter, her fortunes tangle with ... In the novel, plumbing is incidental, but Lubitsch makes Cluny's ambitions the film's central joke and a means of mocking Britain's snobbery.
With his debonair good looks and French accent, it's no wonder female moviegoers of the 1930s and 1940s fell in love with Charles Boyer.
L'auteur a suivi Charles Boyer de Figeac à Hollywood, relu les articles de presse le concernant, fouillé dans ses archives ; pour relater, en termes concis, la vie d'un homme célèbre qui sut être, dans la dignité, un fils respectueux, ...
Charles Boyer, the "great lover" was the definition of polished European virility in the thirties and forties, and mesmerized his costars wit the same masterful ease that wooed his fans into theaters.