Charles BoyerFilmography

A Matter of Time

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Spiros Andros, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: 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 before her big break, when she worked as a Read More

Stavisky

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Perier, Charles Boyer, Anny Duperey, Michel Lonsdale, Roberto Bisacco

Synopsis: 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 in jail, he continued to engage in doubtful Read More

Lost Horizon

Actors: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy, Michael York

Synopsis: James Hilton's beloved fantasy novel about the land of Shangri-La was given an awkward musical treatment in this extravagantly produced flop. Larry Kramer's screenplay stays close to the 1937 Frank Capra original, as a plane fleeing China crashes in the Himalayas and a mixed group of survivors Read More

The Madwoman of Chaillot

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Claude Dauphin, Edith Evans, Margaret Leighton, John Gavin

Synopsis: 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 Aurelia (Katherine Hepburn). Roderick (Richard Chamberlain Read More

The Emissary

Synopsis: This 90-minute TV drama was lensed on location in Paris. Charles Boyer guest stars as an old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (series regular Gene Barry). Howard would like Boyer to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. Read More

The April Fools

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford). It is here that Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon), one of Gunther's employees, makes the acquaintance of the boss' lovely young trophy wife Catherine (Catherine Deneuve). Read More

Le Rouble a Deux Faces

Synopsis: In this espionage comedy, an American and a Russian agent find themselves double-crossed by a double agent who works for both of them. Also involved are a naive IBM computer operator, and the telephone operator at the hot-line center in Stockholm. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Casino Royale

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet

Synopsis: Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees Read More

Barefoot in the Park

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herb Edelman

Synopsis: 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 Greenwich Village apartment. Paul is a Read More

How to Steal a Million

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: 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 to worry that he'll lose his reputation once the Read More

Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: 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 the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

A Very Special Favor

Actors: Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Walter Slezak, Dick Shawn

Synopsis: 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 builds up a wall of resistance against the Read More

Personal Touch

Day They Gave Diamonds Away

Love is a Ball

Actors: Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalban, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: 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 Millie (Hope Lange) for the handsome but somewhat Read More

The Losers

Synopsis: This hour-long Western drama was originally an episode of the popular award-winning television show The Dick Powell Show. Directed by Sam Peckinpah one year after his feature-film debut, The Deadly Companions, The Losers stars Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn, Rosemary Clooney, and Charles Boyer. The film Read More

Les Démons De Minuit

Actors: Charles Boyer, Pascale Petit, Maria Mauban, Charles Belmont

Synopsis: This drama's main asset is Charles Boyer as Pierre, a father out looking for his son one night. Pierre receives a call from a woman who says she will kill herself because of his son. Naturally disturbed at this news, Pierre takes off to find his son and avert disaster. Along the way, he picks up a Read More

Adorable Julia

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Charles Boyer, Jean Sorel, Jean Valerie

Synopsis: 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 philandering wife of Michel (Boyer), a very Read More

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Henreid

Synopsis: 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 stand trial. The World War I setting of the Read More

Fanny

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Salvatore Baccaloni

Synopsis: Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's "Marseilles Trilogy". Pagnol's original, titled Cesar, ends with protagonist Marius returning to the sea, leaving behind his lover Fanny and their son. Expanding upon the Read More

Big Hello / The Wild Bunch

Synopsis: "The Big Hello" and "The Wild Bunch" originated as 25-minute episodes of the TV anthology Four Star Playhouse. Linking the two short films is the starring presence of Natalie Wood, who did quite a lot of TV work between 1950 and 1955. Supporting Wood in these dramatic playlets are such dependables Read More

The Buccaneer

Actors: Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Inger Stevens

Synopsis: When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his son-in-law, Anthony Quinn, jumped into DeMille's jodhpurs. In this version, Yul Brynner plays the starring role of debonair pirate Jean Lafitte, who is contacted by General Andrew Read More

Maxime

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Charles Boyer, Arletty, Felix Marten, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Charles Boyer is Maxime in this seriocomic period romance. Maxime is an ageing roue who, partly out of boredom and partly because he needs a steady source of income, arranges the romantic assignations of his protégé, wealthy Hubert (Felix Marten). The old rake's current mission is to weaken the Read More

La Parisienne

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal, André Luguet, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: Variously titled La Parisienne and Une Parisienne, Parisienne, this Franco-Italian co-production is one of Brigitte Bardot's best vehicles. The daughter of the Premier of France (no, not DeGaulle!), La Bardot is married to Henri Vidal, the premier's chief aide. When Vidal shows signs of Read More

Hallmark Hall of Fame: There Shall Be No Night

Actors: Charles Boyer, Katharine Cornell, Ray Walston, Bradford Dillman, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: First staged on Broadway in 1940 with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and Montgomery Clift in the starring roles, Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play There Shall Be No Night was originally set in Finland in the years before the outbreak of WW2. For this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, the Read More

Paris, Palace Hotel

Actors: Charles Boyer, Françoise Arnoul, Tilda Thamar, Roberto Risso

Synopsis: Screen star Charles Boyer made a rare return to his home turf in the Franco-Italian Paris Palace Hotel. Boyer plays Delomel, a roguish middle-aged husband who uses an attack of gout as an excuse to escape his spouse. While staying at the titular hotel, Delomel gets mixed up with manicurist Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy Meets Charles Boyer

Actors: Charles Boyer, Jack Chefe

Synopsis: Forewarned that starstruck Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) intend to accost French film idol Charles Boyer at a Parisian sidewalk restaurant, Ricky (Desi Arnaz) manages to reach Boyer first to prepare the poor fellow for the assault to come. The amused actor decide to play a trick on Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

La Fortuna Di Essere Donna

Actors: Charles Boyer, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: Sophia Loren was twenty-one years old when she starred in this lightly spicy comedy. Antoinette (Loren) is an attractive young woman who is adjusting her stockings one day when a passing news photographer snaps her picture. To Antoinette's shock, the picture appears on the front page of one of Read More

Nana

Actors: Martine Carol, Charles Boyer, Noël Roquevert, Jacques Castelot

Synopsis: The most frequently filmed of Emile Zola's works, Nana was given a slick, polished cinemazation by French- filmmaker Christian-Jacque in 1955. Martine Carol is well (if predictably) cast in the title role, playing a poverty-stricken Parisian girl who rises to prominence as a high-priced whore. Read More

The Wild Bunch

Actors: Charles Boyer, Natalie Wood

The Cobweb

Actors: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: William Gibson's novel The Cobweb was brought to the screen by MGM with an impressive, hand-picked cast. Richard Widmark plays the head of a posh psychiatric clinic. Widmark's wife Gloria Grahame jockeys for the honor of selecting new drapes for the hospital's library. One wouldn't think that such Read More

Madame de...

Actors: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Mireille Perrey

Synopsis: Max Ophüls' masterpiece stars Danielle Darrieux as the titular Madame Louise de..., who in the film's opening scenes is forced to discreetly sell a pair of earrings, a gift from her military officer husband Andre (Charles Boyer), in order to make good on her debts. After she claims the earrings to Read More

Thunder in the East

Actors: Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Corinne Calvet, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: During the early days of East Indian independence in 1947, a native rebellion threatens a hotel full of Britishers, Europeans and Americans. Gunrunner Alan Ladd could care less about anything other than his own neck. Ladd runs up against the resistance of a pacifist Indian leader (Charles Boyer) Read More

The Happy Time

Actors: Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Kurt Kasznar, Linda Christian

Synopsis: The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by Robert Fontaine. Set in Quebec during the early part of the 20th century, the film concentrates on the activities of a large French-Canadian family headed by Charles Boyer. Most Read More

Four Star Playhouse [TV Series]

Actors: Charles Boyer, David Niven, Ida Lupino, Dick Powell

The 13th Letter

Actors: Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Françoise Rosay

Synopsis: A remake of the French Le Corbeau ("The Raven"), The Thirteenth Letter is a film noir in a curious setting -- a rural village deep in Quebec, seemingly sleepy and typical. Dr. Laurent (Charles Boyer) returns from a medical convention in Montreal, anxious to see his much younger wife, Cora Read More

The First Legion

Actors: Charles Boyer, William Demarest, Lyle Bettger, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Since its lapse into public domain in 1978, First Legion has joined Love Affair and Algiers as the most readily available of Charles Boyer's films. Boyer plays Fr. Marc Arnoux, the head of St. Gregory's seminary, who can never quite shake the feeling that he shouldn't have given up his career as Read More

Arch of Triumph

Actors: Stephen Bekassy, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Roman Bohnen, Curt Bois, Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern, Michael Romanoff, J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph is a complicated war romance directed by Lewis Milestone. Dr. Ravic (Charles Boyer) is a refugee physician practicing medicine illegally in Paris under a false name. He saves Joan Madou (Ingrid Bergman) from committing suicide after the Read More

A Woman's Vengeance

Actors: Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: A Woman's Vengeance concerns a "likely" murderer, Henry Maurier, played by Charles Boyer. It is no secret that Maurier is enamored with young Doris (Ann Blyth), but is his love for the girl motive enough for Maurier to murder his invalid wife? Only family friend Dr. Libbard (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) Read More

Cluny Brown

Actors: Norman Ainsley, Jennifer Jones, Sara Allgood, Charles Boyer, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Margaret Bannerman, Florence Bates, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle is indisposed, Cluny rolls up her sleeves and takes a plumbing job at a society home, where she meets a handsome Czech author (Charles Boyer) - a refugee who has fled the Read More

Confidential Agent

Actors: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Wanda Hendrix, Peter Lorre, Katina Paxinou, Victor Francen, George Coulouris

Synopsis: A Graham Greene novel was the source of the Warner Bros. espionage thriller Confidential Agent. Charles Boyer stars as Denard, a former concert musician operating as anti-Fascist secret agent in the Spanish Civil War. While negotiating with the neutral British for some much needed fuel supplies Read More

La Bataille Du Rail

Actors: Jean Daurand, Tony Laurent, Jean Clarieux, Jacques Desagneaux

Synopsis: La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) is regarded by many cineastes as the one truly great French "resistance" film. Based on fact, the episodic plotline details the courageous efforts by French railray workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains. The film's thesis is that this Read More

Gaslight

Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel "women's picture" director George Cukor. Bergman stars as Paula Alquist, a late 19th century English singer studying music in Italy. However, Paula abandons her studies Read More

Together Again

Actors: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Charles Coburn, Mona Freeman, Elizabeth Patterson, Jerome Courtland

Synopsis: The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on film. Dunne plays the lady mayor of a small Vermont town. Boyer portrays a big-city sculptor, hired to erect a statue in the memory of Irene's husband, the former mayor. Dunne Read More

Flesh and Fantasy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Carnival in Flanders and Tales of Manhattan, director Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy is a "pormanteau" film, consisting of several short stories. Linking the three tales unfolded herein are clubmen Doakes (Robert Benchley) and Davis (David Hoffman), who carry Read More

The Heart of a Nation

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Suzy Prim, Raimu, Lucien Nat, Louis Jouvet, Renee Devillers

Synopsis: Heart of a Nation was filmed in 1940, just after the Nazi occupation of Paris. The film traces the fortunes of the Froment family of Montmartre, from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 to World War II. Comedy and tragedy are deftly blended throughout; Raimu's visit to the Moulin Rouge is as hilarious Read More

The Constant Nymph

Actors: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Brenda Marshall, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in Britain in 1928 and 1933 by producer Michael Balcon. The plot was substantially the same in all three versions: A self-centered European musician (Charles Boyer) is idolized by a Read More

Tales of Manhattan

Actors: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton

Synopsis: Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage actor Charles Boyer, who wears it during a rendezvous with his lady friend (Rita Hayworth). The lady's husband (Thomas Mitchell) shoots Boyer, thus the tailcoat is damaged Read More

Back Street

Actors: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt

Synopsis: Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan star in this adaptation of Fannie Hurst's tearjerking novel about a woman who chooses to stand beside a man who cannot marry her. Rae (Margaret Sullavan) is a woman from Ohio who meets a dashing gentleman from out of town, Walter (Charles Boyer). They soon fall Read More

Hold Back the Dawn

Actors: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel

Synopsis: Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life story to director Mitchell Leisen (who actually directed this film). In flashback, we see that Boyer was once a conscienceless gigolo, desperate to flee Nazi-occupied Read More

Appointment for Love

Actors: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Rita Johnson, Eugene Pallette, Ruth Terry

Synopsis: What's a modern guy to do when his wife's ideas about marriage are a bit too modern for his taste? Andre Casall (Charles Boyer) is a successful, free-thinking playwright who becomes infatuated with a progressive female doctor, Jane Alexander (Margaret Sullavan). They marry impulsively, and Andre Read More

All This and Heaven Too

Actors: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil, Virginia Weidler

Synopsis: An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a once-notorious European scandal. Star Bette Davis, playing Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, is first seen as a French schoolteacher in a 19th century American seminary. When her Read More

When Tomorrow Comes

Actors: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens, Nydia Westman

Synopsis: Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When Tomorrow Comes, based on a story by James M. Cain. Philip (Boyer) is a concert pianist who stops into a restaurant for lunch and meets waitress Helen Lawrence (Dunne). He Read More

Love Affair

Actors: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: Leo McCarey's classic tale of romance stars Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer as two strangers who fall in love on an ocean voyage. Charles Boyer is Michel Marnet, engaged to be married to Lois Clarke (Astrid Allwyn). Irene Dunne is Terry McKay, also engaged to be married, in this case to Kenneth Read More

Orage

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Lisette Lanvin, Jean-Louis Barrault, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Orage (Storm) marked Charles Boyer's return to France after a two-year soujourn in Hollywood. Boyer plays construction engineer Andre Pascaud, who is dissatisfied with his marriage to the adoring Gisele (Lisette Lanvin). When Andre's brother-in-law Gilbert (Robert Manuel) brings home his fiancee Read More

Algiers

Actors: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the original film, and even picked its actors on the basis of their resemblance to the French cast. Contrary to legend, star Charles Boyer never says "Come wizz me to zee Read More

Conquest

Actors: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: Conquest was released in England as Marie Waleska, the name of the real-life historical personage portrayed by Greta Garbo. The film begins in 1807, when Marie, a Polish countess, is dispatched by her country to meet with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). Marie has been encouraged to Read More

Tovarich

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the core of this successful 1937 Hollywood comedy-drama starring the French-born Charles Boyer as Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff. The prince and his wife, Grand Duchess Read More

History is Made at Night

Actors: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins deceptively in screwball-comedy fashion with socialite Jean Arthur and handsome head waiter Charles Boyer "meeting cute." But there's nothing cute about Arthur's estranged husband Read More

Mayerling

Actors: Charles Boyer, Jean Dax, Jean Debucourt, Marthe Regnier, Danielle Darrieux, Suzy Prim, Gabrielle Dorziat

Synopsis: Based on Idol's End, a novel by Claude Anet, the French Mayerling is based on the tragic real-life story of Hapsburg Crown Prince Rudolph and his mistress, Baroness Marie Vetsera. Since the details of Rudolph and Marie's lives and deaths are clouded in controversy, much of the film is romanticized Read More

I Loved a Soldier

The Garden of Allah

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, Tilly Losch

Synopsis: Marlene Dietrich stars as the noble Domini Enfilden in this third film version of Robert Hichens' 1904 novel. After caring for her dying father, Domini is told by her Mother Superior (Lucille Watson) that she should go to the Algerian desert to rest and seek sanctuary. On her way to the town of Read More

Private Worlds

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Helen Vinson

Synopsis: The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems of her own. Colbert's appointment to a top mental hospital is frowned upon by head doctor Charles Boyer, who doesn't have much confidence in woman doctors of any kind. A Read More

Break of Hearts

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt, Sam Hardy

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene Millard in this overheated melodrama directed by Philip Moeller of the renowned Theater Guild. Although receiving plenty of warning, prim lady composer Constance Roberti Read More

Le Bonheur

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Paulette Dubost, Charles Boyer, Michel Simon, Jaque Catelain

Synopsis: Released in English-speaking countries as Happiness, Le Bonheur was based on a play by Henry Bernstein. Charles Boyer stars as a fervent anarchist who vows to kill anyone who represents "the establishment." As a result, he ends up shooting idolized music-hall singer Gaby Morlay in full view of her Read More

Shanghai

Actors: Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Warner Oland, Fred Keating, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: The stigma of miscegenation (horrors!) is at the base of this very dated romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer stars as Dmitri Koslov, an enterprising Eurasian who rises from rickshaw driver to powerful industrialist, all the while concealing his mixed parentage. Koslov falls in love with beautiful Read More

Liliom

Actors: Madeleine Ozeray, Charles Boyer, Pierre Alcover, Roland Toutain

Synopsis: Liliom, Ferenc Molnar's bittersweet fantasy play, was first filmed in Hollywood in 1930, with Charles Farrell as ne'er-do-well carnival barker Liliom and Rose Hobart as his long-suffering wife Julie. While that version is not available for public viewing, the 1935 French-language version directed Read More

Thunder in the East

Actors: Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld, Miles Mander

Synopsis: The Battle is the English-language version of the French La Bataille; both versions starred Charles Boyer in one of his oddest screen roles. Adapted from a novel by Claude Farrere, the film casts Boyer as Marquis Yorisaka, a patriot Japanese nobleman in charge of a vast naval fleet. He strikes up Read More

Caravan

Actors: Annabella, Conchita Montenegro, Loretta Young, Jean Parker, Charles Boyer, Pierre Brasseur, Phillips Holmes, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance Caravan. A miscast Loretta Young stars as young Countess Wilms, who is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi (Boyer) Read More

L'Epervier

Actors: Natalie Paley, Charles Boyer, George Grossmith

Heart Song

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Charles Boyer, O.B. Clarence, Ernst Thesiger

Synopsis: In this British romance, a German duke falls passionately in love with the owner of a beautiful singing voice, even though he has never seen her. When he first hears it, the duke assumes that it belongs to the empress. The voice actually belongs to her hairdresser. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

La Bataille

Actors: Annabella, Betty Stockfeld, Charles Boyer, Valery Inkijinoff

Ich und Die Kaiserin

Actors: Mady Christians, Lilian Harvey

Synopsis: In this musical the Empress' hairdresser finds herself mistaken for the Empress by a deranged aristocrat. Mayhem and music ensues as she tries to convince him otherwise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I.F.1 Ne Repond Plus

Actors: Daniele Parola, Charles Boyer, Jean Murat, Pierre Brasseur

The Man from Yesterday

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Clive Brook, Charles Boyer, Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor Charles Boyer, believing that her first husband, Clive Brook, has been killed in World War One. Not quite; Brook has survived (though not by much), ending up in the same Read More

Moi Et L'Imperatrice

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Charles Boyer, Pierre Brasseur

Red Headed Woman

Actors: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel

Synopsis: Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost ruined his own marriage. In a way he had a point , but only Jean Harlow could have made gold digger Lil Andrews a sympathetic protagonist. And Katherine Brush's racy novel Read More

The Magnificent Lie

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin, Françoise Rosay, Sam Hardy

Synopsis: The only thing magnificent about Magnificent Lie is its title. As usual, Ruth Chatterton plays a woman of variable morals, this time a seedy cafe entertainer. Ralph Bellamy costars as a recently blinded man, whose sole reason for living is his adulation of a famous French singing star. To boost Read More

Tumultes

Actors: Charles Boyer, Marcel André

Le Proces De Mary Dugan

Actors: Huguette Duflos, Françoise Rosay, Charles Boyer

Barcarolle D'Amour

Actors: Simone Cerdan, Charles Boyer, Jim Gérald

Revolt dans la Prison

Actors: Mona Goya, Charles Boyer, André Burgère, André Berley

Captain Fracasse

Actors: Lien Deyers, Marguerite Moreno, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: The first of three film versions of Theophile Gautier's popular adventure novel Le Capitaine Fracasse was co-written and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1929. Pierre Blanchar essays the title character, who when first we see him is impoverished nobleman Baron de Solignac. Living a solitary Read More

La Ronde Infernale

Actors: Blanche Montel, Pauline Carton, Jean Angelo, Charles Boyer

Esclave

Actors: Georges Gauthier, Charles Boyer

Chante-Louve

Actors: Yvette Andréyor, Jean Toulout, Charles Boyer

L'Homme Du Large

Actors: Jaque Catelain, Roger Karl

Tour of the Louvre

Synopsis: This travelogue takes you through the most famous museum in the world, the Louvre. ~ All Movie Guide Read More