Charles Boyer: The French Lover Baxter John
For generations of film and theatre audiences, Charles Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman -- cultured, courteous, seductive, yet never quite at home in a culture not his own. Even his murmuring…
Specifikacia Charles Boyer: The French Lover Baxter John
For generations of film and theatre audiences, Charles Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman -- cultured, courteous, seductive, yet never quite at home in a culture not his own. Even his murmuring baritone voice echoed that loss, giving him the very essence of romance. While one might have expected that the real-life Boyer was a playboy and serial seducer, in reality, he was intensely private, thoughtful, and fidelitous in love -- and very professionally astute.The Great Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. In an insightful analysis of Boyer's choice of roles during and after World War II, author John Baxter reveals how Boyer, realizing his accent would always mark him as an outsider, both embraced and subverted that identity. Baxter relates how Boyer established himself in the theatre and cinema of France, confidently
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