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Charles Boyer

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081315555X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Charles Boyer written by John Baxter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Baxter relates how Boyer (1899–1978) established himself in the theater and cinema of France, confidently transitioning from silent film to sound and making a name for himself as a romantic leading man in Hollywood through the early 1940s. During World War II, Boyer put his career on hold to become politically active on behalf of his occupied home country. Upon returning to the stage and screen, Boyer adapted effortlessly to postwar character roles in both Europe and the United States. He entered television in the 1950s as both producer and performer, and then remade himself as a comedy performer in the 1960s. Nominated four times for Academy Awards, he was honored by the Academy only once—a special honorary award received for his activities on behalf of France during World War II. In an insightful analysis of Boyer's choice of roles during and after World War II, Baxter shows that the actor possessed a shrewd perception of his image. Baxter reveals how Boyer, realizing his accent would always mark him as an outsider, both embraced and subverted that identity. Far from clinging to the performances that made him famous, Boyer showed a readiness to break the mold. Yet above all, Baxter argues, Boyer's greatest achievement was becoming the embodiment of exiles everywhere.

Charles Boyer

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813155568
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Charles Boyer written by John Baxter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Baxter relates how Boyer (1899–1978) established himself in the theater and cinema of France, confidently transitioning from silent film to sound and making a name for himself as a romantic leading man in Hollywood through the early 1940s. During World War II, Boyer put his career on hold to become politically active on behalf of his occupied home country. Upon returning to the stage and screen, Boyer adapted effortlessly to postwar character roles in both Europe and the United States. He entered television in the 1950s as both producer and performer, and then remade himself as a comedy performer in the 1960s. Nominated four times for Academy Awards, he was honored by the Academy only once—a special honorary award received for his activities on behalf of France during World War II. In an insightful analysis of Boyer's choice of roles during and after World War II, Baxter shows that the actor possessed a shrewd perception of his image. Baxter reveals how Boyer, realizing his accent would always mark him as an outsider, both embraced and subverted that identity. Far from clinging to the performances that made him famous, Boyer showed a readiness to break the mold. Yet above all, Baxter argues, Boyer's greatest achievement was becoming the embodiment of exiles everywhere.

Charles Boyer

Author : Larry Swindell
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781626546103
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Charles Boyer written by Larry Swindell and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. His film performances in Europe made him a star, and Hollywood soon fell under Boyer's spell. His mystique extended beyond the screen, as his work with the French Underground in WWII made him a real-life hero.

Sasakian Geometry

Author : Charles Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sasakian Geometry written by Charles Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an extensive modern treatment of Sasakian geometry, which is of importance in many different fields in geometry and physics.

The University of Chicago

Author : John W. Boyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022624265X
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The University of Chicago written by John W. Boyer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 150 countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting. With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College since 1992, presents a deeply researched and comprehensive history of the university. Boyer has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. The result is a fascinating narrative of a legendary academic community, one that brings to light the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the conditions that have enabled the university to survive and sustain itself through decades of change. Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community. Published to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the university, this must-have reference will appeal to alumni and anyone interested in the history of higher education of the United States.

New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-Second Department

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-Second Department written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journeys of Desire

Author : Alastair Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838716572
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Journeys of Desire written by Alastair Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to European actors in American film, this book brings together 15 chapters with A-Z entries on over 900 individuals. It includes case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the emigres, such as the stereotyping of European actresses in 'bad women' roles, and the irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis.

Salem Possessed

Author : Paul Boyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674282663
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Salem Possessed written by Paul Boyer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources—many previously neglected or unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. “Salem Possessed,” wrote Robin Briggs in The Times Literary Supplement, “reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatments can be consigned to the historical lumber-room.” Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the breakup of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.

Suicide in the Entertainment Industry

Author : David K. Frasier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608075
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Suicide in the Entertainment Industry written by David K. Frasier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre, dance, music, literature (writers with direct connections to film), and other allied fields in the entertainment industry from 1905 through 2000. Accidentally self-inflicted deaths are omitted, except for a few controversial cases. It includes the suicides of well-known personalities such as actress Peg Entwistle, who is the only person to ever commit suicide by jumping from the top of the Hollywood Sign, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, who are believed to have overdosed on drugs, and Richard Farnsworth and Brian Keith, who shot themselves to end the misery of terminal cancer. Also mentioned, but in less detail, are the suicides of unknown and lesser-known members of the entertainment industry. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers the person’s personal and professional background, method of suicide, and, in some instances, includes actual statements taken from the suicide note.

Man and Superman

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Man and Superman written by Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Man and Superman" is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. It was written in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme and became one of the greatest works in his heritage.

Billy Wilder

Author : Glenn Hopp
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9783822815953
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Billy Wilder written by Glenn Hopp and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of director Billy Wilder (""Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot"") contains movie posters, a bibliography and a complete filmography.

History of Berks County in Pennsylvania

Author : Morton Luther Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book History of Berks County in Pennsylvania written by Morton Luther Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islands Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Official Register

Author : United States Civil Service Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Register written by United States Civil Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 2268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anatole Litvak

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786494131
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Anatole Litvak written by Michelangelo Capua and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 40-year career, director-producer Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) made films of all genres in Russia, Germany, England, France and the United States. His rootless background was cited by critics lamenting his lack of consistent style, but it also added to his mystique as a chameleon-like realisateur. Litvak directed Hollywood greats like Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Kirk Douglas, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Olivia de Havilland, Yul Brynner, Burt Lancaster, Barbara Stanwick and many others. He was twice nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences for The Snake Pit (1948) and for Decision Before Dawn (1951). These films--along with Mayerling (1936), Sorry, Wrong Number (1946) and Anastasia (1956)--are considered classics, but his pictures don't offer many clues about Litvak the man. Apart from passing references to his wartime service as combat documentarian, he never discussed his life in print, allowing only brief interviews relating exclusively to his work. This biography fills that void, providing the first detailed portrait of an artist described by film historian Richard Schickel as "an adept, adaptable and prolific man; the kind of director that Hollywood likes best."

Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America

Author : Charles L. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299225742
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America written by Charles L. Cohen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how a variety of print media—religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary “Bible-zines”—have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Author : Robert Fulghum
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 034546639X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten written by Robert Fulghum and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on life that will resonate deeply as readers discover how universal insights can be found in ordinary events. More than thirty years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo—a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Today, after being embraced around the world and selling more than seven million copies, Fulghum’s book retains the potency of a common though no less relevant piece of wisdom: that the most basic aspects of life bear its most important opportunities. Here Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental United States. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe . . . the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot-air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to “fly” . . . life lessons hidden in the laundry pile . . . magical qualities found in a box of crayons . . . hide-and-seek vs. sardines—and how these games relate to the nature of God. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is brimming with the very stuff of life and the significance found in the smallest details. In the editions since the first publication of this book, Robert Fulghum has had some time to ponder, to reevaluate, and to reconsider, adding fresh thoughts on classic topics including a short new introduction. Praise for All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten “A healthy antidote to the horrors that pummel us in this dicey age.”—Baltimore Sun “Within simplicity lies the sublime.”—San Francisco Chronicle “It is interesting how much of it applies not only to individuals, grown or small, but even to nations.”—New York Daily News “As universal as fresh air and invigorating as the fragrance of a Douglas fir.”—Los Angeles Times