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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.

History's Child

Author : Charles M. Boyer
Publisher : New Issues Poetry and Prose
ISBN 13 : 9781936970391
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book History's Child written by Charles M. Boyer and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 2016 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village; he is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence

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

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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:

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.

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.

Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey

Author : Charles Shimer Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey written by Charles Shimer Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

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:

Deathwatch

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571251513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Deathwatch written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deathwatch," Jean Genet's earliest, shortest and most formally straightforward play, was first performed in Paris in 1949. It retains an intense power and makes an excellent introduction to his later dramas - "The Maids," "The Balcony," "The Blacks," "The Screens." The French text of "Deathwatch," published by Gallimard, was extensively altered by Genet during rehearsal; and Bernard Frechtman's translation is of the final 'performance' version, which supersedes the original published text. Three convicts share a cramped prison cell. There is no question as to which of them is the dominant dog in the pack: Green Eyes (Yeux-Verts) has brutally murdered a woman and is to be executed. Lefranc and the younger novice-like Maurice are inside for less grave crimes. But both of them covet Green Eyes' attention, baiting each other in the process, a duel that drives inexorably toward violence.

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:

The Undying

Author : Anne Boyer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374719489
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Undying written by Anne Boyer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations

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."