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a kennedy

(32,098 posts)
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 02:22 PM Nov 2023

Another actor that plays the same role over and over......

Charles Boyer. Watching the movie with Boyer and Betty Davis in, “All this and heaven too”. He does play the same type of character as in the movie with Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight. Before the movie, All this and heaven too was made…….when France declared war on Germany, Boyer at the age of 40 enlisted in the army of France, his birth country, was made a private and fought in W W 2.

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brush

(57,554 posts)
2. I like him in "Affair to Remember" where he and a shipmate fell in love and agreed to meet...
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 02:51 PM
Nov 2023

weeks later once in NYC atop the Empire State Building. She, Irene Dunne, gets crippled in a car accident on her way to meet him and never makes it.

He waits and waits then finally, sadly leaves.

It's real tearjerker.

It's a different role for him. The film was remade later with Cary Grant I believe. Boyer's was better IMO.

a kennedy

(32,098 posts)
4. It's call Love Affair, Cary Grant's movie is called Affair to Remember.
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 03:38 PM
Nov 2023

Love Affair had 91 tomatoes, and Cary Grant’s Affair to remember had 61 tomatoes. Guess the rotten tomatoe folks liked Love Affair better too.

brush

(57,554 posts)
6. Thanks for the title correx. Both films are excellent, with Boyer's a nudge better IMO...
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 03:54 PM
Nov 2023

as it's a different role for him, whereas Cary Grant, his usual suave self, plays Cary Grant again.

LisaM

(28,604 posts)
7. It could be because of Irene Dunne, too.
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 03:57 PM
Nov 2023

I liked her performance far better than Deborah Kerr"s. Also, "An Affair to Remember" (which I like) was so similar to "A Love Affair" that it was practically a knockoff.

brush

(57,554 posts)
9. Practically a knockoff is right. And the re-make wasn't that many years later...
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 04:01 PM
Nov 2023

for the Boyer/Dunne version to be forgotten. Guess they wanted to capitalize on Cary Grant's popularity at the time.

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