Charles Boyer

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Charles Boyer (1899-1978)

Charles Boyer debuted on both stage and screen in his native France in 1920. When he first came to Hollywood he played leads in the 1931 French-language versions of The Big House and The Trial of Mary Dugan. His first English-speaking role came in The Magnificent Lie (1931), though you more likely first saw him cavorting with Jean Harlow in Red-Headed Woman (1932). He returned to France and starre...