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a kennedy

(32,324 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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Another actor that plays the same role over and over...... (Original Post) a kennedy Nov 2023 OP

Yes he does. elleng Nov 2023 #1

I like him in "Affair to Remember" where he and a shipmate fell in love and agreed to meet... brush Nov 2023 #2

Really???? I must make sure I see that......absolutely loved Cary Grant's movie.... a kennedy Nov 2023 #3

See both version's. Boyer's is just as good of better. brush Nov 2023 #5

It's call Love Affair, Cary Grant's movie is called Affair to Remember. a kennedy Nov 2023 #4

Thanks for the title correx. Both films are excellent, with Boyer's a nudge better IMO... brush Nov 2023 #6

You're right of course, but he was just soooooooo good at being Cary Grant. a kennedy Nov 2023 #10

It could be because of Irene Dunne, too. LisaM Nov 2023 #7

It was a remake JoseBalow Nov 2023 #8

Practically a knockoff is right. And the re-make wasn't that many years later... brush Nov 2023 #9

elleng

(136,833 posts)

1. Yes he does.

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2023, 02:33 PM

Nov 2023

Those 2 kept me up/watching last night/this morning.

brush

(58,034 posts)

2. I like him in "Affair to Remember" where he and a shipmate fell in love and agreed to meet...

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

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

(32,324 posts)

3. Really???? I must make sure I see that......absolutely loved Cary Grant's movie....

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 14, 2023, 03:29 PM

Nov 2023

brush

(58,034 posts)

5. See both version's. Boyer's is just as good of better.

Reply to a kennedy (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 14, 2023, 03:49 PM

Nov 2023

a kennedy

(32,324 posts)

4. It's call Love Affair, Cary Grant's movie is called Affair to Remember.

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

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

(58,034 posts)

6. Thanks for the title correx. Both films are excellent, with Boyer's a nudge better IMO...

Reply to a kennedy (Reply #4)

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.

a kennedy

(32,324 posts)

10. You're right of course, but he was just soooooooo good at being Cary Grant.

Reply to brush (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 14, 2023, 06:17 PM

Nov 2023

LisaM

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7. It could be because of Irene Dunne, too.

Reply to a kennedy (Reply #4)

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.

JoseBalow

(5,647 posts)

8. It was a remake

Reply to LisaM (Reply #7)

Tue Nov 14, 2023, 04:01 PM

Nov 2023

brush

(58,034 posts)

9. Practically a knockoff is right. And the re-make wasn't that many years later...

Reply to LisaM (Reply #7)

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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