Papers, 1935-1961.

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Papers, 1935-1961.

Collection consists of approximately 200 photographs and publicity stills, souvenir programs, scrapbooks, and other ephemera from Boyer's career in motion pictures. Includes portraits of Boyer and Charles De Gaulle, a collection of French autographs, and screenplays for Arch of triumph and Garden of Allah. Also includes an index to the Boyer Collection of French plays that is now dispersed throughout the UCLA Libraries.

6 boxes (3 linear ft.)6 oversize boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7401664

University of California, Los Angeles

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Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978

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Boyer was born Aug. 28, 1899 in Figeac, France; studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and drama at the Paris Conservatory; after his stage and film debuts in 1920, he became a matinee idol on stage; moved between Hollywood, France, and Germany from 1929-1934, and permanently moved to Los Angeles in 1934; developed career as a great lover and lead actor in films produced in France and Hollywood; married English actress Pat Paterson; active during WWII in cementing Franco-American relations and headi...