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Title: Charles Boyer papers
Date (inclusive): 1935-1961
Collection number: 323
Creator:
Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978
Extent:
6 boxes (3 linear ft.)
7 oversize boxes
1 oversize folder
Abstract: Charles Boyer (1899-1978) was born in Figeac, France. He developed an acting career in films produced in France and Hollywood.
The collection consists of approximately 200 photographs and publicity stills, souvenir programs, scrapbooks, and other ephemera
from Boyer's career in motion picture as well as an index to the Boyer Collection of French plays that is now dispersed throughout
the UCLA Libraries.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Charles Boyer papers (Collection 323). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
709444
Boyer was born August 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 World War II in cementing Franco-American relations
and heading French war relief efforts; established French Research Foundation in Los Angeles; appeared with Charles Laughton
on stage in
Don Juan in Hell (1951); co-founded Four Star Television with Dick Powell and David Niven in 1951 and subsequently starred in company's television
productions in 1950s and 1960s; committed suicide on August 26, 1978, two days after his wife's death in 1978.
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.
Arranged in the following series:
- Photographs and sketches.
- Scrapbooks.
- Screenplays.
- Collection of French autographs.
- Index to Boyer Collection of French plays in UCLA library holdings.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978--Archives.
Actors--United States--Archival resources.
Autographs.
Charles Boyer French Research Foundation Collection (Collection 1132)
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.