Youth Circa
Name this old romantic B/W movie (1940's)
My mother has asked me to find her a movie from her youth, but she doesn't remember much from the movie. She doesn't remember who's in it, who made it, or when it was made exactly.
Here's what she does recall.
1. It was out around the time of Casa Blanca. (circa 1940s)
2. It might have had a french sounding actor or an actor with a french name.
3. His first name might have been Paul.
4. The movie was a romantic, Guy steals Gal from other guy, they live happily ever after.
5. It was black and white.
Thats just about all the facts, if I get more out of her ill be sure to post.
Please post any movie you guys come up with. Ill relay all possible movies/actors to her!
Thank you all in advanced.
She says Charles Boyer in "Tales of Manhattan" is definitely not it.
Also Paul Henreid is also definitely not it either.
Charles Boyer plays Paul Orman in "Tales of Manhattan" (1942).
IMDb review:
SEQUENCE ONE An actor and his lover (Charles Boyer and Rita Hayworth) are confronted by her quietly sadistic husband (Thomas Mitchell). Eugene Palette plays Boyer's loyal valet. An unbilled Robert Greig appears as the corpulent creator of the elegant tail coat.
NOTE: This is a portmanteau film, what some refer to as an anthology, with several stories.
Charles Boyer plays Paul Gaspar in "Flesh and Fantasy" (1943).
IMDb review:
An acrobat star (Boyer) dreams that he falls from the wire while a woman in the audience (Barbara Stanwyck) is watching~a woman he's never met before. On a boat, he meets her, and they fall in love. Another strange dream puzzles the hero who, although disturbed and worried, wants to go for broke.
In "Brief Ecstasy" (1937), Paul Lukas plays Prof. Paul Bernardy. But, his wife leaves him for a younger man.
In "Joan of Paris" (1942), Paul Henreid plays Paul Lavallier.
IMDb review:
Henreid is a member of the Free French flying with the RAF, and he and the crew are shot down over occupied France. Henreid and the group, including a wounded Alan Ladd, make their way to Paris, where he tries to contact either the French Underground or any British intelligence operative. Henreid displays all the charm later put to full advantage in "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager". His romance with Michelle Morgan is tender and all too tragically brief. Like "Casablanca", Henreid wants to get back in the fight. Morgan, who's patron saint is Joan of Arc, will sacrifice all to aid him.
NOTE: He has a role in "Pardon My French" (1951) as Paul Rencourt.
I'm trying to think of actors with an accent, but that time period was when the "Continental lover"-type actors were extremely popular. Boyer was from France; Paul Henry, from Austria-Hungary; Paul Lukas, from Hungary. It's difficult to track it down. Perhaps one of us will have suggested something that will spark her memory.
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