August 28

French actor Charles Boyer was born on the 28th in 1899. He would become one of the more romantic leading men in what is an oppressively long string of films. He met British actress Pat Paterson at a dinner party in 1934 and it was, at Boyer’s admission, love at first sight. After knowing each other for two weeks, he and Miss Patterson married and they remained married until her death in 1978. Boyer committed suicide two days before his 79th birthday. Toward the end of his life, Boyer was quoted as saying, “That love at first sight should happen to me was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool."