 Charles Boyer (I) (qv)s contract stipulated top billing. When  David O. Selznick (qv) heard this (Ingrid Bergman (I) (qv) was  under contract to him at the time), he refused to loan MGM Bergmans  services. It was only after much pleading from Bergman, who was very  keen to work with Boyer, that Selznick finally relented.