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Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film character actor, director, producer and screenwriter who had a successful career in Hollywood.
Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death; they had no children.
He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making a big impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Broadway and then Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on some of the most notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Laughton, was one of the most recognisable and beloved character actors of his generation, and portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film-hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Big Clock. In his later career, he took up stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed one film, the acclaimed thriller The Night of the Hunter.
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Plot: Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy.
Keywords: 1930s, animal-in-title, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, blackface, cartoon-duck, celebrity, celebrity-caricature, character-name-in-title, chefFrom The Colgate Comedy Hour with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, here's actor Charles Laughton reciting The Gettysburg Address. This is on LIVE TV back in the 1950's. So there are no re-takes. Bud and Lou also have there comedic take on the famous speech at the beginning. But Laughton steals the show with this unrehearsed performance. There are cue cards off stage but it looks as if Laughton didn't need them. Absolutely marvelous !
Criterion extras for Spartacus. Abbreviated at the start. Missing Ustinov talking about the secular uniqueness of this type of costume drama. I was blown away by the off the top of his head eloquence of this man. I could listen to him all day. Really loved his Charles Laughton impressions. Lots of anecdotes. Kubrick, Kirk, the times. I don't own this. Just sharing this fragment.
Charles Laughton was in an unfinished Josef von Sternberg movie called I, CLAUDIUS.
This could be the centerpiece of a master class in storytelling.
Rembrandt is a 1936 British biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The film was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by June Head and Lajos Bíró based on a story by Carl Zuckmayer. The music score was by Geoffrey Toye and the cinematography by Georges Périnal. Seventeenth-century painter Rembrandt van Rijn (Charles Laughton) suffers the loss of his wife. After an affair with the housekeeper, he finds lasting companionship with his housemaid (Elsa Lanchester), causing widespread scandal. Rembrandt's unwillingness to shill his paintings for commercial gain leads to financial difficulty. He navigates between the world of kings and queens and that of lowly beggars, finding his place as an artist. The...
In 1937, filming began on "I, Claudius," from the Robert Graves novel, with Charles Laughton in the title role. The cast also included Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams and Robert Newton. Producer Alexander Korda hired Josef von Sternberg to direct but once the cameras started rolling it became evident that Laughton was having great difficulty in getting into his part. Matters went from bad to worse, so that when Merle Oberon was involved in a car crash and hospitalised for several weeks, it was looked on, in Emlyn Williams's words, "as a godsend" and the film was abandoned altogether. In 1965, a TV programme investigated this unfinished project in a documentary narrated by Dirk Bogarde entitled 'The Epic That Never Was.' The surviving participants (including Oberon, Williams, Ro...
Free Classic Hollywood Feature Films at http://www.imovienetwork.com and http://www.greentreeclassicfilms.com Directed by Alfred Hitchcock the period piece is set in Cornwall in 1819. Cast: Charles Laughton – Sir Humphrey Pengallan Leslie Banks – Joss Merlyn Maureen O'Hara – Mary Yellen Robert Newton – James 'Jem' Traherne Marie Ney – Patience Merlyn Horace Hodges – Butler (Chadwick) Hay Petrie – Groom Frederick Piper – Agent Herbert Lomas – Tenant Clare Greet – Tenant William Devlin – Tenant Emlyn Williams – Harry the Pedlar Jeanne De Casalis – Sir Humphrey's friend Mabel Terry-Lewis – Lady Beston A. Bromley Davenport – Ringwood George Curzon – Captain Murray Basil Radford – Lord George
Charles Laughton appears as a mystery guest on the long-running CBS television program "What's My Line?" Dated November 25th, 1956.
First time on YouTube. From a 1950 radio show, Elsa Lanchester (the Bride of Frankenstein) and Charles Laughton (Quasimodo, Captain Bligh), who were married in real life, sing Frank Loesser's delightful winter classic. One of the strangest and most wonderful versions of the song ever.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037576/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kidd_(film) This Movie has fallen into the Public Domain and can now be watched for free and in full on YouTube.
O Guarda e o Hino (The Cop and the Anthem) é o 1º conto de O. Henry no filme Páginas da Vida (Full House), dirigido por Henry Koster e interpretado por Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe. The Cop and the Anthem is the 1st tale from the movie O. Henry's Full House, directed by Henry Koster and played by Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe.
MYSTERY GUEST: Charles Laughton [theater and film actor] PANEL: Arlene Francis, Burgess Meredith, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
Magistral como siempre Charles Laughton, en esta ocasión encarnando ejemplarmente a uno de los anti-héroes por excelencia del cine de aventuras: el Capitán Kidd. A finales del siglo XVII, el Capitán Kidd es un pirata corsario que se ha hecho famoso debido a sus despiadados ataques a los barcos españoles que vienen de las Indias. Con su labia y su verborrea consigue que el pánfilo monarca inglés Guillermo III contrate sus servicios para escoltar los barcos de la Corona provenientes de Asia cargados de tesoros. En uno de esos viajas trabará enemistad con el noble y honesto Oficial Británico de la Armada Inglesa Adam Mercy.
St.Martins Lane-1938-Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh Sidewalks of London AKA St.Martins Lane Stars: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, British Thriller-London On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
MYSTERY GUEST: Charles Laughton PANEL: Arlene Francis, Steve Allen, Dorothy Kilgallen, Martin Gabel
Charles Laughton became the first actor in a British film to win an Oscar for his portrayal of the much-married monarch in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933). In this famous scene, he's in a state of fury at having been nagged by all and sundry, including the royal barber, to marry yet again, despite having had three wives already. By the end of the film he has had six wives, the fifth of whom, Catherine Howard (played here by Binnie Barnes) sings to him during dinner once he's finished demolishing his chicken.
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Full titles read: "Audio Interviews - Charles Laughton - The Well-known Actor, talks about his "make-up" for 'On the Spot'." London. In what seems to be the Pathe Studios, we see a mock-up of an actor's dressing room. Charles Laughton enters and is helped on with his dressing-gown by a male dresser. Laughton asks "Has he called the half yet, Brown?"; the dresser replies "Not yet, sir". Laughton sits at the dressing table, asks for a towel and begins combing his hair. He then turns to the camera and says "The main idea about this make-up is to make myself look less like a pudding, and more like a Chicago-Italian gangster than usual - observe the secrets of the boudoir...". He turns back towards the mirror and we see various shots of him applying his stage make-up. Laughton's v...
I've always liked this reading by Charles Laughton that's often played on the radio at Thanksgiving. Just lovely.
The great actor, art collector and story teller, Charles Laughton talks about art and the Chartres Cathedral.
Herbert Stothart,an American arranger,conductor and composer was nominated for 12 Academy Awards winning for Best Original Score with 'The Wizard Of Oz' in 1939.His first nomination was for 'Mutiny On The Bounty' in 1935.This video presentation is for educational purposes and social commentary only.No copyright infringement is intended.
Part of the Red Theater's collection of classic radio shows. Orson Welles Radio Almanac 03/15/44, episode 8 1944 This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group At Yahoo
Part of the Red Theater's collection of classic radio shows. Abbott and Costello 02/10/44, episode 52 1944 OTR This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group at Yahoo. www.otrr.org 111
En 1699, el capitán Kidd, un rudo pirata, consigue engañar al rey para que le proporcione una escolta para un barco lleno de tesoros que ha zarpado de la India. La tripulación está formada por expresidiarios, entre los cuales se encuentra Orange Povey, a quien Kidd había abandonado tiempo atrás en un arrecife y al que esperaba no volver a ver. (FILMAFFINITY)