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Shaw knew an actor when he saw one. Within twelve months Laughton appeared in eight West End plays, and kept on climbing. In 1929 he married Elsa Lanchester, who had played his secretary in Arnold Bennett's Mr. Prohack. Elsa, a redhead, was the toast of the Bloomsbury intellectuals. She had danced with Isadora Duncan, was part-owner of a hole-in-the-wall nightclub, and was getting tired of being called "elfin." In her elfin book, Charles Laughton and I, Elsa says they first became interested in one another when they discovered that, though ordinarily gabby, they were...
Proust to Plato. Offstage, the Laughtons live a quietly busy life in a small (for Hollywood), eleven-room house that has little ground of its own but, happily, faces on 50 acres of a neighbor's orchards. Elsa works steadily at her non-paying job with Hollywood's Turnabout Theater (TIME, May 24, 1948), and shuttles between nightclub engagements in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Charles has rearranged their living room into a studio where he trains the dedicated and largely unknown young actors of the Charles Laughton Players. When he goes to bed, he surrounds himself with books...
...Screenwriter Les River, who wailed that an automobile had killed his cat, leaving her four nursing kittens starving. Rose found a foster mother. Now the cat-loving James Masons oblige in such emergencies. When the noise of gravel trucks disturbed the home rehearsals of Cinemactress Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton), Rose persuaded the truckers to change their hours. In last week's storm, the Crier sprang into action, helped to set up an aid station complete with registered nurse and hot coffee, organized work crews...
...passengers off." But how? Swooping lifeboats from the rescue vessels dared come little closer than a hundred yards amid the crazy welter of water; the Flying Enterprise boats were disabled or waterlogged. In matter-of-fact tones, Carlsen ordered that all must jump. A brave woman passenger, Mrs. Elsa Muller, went first, was picked up by a boat from the Southland. After that, with lifebelts strapped tight, more leaped or were pushed into the sea. A crewman jumped with each passenger...
...early-century "Golden Age"; in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. In Minnesota, where her father emigrated from Norway and set up as a Methodist lay preacher, she played the organ at his revival meetings, worked her way to Manhattan stardom, made a million, at her farewell appearance in 1914 (as Elsa in Lohengrin) took 40 curtain calls...