Word: laughton
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...many in the audience, the film seemed a bit like a 2¼-hour filibuster in black and white. But there were some highlights, notable among them the performance of Charles Laughton as South Carolina's Senator Seab Cooley-in accents learned from careful study of the drawl of Mississippi's Senator John Stennis. The audience chuckled ruefully when Henry Fonda defined "a Washington, D.C., kind of lie: that's where I'm lying but he knows that I'm lying and he knows that I know that he knows that I'm lying...
...Samuel Abbott has transformed himself into a most excellently bloated and insufferable Tolloller. He has managed, somehow, to blend the most absurd elements of Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov into one vast horror of inane snobbery and scented incompetence. Only Mr. Abbott's Tolloller could have successfully produced, as he did, the quintessential Gilbertian line: "We were boys together;--at least...
...deals with the passions and principles set in motion when the President nominates a new Secretary of State. Washington, for all its worldliness, was entranced with the junta that Preminger brought in from Hollywood: President Franchot Tone, Vice President Lew Ayres, Majority Leader Walter Pidgeon, Powerful Southern Senator Charles Laughton, Secretary of State-designate Henry Fonda...
...Good. At a National Press Club luncheon, Preminger got a standing ovation usually reserved for potentates from lands other than Hollywood, and he took it in his usual snide. The audience called on Actor Laughton to display his Southern drawl, newly acquired after a careful study of the delivery of Mississippi's real-life Senator John Stennis. Preminger vetoed it. "Meester Laughton," said he, "vill not do it because I vill not allow it." He also ignored the suggestion that the theme of Advise and Consent might evoke a questionable image of the U.S. abroad. He has prudently eliminated...
Tennessee Ernie Ford (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.).* Guest: Charles Laughton...