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...first, Jamaica Inn, did not quite come off, due to friction between the bulgy Hitchcock and the bulky Charles Laughton egos. This time Hitchcock does it all his way, does a splendid job and has a splendid cast to do it with...
...leading serious actresses, she has played older parts since youth, has probably depicted as many queens-Queen Elizabeth, Empress Elizabeth, Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's Katharine-as any other living actress. With Robert Donat, she worked hard in a little shoestring theatre at Cambridge; with Charles Laughton she played for a season at London's Old Vic. When Ladies in Retirement closes, she will probably go to Hollywood instead of back to England, because "I can't be funny, and there's little use doing a serious play in London while...
...Vivien Leigh. For Cinemactress Leigh Sidewalks of London (made a year or so before Gone With the Wind entered its delayed birth pangs) must have been a dress rehearsal. Liberty (Vivien Leigh), the saucy, thieving cockney orphan, who selfishly climbs to stardom with the help of Charles Laughton, is Scarlett O'Hara's little sister under the grease paint. Smart Director Tim Whelan (Clouds over Europe) succeeds in making the atmosphere so realistically London that U. S. cinemaddicts have some trouble getting through the dialectical...
...been suggested that Charles Laughton be asked to play the part of the Altmark's skipper, and that Norway's permission be sought to film background scenes at Gjossingfjord. --Boston Evening Transcript...
...Starting Home, has grey-clad Germans holding up their hands in surrender, "because they had to quit before we could go home." Other ideas come to him from magazines, books, out of his head. A dozen people have bought his canvases, from Chester County socialites to Cinemactor Charles Laughton, who bought his Cabin in the Cotton...