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What Emil Jannings was to the German, what Charles Laughton is to the English, Harry Baur has long been to the French cinema. As France's No. 1 character actor, however, his methods are his own. Above a body like a meal sack ap pears a face as soft as putty. On the face wriggle a corrugated nose, two eyebrows which appear to have disassociated sets of muscles. No dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This...
...annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance by an actor went to (1 Charles Laughton-Mutiny on the Bounty, 2 Charles Chaplin-Modern Times, 3 Leslie Howard-Petrified Forest, 4 Jean Hersholt - The Country Doctor, S Victor McLaglen-The Informer...
...When Director Korda left Hollywood in 1928, however, he had had enough of its methods to last him a lifetime. The Private Life of Henry VIII, which he produced on a shoestring in 1933 and which made cinema stars of five actors in the cast from Charles Laughton to Merle Oberon, got him the backing of Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd. It also gave him a chance to explore on a grand scale his own ideas about cinema production, crystallized by a distaste for those of the U. S. industry...
...attention of Universal in 1928. The studio bought it as a vehicle for Jean Hersholt. When Hersholt left to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the picture was postponed. In 1934 Director Howard Hawks worked on the story with Screenwriter Gene Fowler. In 1935 Universal made overtures to Charles Laughton to play the lead, but Laughton went to MGM for Mutiny on the Bounty. By last autumn Edward Arnold was signed to play the lead, but by that time there was a shortage of cash. Cheever Cowdin's option on the Universal studio supplied the funds. Production finally got under...
...Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall...