Word: laughtons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...current production, the first ever to reach Broadwav. is all the more noteworthy for its distinguished cast-Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead. Standing in evening clothes in front of mikes, they merely read the scene with an apparent absence of acting that conceals a great fund...
...Hell Scene could be shorter. But the characters score their points like polished duelists, flash their rhetoric like master showmen, make ideas hiss and coil and spring like creatures of melodrama. There are drawbacks to the performers, too: Charles Boyer's decided French accent and Charles Laughton's occasional tendency to ham. But in general, the quartet offers fine ensemble playing, with Boyer a magnetic Juan, Laughton a suavely smiling Devil...
...when a whole roomful can see a movie for the price of one). Television's shaggy old movies and annoying commercials are already driving people back to the movie theaters (look at the box-office figures). Said one spokesman: "They're getting tired of watching Charles Laughton, as King Henry the Eighth, tossing a chicken bone over his shoulder-smack into a singing bottle of 20th Century beer...
...museum on his Main Line estate at Merion, Pa. At the same time, he set up the Barnes Foundation to offer free art training to a limited number of carefully selected students a year. Since then, few besides foundation students and personal friends (including John Dewey, Katharine Cornell, Charles Laughton, Albert Einstein, Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts) have seen any of his pictures...
...those three years, Toast of the Town has also scored some notable firsts. Margaret Truman made her TV debut on the show. So did Bob Hope, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Sam Levenson, Faye Emerson, Vaughn Monroe. Charles Laughton used the show to launch the Bible readings that are now a staple of the lecture circuit; Gloria Swanson publicly revealed her belief in God, and Hedy Lamarr renounced the role of seductress long enough to sing RockaBye, Baby exactly as she does to her own children...