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...tortured Moor into three separate characters; later he got Actor Burgess Meredith to be anchor prince in a three-faceted Hamlet. To train graduate students, in 1959 he opened a stunning repertory theater in Dallas, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In baffled admiration, the late Charles Laughton once called Baker "crude, irritating, arrogant, nuts and a genius...
Died. Charles Laughton, 63, matchlessly versatile character actor of stage and screen; of cancer; in Hollywood. An English hotelkeeper's son, the rotund Laughton studied for the London stage, but his star rose on the screen with one tour de force after another-as a warmhearted gargoyle (Hunchback of Notre Dame), a thundering misanthrope (Mutiny on the Bounty), a ribald monarch (Henry VIII), an oratorical Southern senator (Advise and Consent). He was honored with Oscars, but cared little for the trappings of a star; as he himself said: "The truth is, I'm an incurable...
...give a drink of water to a dying man and his crew staged a mutiny. The incident inspired a trilogy of bestselling novels (1932-34) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and a supercolossal saga of the sea (1935) starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh. In 1959, figuring that the public was ready to stretch its sea legs again, M-G-M decided to refloat The Bounty. So the wind blew and the fish flew, and by the time MGM's weary crew got back from Tahiti it had used...
...Charles Laughton, 63, jowly, stentorian actor, spending his third month in a Hollywood hospital suffering from what his doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left...
Hollywood Special (ABC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution...