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Laughton and turned
He turned it down ( the job ultimately went to Richard Burton ) and, on 1 November 1952, left on a ten week national tour with John Brown's Body, a three-person dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Benét's narrative poem, adapted and directed by Charles Laughton, and featuring Power, Judith Anderson and Raymond Massey ; which culminated in a run of 65 shows between February and April 1953 at the New Century Theater on Broadway.

Laughton and out
MGM started Milland out in films such as Payment Deferred ( 1932 ) starring Charles Laughton.
McLaglen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, beating out Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone for the better-remembered Mutiny on the Bounty, and Ford won Best Director.
In 1946, after playing roles that had him wandering in and out of the saddle for many years, including a role alongside Charles Laughton in the cheaply made production Captain Kidd ( 1945 ), Scott appeared in Abilene Town, a UA release which cast him in what would become one of his classic images, the fearless lawman cleaning up a lawless town.
Before the year was out, de Brome had purchased two tenements in Oxford, Tackley's Inn and Perilous Hall, the college, later called Oriel College, was declared to be for the study of theology and the ars dialectica and John de Laughton was appointed the first Rector.
He directed 14 plays at Stratford ; Denison singles out Antony and Cleopatra with Michael Redgrave and Ashcroft, Macbeth with Olivier and Vivien Leigh, As You Like It with Ashcroft, Othello with Harry Andrews and Emlyn Williams, and King Lear with Charles Laughton and Albert Finney.

Laughton and other
" On the other hand, David Shipman, in his book The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years, said " Laughton was a total actor.
Laughton conceived the piece as a staged reading and cast Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke, and Agnes Moorehead ( billed as " The First Drama Quartette ") in the other roles.
All his other titles became extinct except for the Pelham Baronetcy of Laughton and the barony of Pelham of Stanmer, which were passed on to his first cousin once removed, Thomas Pelham ( for further history of these titles, see the Earl of Chichester ).
Although Laughton was the main star and there were seven other acts on the show, Elvis was on camera for more than a quarter of the time allotted to all acts.
Losey had co-directed the original U. S. production of Galileo with the author himself as the other co-director ( and Charles Laughton, who had worked on the translation / adaptation, had had the lead role, taken in the film by Topol ).
After emigrating to the United States from Hitler's Germany ( with stopovers in various other countries in between, among them the USSR ), Brecht translated and re-worked the first version of his play in collaboration with the actor Charles Laughton.
Doug Laughton returned to the club in January 1986 and began a series of signings of players from other league clubs and from rugby union.

Laughton and memorable
He played Dr. David Livingstone opposite Spencer Tracy's Henry Morton Stanley in the 1939 film Stanley and Livingstone and was also memorable that year as Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Charles Laughton as Quasimodo.
Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh recite this poem in the memorable classic film " Sidewalks of London ", also known as St. Martins Lane.

Laughton and performances
They both received Academy Award nominations for their performances in Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ) — Laughton for Best Actor, and Lanchester for Best Supporting Actress — but neither won.
It ran for 250 performances with Charles Laughton in the role of Poirot.

Laughton and during
This third act is often performed separately as a play in its own right, most famously during the 1950s in a concert version, featuring Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Charles Laughton as the Devil, Cedric Hardwicke as the Commander and Agnes Moorehead as Doña Ana.

Laughton and first
The first actor to portray Hercule Poirot was Charles Laughton.
His career began in the theatre ; he made his first appearance on the London stage in 1958 in Jane Arden's The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who starred in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester.
Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926.
Finally allowed by his family to become a drama student at RADA in 1925, Laughton made his first professional stage appearance on 28 April 1926 at the Barnes Theatre, as Osip in the comedy The Government Inspector, in which he also appeared at the London Gaiety Theatre in May.
Laughton made his first color film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower ( 1949 ) and, wrote the Monthly Film Bulletin, " appeared to overact " alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door in 1951.
Laughton was the fill-in host on 9 September 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first of three appearances on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show, which garnered 72 million viewers ( Ed Sullivan was recuperating from a car accident ).
That same year, Laughton hosted the first of two programs devoted to classical music entitled " Festival of Music ", and telecast on the NBC television anthology series Producers ' Showcase.
* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1693 – 1768 ), a nephew of John Holles, 1st Duke, died without male issue, and his father's Laughton Barony and Baronetcy, his Earldom and his first Dukedom went extinct
Her cabaret and nightclub appearances appearances led to more serious stage work and it was in a play by Arnold Bennett called Mr. Prohack ( 1927 ) that Elsa first met another member of the cast, a rising actor named Charles Laughton.
Townshend was twice married — first to Elizabeth ( d. 1711 ), daughter of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton, and secondly to Dorothy Walpole ( 1686 – 1726 ), sister of Sir Robert Walpole.
The first version of the play was written between 1937 and 1939 ; the second ( or ' American ') version was written between 1945 – 1947, in collaboration with Charles Laughton.
Another major influence on Corbett was Professor John Knox Laughton, arguably the first naval historian, and of whom Corbett has been described as his ' protégé '.
After Whale had moved to Hollywood and found success with Journey's End and Frankenstein, the director was commissioned to direct the screen adaptation of J. B. Priestley's Benighted as The Old Dark House, starring Charles Laughton in his first American film together with Boris Karloff and Raymond Massey.
The movie also stars Melvyn Douglas and features Charles Laughton ( in his first Hollywood film ), Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey, and Gloria Stuart as the ingenue.
He was educated at Stonyhurst College where he was the first student to win the Charles Laughton prize for acting for his roles in Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat ( he played Pharaoh ) and Amadeus ( he played Mozart ).

Laughton and Hollywood
In the West, Meher Baba met with a number of celebrities and artists, including Hollywood notables Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff, Tom Mix, Maurice Chevalier, Ernst Lubitsch and others.
Laughton soon gave up the stage in preference for a film career and returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman ( 1933 ) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle.
After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.
Laughton's bisexuality has been corroborated by several of his contemporaries and is generally accepted by Hollywood historians, However, actress Maureen O ' Hara, a friend and co-star of Laughton, claimed that Laughton told her that he and his wife never had children because of a botched abortion which Lanchester had early in her career while performing burlesque and that indeed his biggest regret was never having children of his own.
Laughton was by now making films in Hollywood so Lanchester joined him there, making minor appearances in David Copperfield ( 1935 ) and Naughty Marietta ( 1935 ).
Laughton was so pleased with O ' Hara's performance that he cast her in the role of Esmeralda opposite him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), which was to be filmed at RKO Studios in Hollywood that same year.

Laughton and stage
Charles Laughton ( 1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962 ) was an English-born American stage and film actor and director.
Laughton commenced his film career in England while still acting on the London stage.
Laughton made his London stage debut in Gogol's The Government Inspector ( 1926 ).
Laughton returned to the London stage in May 1958 to direct and star in Jane Arden's The Party at the New Theatre which also had Elsa Lanchester and Albert Finney in the cast.
In 1927, Laughton began a relationship with Elsa Lanchester, at the time a cast mate in a stage play.
In the 1950s, Moorehead continued to work in films and to appear on stage across the country, including a national tour of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, co-starring Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, and Cedric Hardwicke.
Throughout his illustrious career, Richard Garrick performed along with some of the brightest actors and actresses in stage and film history, including James Arness, Ed Begley, Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, James Dean, Julie Harris, Brian Keith, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Victor Mature, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Patricia Neal, Donald O ' Connor, Maureen O ' Sullivan, Anthony Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Jean Simmons, Richard Todd, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Dennis Weaver and Richard Widmark.
The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. ( 1923 ) and Charles Laughton ( 1939 ), as well as the 1996 Disney animated adaptation.
A number of former pupils have gone on to achieve success upon the stage, including OSCAR-winning actor and director Charles Laughton and BAFTA-winning director and producer Peter Glenville.

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