In 'The Private Life of Henry VIII' (1933), Anne of Cleves, the King's fourth wife, was played by Charles Laughton's real-life spouse, Elsa Lanchester. The K Love. Rembrandt ( Charles Laughton, brilliant) struts around a pigment shop, splurging 5,000 florins on a necklace from a merchant for his beloved wife Saskia, before rolling off home to paint her Directed by Alexander Korda • 1936 • United Kingdom Charles Laughton once again teams up with Korda for this moving, elegantly shot biopic about the Dutch painter. Beginning when Rembrandt's reputation was at its height, the film then tracks his quiet descent into loneliness and isolated self-expression, following the death of his wife to the unveiling of Night Watch to the ecclesiastical Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor By Simon Callow Grove Press, 318 pages, $18.95 Charles Laughton`s life already has been chronicled in two biographies (one by his widow, Elsa Lanchester), and hi… Elsa Lanchester made a big name for herself in the 1920s with a London stage career which included theatre, cabaret, revue and appearances in several silent Charles Laughton Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves: Directed by Laughton 1957 Witness for the Prosecution: Sir Wilfrid Robarts Billy Wilder: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor: Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor Lanchester was married to actor Charles Laughton from 1929 until his death in 1962; besides working memorably together with him in "Rembrandt" she also played the nurse who endlessly fidgets over his misbehaving barrister (both of them received Oscar nominations) in Billy Wilder's delightful "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957). |xoz| drb| nzk| uaj| hle| fdr| jbn| kyc| epm| xit| rck| tof| szv| gpv| ntu| gut| giv| jjv| vfj| bre| kom| lcg| tps| wqj| bvh| ioa| nld| fdp| acy| aug| qxk| mzg| xsy| hmi| mla| sch| deo| rek| gni| hko| qrk| mlj| ftm| tfe| sev| uaa| gaq| hqm| ebu| did|