Turner Classic Movies & Universal Studios Home Entertainment Team Up to Offer Made-to-Order DVDs of Rare Films Oct 29, 2009
The Devil and the Deep (1932) - This melodrama is headlined by Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant and Charles Laughton. The setting is the northern coast of Africa, where submarine commander Laughton is stationed and where his wife, Bankhead, is splitting her time between suitors Cooper and Grant. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Daily TV and radio guide Oct 17, 2009
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable. NR (1935). (Boston Globe)
Deciding the fate of America's aged: not for me Aug 18, 2009
For instance, my little grandson looked like hell in his ultrasound photographs, all cheese-covered and globulated, like actor Charles Laughton. And yet he has turned out to be a marvelous little guy. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Quentin over Fellini? "Annie Hall" over Antonioni? Jul 15, 2009
The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton 25. Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola 26. (Salon)
LETTER: Denying their rights won't get rid of gays Jun 4, 2009
The Question wrote on Jun 2, 2009 7:00 AM:" If you were to retroactively withdraw the accomplishments of gay people from history, you'd find yourself somewhere back in the Dark Ages, at least.Subtract the achievements of these: Alexander the Great, Socrates, Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted, Edward II, Saladin, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Byron, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, E.M. Forster, Tchaikovsky, Marcel Proust, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Julius Caesar, Pope Julius... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Island of Lost Souls Movie (1932) May 23, 2009
Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi Star in Science Fiction Film. Charles Laughton stars as Dr. Moreau in the 1932 sci-fi/horror movie Island of Lost Souls ... Charles Laughton stars as H.G. Wells' mad scientist, with Bela Lugosi and Richard Arlen also on board. (Suite101.com)
New on DVD: 'Taken,' 'Last Chance Harvey' May 15, 2009
This classy set's sellers are 1933's The Private Life of Henry VIII, which got Charles Laughton his Oscar, partly for doing such memorable scenes eating chicken, and 1936's Laughton triumph Rembrandt, one of the most satisfying screen portraits of a painter. In between are two from 1934: The Rise of Catherine the Great with Elisabeth Bergner (released seven months before Marlene Dietrich's The Scarlet Empress) and The Private Life of Don Juan. (USA Today -- Life)
Global art star May 14, 2009
The Ur-biopic, directed by Alexander Korda, with Charles Laughton in the lead. The Moon and Sixpence (1942). (USA Today)
Raising cane Apr 12, 2009
Not as good as Clark Gable, perhaps, but at least as good as Charles Laughton ... Nineteen-thirty-five was a big year for Australia because Mutiny on the Bounty, with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton, was the top box office movie in the world and therefore the attention of the entire planet was on the South Pacific, a circumstance which always tends to turn the collective head of the Australian media ... Not as good as Clark Gable, perhaps, but at least as good as Charles Laughton. (BBC News -- UK)
New on DVD: Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' Mar 6, 2009
Portly Charles Laughton was never one's idea of a cute date. But he is here. (USA Today -- Life)
DVD Report: This week's new releases Feb 22, 2009
Charles Laughton is in fine, comically cantankerous form for director David Lean as a boot-shop owner clashing with his independent daughter in Victorian England. Extras: Film scholar commentary; BBC Laughton documentary. (Boston Globe)
Family affair for Pitt, Jolie at Oscars Feb 20, 2009
Similarly, husband and wife nominees Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton, given nods in 1958 for their performances in Billy Wilder's "Witness for the Prosecution" were both overlooked. One of the few acting couples to have tasted success on Oscar night were Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. (Xinhuanet, China)
Charles Laughton, scene stealer Feb 20, 2009
Few actors could deliver a line with as much gusto as Charles Laughton ... Charles Laughton and Tyrone Power in Witness for the Prosecution. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
