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Night of the Hunter

USA, 1955, 91 mins, United Artists.
Prod
. Paul Gregory,
dir
. LAUGHTON,
sc
. James Agee,
from the novel by
Davis Grubb,
ph
. Stanley Cortez,
a.d
. Hilyard Brown,
ed
. Robert Golden,
mus
. Walter Schumann. With: Robert Mitchum (Preacher Harry Powell), Shelly Winters (Willa Harper), Lillian Gish (Rachel), Evelyn Varden (Icey), Peter Graves (Ben Harper), Billy Chapin (John), Sally Ann Brice (Pearl), James Gleason (Birdie), Don Beddoe (Walt), Gloria Castillo (Ruby).

Witness for the Prosecution

USA, 1957, 114 mins, United Artists.
Prod
. Arthur Hornblow,
dir
. Billy Wilder,
sc
. Billy Wilder and Harry Kurnitz,
based on the story and play by
Agatha Christie. With: LAUGHTON (Sir Wilfrid Robarts), Tyrone Power (Leonard Vole), Marlene Dietrich (Christine Vole), Elsa Lanchester (Miss Plimsoll), John Williams (Brogan-Moore), Henry Daniell (Mayhew), Ian Wolfe (Carter), Una O’Connor (Janet McKenzie), Torin Thatcher (Mr Myers), Francis Compton (Judge), Norma Varden (Mrs French), Philip Tonge (Inspector Hearne), Ruta Lee (Diana).

Under Ten Flags

USA, 1960, Paramount.
Prod
. Dino de Laurentiis,
dir
. Diulio Coletti,
sc
. Diulio Coletti, Ulrich Mohr. With: LAUGHTON (Admiral Russell), Van Heflin (Commander Reger), Mylene Demongeot (Zizi), John Ericson (Lieut. Kreuger), Liam Redmond (Cpt. Windsor), Cecil Parker (Col. Howard), Alex Nicol (Knocke), John Lee (Aide to Admiral Russell), Gregoire Aslan (Master of the Abdullah), Eleonora Rossi Drago (Sara), Gianmaria Uolonte (Braun), Peter Carsten (Mohr).

Spartacus

USA, 1960, 196 mins. Universal.
Prod
. Edward Lewis,
dir
. Stanley Kubrick,
sc
. Dalton Trumbo,
based on the novel by
Howard Fast,
ph
. Clifford Stine,
a.d
. Eric Orbom,
ed
. Robert Lawrence,
mus
. Alex North. With: LAUGHTON (Gracchus), Kirk Douglas (Spartacus), Laurence Olivier (Marcus Crassus), Tony Curtis (Antoninus), Jean Simmons (Varinia), Peter Ustinov (Batiatus), John Gavin (Julius Caesar), Nina Foch (Helena Glabrus), Herbert Lom (Tigranes), John Ireland (Crixus), John Dall (Glabrus), Charles McGraw (Marcellus), Joanna Barnes (Claudia Marius), Woody Strode (Draba), Harold J. Stone (David).

Advise and Consent

USA, 1962, 139 mins, Columbia Films.
Prod
. Otto Preminger,
dir
. Otto Preminger,
sc
. Wendell Mayes,
based on the novel by
Allen Drury,
ph
. Sam Leavitt,
mus
. Jerry Fielding.
With:
LAUGHTON (Seabright Cooley), Henry Fonda (Robert Leffingwell), Don Murray (Brigham Anderson), Walter Pidgeon (Senator Bob Munson), Peter Lawford (Senator Lafe Smith), Gene Tierney (Dolly Harrison), Franchot Tone (The President), Lew Ayres (Vice President), Burgess Meredith (Herbert Gelman), Eddie Hodges (Johnny Leffingwell), Paul Ford (Senator Stanley Dante), George Gizzard (Senator Van Ackerman) Inga Swenson (Ellen Anderson), Paul McGrath (Hardiman Fletcher), Will Geer (Senate Minority Leader), Betty White (Bessie Adams).

The Discs

CHARLES LAUGHTON

78 rpm discs

Regal Zonophone MR 1234 – ‘Voice of the Stars’, 1934, featuring excerpt from soundtrack of ‘The Private Life of Henry VIII’.

VS2 – ‘Voice of the Stars – Jubilee Edition’ – No. 2, 1935, featuring excerpt from ‘The Barratts of Wimpole Street’.

VS3 – ‘Voice of the Stars’ – No. 3, 1936, featuring excerpt from ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’.

VS4 – ‘Voice of the Stars – Coronation Edition’ – No. 4, 1937, featuring excerpt from ‘I Claudius’.

Regal Zonophone MR 2722 – ‘Voice of the Stars’ – VS5, 1938, featuring excerpt from ‘Vessel of Wrath’.

American Columbia S–271–M recorded in Los Angeles, 6 January 1937, Lincoln’s Gettysburgh Address.

American Decca Album DA–379, 29M Personality Series. DA 29151/2, recorded in Hollywood in 1944. ‘Mr Pickwick’s Christmas’ by Charles Dickens with original musical accompaniment composed and conducted by Hanns Eisler; subsequently transferred to LP: Decca DL–8010 (USA); ‘Ace of Hearts’ AH 127 (UK).

American Decca Sets DU-15/16/17/18 ‘Readings from the Bible’. Issued 1948; subsequently transferred to LP:/ Decca DL-8031; Brunswick LAT 8275.

Australian Decca Y 5917 – ‘Oldest Christmas Story’ and ‘Story of the Three Wise Men’ (Reading with Musical Background).

Record No. 45770A – ‘The American Way Contests’, c. 1950, Radio Commercial.

Long-playing Records

AEI 2121 – ‘Greetings from Hollywood’ – from radio broadcast c. 1950, ‘Baby it’s cold outside’ with Elsa Lanchester and orchestral accompaniment.

Decca DL–5146. Decca DL-9071. ‘Moby Dick’.

Decca DL-8010 (from 78rpm listed above). ‘Mr Pickwick’s Christmas’.

Decca DL-8031 (USA); Brunswick LAT 8275 (UK); Coral CP 34, ‘Readings from the Bible’, (from 78rpm listed above).

Columbia OSL–166, 2-disc set recorded 1952, ‘Don Juan in Hell’ by George Bernard Shaw, with Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead.

Capitol TBO 1650 (mono)/STBO 1650 (stereo) (2-disc set), ‘The Story-Teller: A session with Charles Laughton’ – excerpts on Ember LP CEL 907 m/s.

Pelican 114 – Radio Broadcast of 1945, ‘The Canterville Ghost’ with Margaret O’Brien.

RCA LPM 1136s – ‘Night of the Hunter’, reading based on the 1955 film and book; with chorus and orchestra.

Star-Tone 203 – ‘Calling All Stars’ – Radio Shows.

4-Murray Hill 937239 – ‘Hollywood’s Heroes on the Air’ – Radio Shows.

Vogue VA 160126, Hi-Fi Records 405, 1958, ‘Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room’, Elsa Lanchester, with Ray Henderson (piano) – remarks by Charles Laughton.

Vogue VA 160139, Hi-Fi Records 406, ‘Songs for a Shuttered Parlor’, Elsa Lanchester, with Ray Henderson (piano) – remarks by Charles Laughton.

ELSA LANCHESTER

78 rpm discs

Columbia 4125 – ‘Please sell no more drink to my father’ and ‘He didn’t oughter’ (‘Riverside Nights’), with Harold Scott, piano. Recorded in London on 26 August 1926.

Columbia DB 81 – ‘Don’t tell my mother I’m living in sin’ and ‘The Ladies Bar’ with Harold Scott, piano. Recorded in London on 14 February 1930. (Two takes of each song had already been recorded 14 January 1930 but were rejected.)

LP records

CBS SBRG 72063s – Stravinsky’s ‘The Flood’ (as Noah’s wife) (conducted by the composer) (recorded 1962).

Decca DL 4833/Brunswick LAT 8678 – Features extract from ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’.

Parlophone PMC 7141 – ‘All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing’ – ‘Great Movie Stars of the ’30s’ – features ‘Don’t tell my mother I’m living in Sin’ from 1930 Columbia 78 above.

Verve MG V-15015/HMV CLP 1417 – ‘Cockney London’ – Songs with Ray Henderson (piano).

Verve V–15024 – ‘Elsa Lanchester – Herself’ – An Intimate Musical Review (Censored by Charles Laughton).

Vogue VA 160126 (Hi Fi Records) – ‘Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room’ with Charles Laughton’s introductions.

Vogue VA 160139 (Hi Fi Records) – ‘Songs for a Shuttered Parlor’ with Charles Laughton’s introductions.

Sources

While I was writing this book, Elsa Lanchester was dying; just before I finished it, she was dead. I never spoke to her, but I did have access to the twenty-six boxes of material in the Charles Laughton Collection, donated to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964. I have conducted over fifty personal interviews, and read (I believe) every extant published word written about Laughton, including biographies, scholarly studies, and movie magazines. John Beary and Oscar Lewenstein were kind enough to send me letters written by Laughton. But he was not a prolific letter-writer, and, for his own testimony about himself, I have had to rely largely on the two compilations that he published,
Tell Me A Story
and
The Fabulous Country
, which, both in their choice of material and in their linking commentaries, were held by Elsa Lanchester to give the best impression of what he was really like. I have quoted freely from them, and the one sustained piece of writing by him, from
The Fabulous Country
, is reprinted in the appendix to this book.

Otherwise my invaluable sources have been
Charles Laughton and I
, written by Elsa Lanchester in collaboration with Benita Armstrong, originally in serial form for the
Daily Express
, her second book,
Elsa Lanchester Herself
, and Charles Higham’s
Charles Laughton
. Mr Higham’s book was written, with full access to the papers, under Miss Lanchester’s auspices. These three books thus all reflect her viewpoint, and have therefore been used with respectful caution.

S.C
.

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A Victorian in Orbit
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Hollywood
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One Hundred Different Lives
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Milland, Ray.
Wide-Eyed in Babylon
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Taylor, John Russell.
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French Leave
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Index

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Abbot and Costello meet Captain Kid
, 219–20, 317

Advise and Consent
, 149, 232, 274–5, 276, 277, 318

Agate, James, 16, 17, 21, 32, 38, 40, 53, 57, 61, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 75, 79, 81–82, 85, 91–2, 104, 112, 130, 133, 156, 165–6, 178

Agee, James, 158, 235

Ainley, Henry, 13

Alibi
, 26–7, 43–4, 308

Allen, John, 78–9

Anderson, Judith, 223–4

Angela
, 307

Arch of Triumph
, 184, 316

Arden, Jane, 248–9, 259

Arnold, Malcolm, 228

Aynesworth, Allan, 13

Badel, Alan, 226

Bagnold, Enid, 258, 259, 269

Bankhead, Tallulah, 29, 50, 51

Banks, Leslie, 130

Banks, Monte, 36

Barnes, Dr. Albert, 107

Barnes, Binnie, 60

Barnes, Kenneth, 11–13

Barnes Theatre, 13

Barrett, Wilson, 52

Barretts of Wimpole Street, The
, 84–6, 313

Barrie, J. M., 112

Barrymore, Ethel, 185

Baylis, Lilian, 58, 67, 68, 72, 79, 83

Bazzi, Maria, 209

Beachcomber, The
, 131

Beaumont, Binkie, 13

Beauty
, 30, 308

Because of Him
, 104, 177, 179

Belita, 34, 206, 207, 286

Bennett, Arnold, 18–20, 47

Bentley, Eric, 189, 194, 195, 197, 198, 201, 216, 230, 233, 259

Berlau, Ruth, 185, 190, 191, 194, 198

Bernstein, Sidney, 19

Bickford, Charles, 64

Big Clock, The
, 186–8, 316

Birò, Lajos, 60, 102, 104

Blakemore, Michael, 255, 257, 263, 264, 265, 271

Blue Bottles
, 306

Blue Veil, The
, 311

Bogeaus, Benedict, 178, 200

Boland, Mary, 89

Boleslavsky, Richard, 93–4

Boyer, Charles, 152, 153, 215, 216

Brecht, Bertolt, 56, 84, 106, 168–81, 181–200

Bribe, The
, 204–5, 317

Byam Shaw, Glen, 252, 253, 254, 257, 263, 264, 265, 267, 270

Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The
, 230–3, 311

Canterville Ghost, The
, 158–9, 316

Captain Kidd
, 177–9, 316

Carter, Ken, 266–9

Casson, Lewis, 16, 17

Checkmate
, 274, 276

Cherry Orchard, The
, 15, 65, 66–7, 207–9, 306, 310

Cheston, Dorothy, 19

Chevalier, Maurice, 107, 108

Christie, Agatha, 26, 246

Chu-Chin-Chow
, 8

Clair, René, 92, 113

Clements, John, 109, 217

Cochran, C. B., 15, 30

Cohn, Harry, 225, 226

Comets
, 45, 46

Cooper, Gary, 50, 51, 56, 98, 203

Cortez, Stanley, 206, 220, 235–6, 239–40, 241, 242

Cotrell, Bill, 201

Cukor, George, 86, 87, 88

Cyrano de Bergerac
, 96, 102–4, 179

Dane, Clemence, 124, 127, 128, 130

Daniell, Henry, 167, 178, 246

Dassin, Jules, 158

David Copperfield
, 86

Day Dreams
, 312

Dean, Basil, 29

Dell, Jeffrey, 38

Devil and the Deep
, 48, 50–1, 312

Dharma Bums, The
, 212

Dieterle, William, 134–5, 137, 225

Dietrich, Marlene, 113, 114, 246, 247

Disney, Walt, 63, 101

Don Juan In Hell
, 215–9, 311

Donat, Robert, 60, 229

Doubleday, Nelson, 42

Douglas, Kirk, 252

Douglas, Melvyn, 48

Down River
, 46, 312

Drake, Fabia, 69–70, 75

Drama Quartette, The, 215–19

Dudgeon, Elspeth, 49

Dull, Leonard & Orville, 157

Dupont, Ewald A., 46

Durbin, Deanna, 150, 158, 179, 283

Duvivier, Julien, 153

Eisler, Hanns, 173, 181, 184, 193

Elsa Lanchester – Herself
, 272–3

Epic That Never Was, The
, 118

Evans, Edith, 16, 258

Fabulous Country, The
, 43, 293–305

Fagan, J. B., 16–17

Farquharson, Robert, 67

Farrow, John, 187

Fatal Alibi
, 43–4

Fenby, Eric 7, 132

Fields, W. C. 56, 86, 90

Finney, Albert, 248, 251, 257, 262, 290

Fonda, Henry, 152, 230–2

Forever and a Day
, 156, 315

Franklin, Sidney, 84, 85, 86, 227

Frazin, Gladys, 36–7

French Leave
, 32, 309

Gable, Clark, 97–8, 100, 101

Gachet, Alice, 12, 107

Galileo, The Life of
, 171, 172, 174–6, 177, 181–200, 269, 310

Gardner, Ava, 204

Gargan, William, 144, 147–8

Garmes, Lee, 104

Gielgud, John, 73, 206, 254, 258, 266

Girl from Manhattan, The
, 200–1, 317

Gish, Lilian, 234–5, 236, 237–8

Gordon, Ruth, 43, 208, 209

Goring, Marius, 47, 65, 66, 68, 70, 76, 78, 79, 109

The Government Inspector
, 13, 306

Granger, Stewart, 225, 226

Graves, Robert, 122

The Greater Love
, 16–17, 306

Green, Dorothy, 11, 12

Gregory, Paul, 209–10, 213, 214–15, 221–2, 229, 230, 231, 233–4, 237, 241, 242, 243–4, 284

Guinness, Alec, 66, 83, 244, 247

Guthrie, Tyrone, 19, 57, 65–81, 84, 113, 124, 128

Hall, Peter, 257, 259, 262, 263, 264, 269, 271

Hambleton, Edward, 185, 186, 189, 269

Happy Husband, The
, 307

Hardwicke, Cedric, 84, 92, 156, 215, 217, 226

Harris, Jed, 44, 217

Harrison, Rex, 127

Hayworth, Rita, 225

Henry VIII
, 67–8, 309

Hitchcock, Alfred, 19, 56, 130–2, 185

Hobson’s Choice
, 10, 90, 227–9, 318

Hobson, Harold, 268

Holm, Ian, 264, 269

Horner, Harry, 209

Houseman, John, 186, 190–1, 216, 217

Howard, Sidney, 144

Hubley, John, 189

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
, 134–9, 314

Hunt, Martita, 14

Huntley, Raymond, 109

I, Claudius
, 113–22, 314

If I Had A Million
, 55–6, 312

Importance of Being Earnest, The
, 73, 310

In the Presence of Mine Enemies
, 272

Isherwood, Christopher, 28, 213, 269, 277, 279, 287, 289–91

Island of Lost Souls
, 54, 313

It Started With Eve
, 150–1, 315

Jamaica Inn
, 124, 130–2, 314

Jeans, Ursula, 65

Jenkins, Terry, 287–9, 291–2

John Brown’s Body
, 221–5, 311

Kanin, Garson, 85, 89, 145–9, 208–9

Karloff, Boris, 49, 214

Keaton, Buster, 156

Kenton, Earle, 54

King Lear
, 83, 179, 252–71, 311

Kipling, Rudyard, 35

Knoblock, Edward, 19

Komisarjevsky, Theodore, 13–15, 19–22

Korda, Alexander, 59–63, 96, 102–16, 120–22, 227, 279

Koster, Henry, 150, 155, 179, 220

Kubrick, Stanley, 252–3

Lanchester, Elsa, 5, 21–2, 27, 37–41, 44, 52, 54, 60, 69–81, 108–9, 124, 143, 153, 187, 218, 244, 251, 256–7, 263, 278–85, 289, 290, 295

Lasky, Jesse, 45, 50–1

Laughton, Elizabeth, 3–7, 29, 281

Laughton, Frank, 3–5, 281, 289–90

Laughton, Robert, 3–5, 7, 11

Laughton, Tom, 3–5, 7, 11, 131, 289

Lawrence, Gertrude, 109, 111

Lean, David, 227–9, 244

Leigh, Vivien, 127–8

Leonard, Robert Z., 157, 204

Leontovich, Eugénie, 207

Levy, Benn, 22–4, 45–8, 51

Life of Galileo, The
, 171–2, 174–8, 180–200, 269, 310

Liliom
, 15, 306

Livesey, Roger, 69, 71–2, 76, 79, 81, 108–9

Lloyd, Frank, 97

Lloyd, Norman, 169–70, 184, 186, 190, 192, 210

Lombard, Carole, 63, 144–7

Losey, Joseph, 44, 184–5, 190–1, 197, 199–200

Love For Love
, 72, 80, 310

Lubitsch, Ernst, 55

Lugosi, Bela, 55

Lupino, Richard, 208, 245–6

Macbeth
, 73–6, 78, 80, 82, 310

Macrae, Arthur, 88

Mailer, Norman, 242–3

Major Barbara
, 244–5, 311

Making of an Immortal, The
, 26, 307

Manessier, Albert, 56, 264

Man from Down Under, The
, 157, 315

Man on the Eiffel Tower, The
, 205–6, 317

Man with Red Hair
, A, 22–5, 307

Mannin, Ethel, 281–2

March, Frederic, 84, 92

Marshall, Norman, 14

Mason, James, 65–71, 79, 81

Massey, Raymond, 31, 48–9, 117, 222–4

Maugham, Somerset, 124

du Maurier, Daphne, 124

du Maurier, Gerald, 8, 27, 51, 57, 79, 112

Maxwell, John, 124, 131

Measure For Measure
, 68–71, 309

Medea
, 18, 307

Mendes, Lothar, 53

Meredith, Burgess, 200, 206, 245, 278

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
, 259–63, 311

Milestone, Lewis, 184

Milland, Ray, 187

de Mille, Cecil B., 52–3

Miracle Can Happen, A
, 200, 201

Misérables, Les
, 92–6, 101, 314

Mitchum, Robert, 234, 236, 237–40, 285

Monroe, Marilyn, 220

Moore, Eva, 49

Moore, Henry, 56, 212

Moorehead, Agnes, 215

Morahan, Tom, 104, 124, 127, 130

Morgan, Henry, 187

Mr. Pickwick
, 308

Mr. Prohack
, 18–21, 307

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 35

Mutiny On The Bounty
, 96–101, 314

McCarey, Leo, 88, 89

McLeod, Norman Z., 158

Naked
, 18, 307

Naked and the Dead, The
242–3

Newton, Robert, 124, 130

Nichols, Dudley, 159, 163

Night of the Hunter
, 234–43, 318

Nolte, Charles, 230–1

Novello, Ivor, 15

Oberon, Merle, 60, 114, 121–2

O’Brien, Margaret, 150, 158, 283

O’Casey, Sean, 30–1

O’Connor, Una, 160

O’Hara, Maureen, 130, 132, 133, 150, 158, 160, 161, 163, 283

O. Henry’s Full House
, 220, 317

Old Dark House, The
, 48–50, 312

Olivier, Laurence, 8, 18, 26, 43, 48, 77, 84, 138, 143, 171, 192, 206, 217–18, 240–1, 248, 252, 253–5, 258, 266, 271, 294

On Our Merry Way
, 200, 201, 317

On The Spot
, 32–8, 42, 309

O’Sullivan, Maureen, 54, 86, 187, 283

Owen, Reginald, 178

Paradine Case, The
, 185, 316

Party, The
, 248–52, 258, 311

Paul I
, 19, 307

Payment Deferred
, 38–40, 42, 53–4

Périnal, Georges, 60, 108

Peter Pan
, 111–13, 310

Phaedrus
, 213

Piccadilly
, 46, 312

Pickwick Papers, The
, 29, 308

Pillars of Society
, 306

Pitts, Zasu, 87

Pommer, Erich, 122, 123–33, 149–50, 279

Powell, Dick, 230–1

Power Tyrone, 221–3, 246, 247

Preminger, Otto, 19, 56, 274–5, 290

Priestley, J. B. 48, 130, 216

Private Life of Henry VIII, The
, 25, 59–63, 309

Quartermaine, Leon, 65

Raft, George, 56

Rains, Claude, 11–13

Redford, Robert, 272

Remarque, Erich Maria, 184

Rembrandt
, 104, 107, 109–11, 154, 165, 314

Renoir, Jean, 56, 155, 157, 160, 163–4, 290

Reyher, Ferdinand, 174

Richardson, Ralph, 117

Ridgeway, Philip, 13

Riverside Nights
, 308

Robertson, Sir Johnston Forbes, 13

Robson, Flora, 23, 57, 65–9, 72–5, 79, 98, 117

Ruggles, Charles, 56, 89

Ruggles of Red Gap
, 88–92, 101, 154, 313

St Martin’s Lane
, 87, 124, 127–31, 314

Salome
, 225–6, 318

Sanders, Terry & Denis, 236, 242, 257, 285

Schumann, Walter, 223, 239

Selznick, David O., 86, 185, 200

Seyler, Athene, 65, 72

Shaw, George Bernard, 13, 215, 244–6

Shearer, Norma, 85, 86

Sidewalks of London, The
, 128

Silver Tassie, The
, 30–1, 160, 308

Sign of the Cross, The
, 52–4, 312

Simmons, Jean, 226, 252

Siodmak, Robert, 19, 167

Sitwell, Osbert, 4, 7, 11, 19

Slezak, Walter, 159, 162, 164–5

Spartacusj
, 252–5, 318

Stand by for Action
, 156–7, 315

Sternberg, Josef von, 90, 113–22

Strange Door, The
, 214

Struss, Karl, 54, 209

Suspect, The
165, 316

Tales of Manhattan
, 152–3, 315

Taylor, Kent, 64

Taylor, Robert, 204

Tell Me A Story
, 210, 232

Tempest, The
, 71–2, 309

Thalberg, Irving, 53, 84, 87, 97, 101, 134

Thesiger, Ernest, 48, 49

They Knew What They Wanted
, 144–9, 315

This Land Is Mine
, 109, 149, 159–64, 316

Thompson, Hepsebiah, 9

Thorndike, Sybil, 13, 16, 17, 18, 26

Three Sisters
, 15, 306

Todd, Ann, 185

Todd, Mike, 182–3

Tone, Franchot, 101, 206, 275

Tuttles of Tahiti, The
, 151, 152, 315

Tynan, Kenneth, 218–19, 250, 251, 260

Under Ten Flags
, 271–2, 318

Ustinov, Peter, 53, 158, 252, 253, 256, 286

Vanbrugh, Irene, 13

Vessel of Wrath
, 124–7, 131, 314

Viertel, Salka, 168, 181

Wagon Train
, 274

Wallace, Edgar, 32, 33, 34

Walpole, Hugh, 22, 26

Wanted Men
, 46

Weigel, Helene, 189–190, 191

Welles, Orson, 181–3, 192, 240, 277

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