In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson cuts the career of larger-than-life English actor Charles Laughton into conveniently bite-sized, dismissible chunks, noting that many of ...

AFTER the Old Vic season had finished, Charles and I went to Hollywood once more, and again at short notice. In fact, it seems that whenever we have gone to or come from Hollywood we have never had ...

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” better known in English as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” has enjoyed a long relationship with the big screen. The French, aptly enough, got there first ...

Charles Laughton thinks that the modern world has been brought up to look rather than to listen. This week he goes on TV with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers ...

Classic Hollywood during the studio system era (roughly 1925-55) is associated with glamorous images of beautiful women and handsome men like Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, and Errol Flynn, ...

AT the moment the item of actual interest to us movie people is the screen appearance of Charles Laughton. When he crossed over from London to give us “Payment Deferred” last fall he contributed one ...