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Measure for Measure London
Old Vic, 4–20 Dec 1933, writ. W. Shakespeare, dir. Tyrone Guthrie. With: Roger Livesey (Vincentio), Frank Napier (Escalus), LAUGHTON (Angelo), Dennis Arundell (Lucio), Peter Copley (1st Gentleman), Peter Croft (2nd Gentleman), Athene Seyler (Mistress Overdone), Lawrence Baskcomb (Pompey), James Mason (Claudio), Ernest Hare (Provost), Elsa Lanchester (Juliet, A Singer), Marius Goring (Friar Peter, Abhorson), Flora Robson (Isabella), Evelyn Allen (Francisca), John Allen (A Justice), Morland Graham (Elbow), Desmond Walter-Ellis (Froth), Cecil Scott-Paton (Servant to Angelo), Ursula Jeans (Mariana), Morland Graham (Barnardine), Anna Brunton (Mistress Kate Keepdown).
The Tempest London
Wells, 8–20 Jan 1934.
Old Vic, 22 Jan–3 Feb 1934, writ. W. Shakespeare, dir. Tyrone Guthrie. With: Patrick Ross (Master of the Ship), John Allen (Boatswain), Marius Goring (King of Naples), Ernest Hare (Sebastian), Dennis Arundell (Antonio), Clifford Evans (Ferdinand), Evan John (Gonzalo), Ursula Jeans (Miranda), LAUGHTON (Prospero), Elsa Lanchester (Ariel), Roger Livesey (Caliban), Desmond Walter-Ellis (Adrian), James Mason (Francisco), Lawrence Baskcomb (Trinculo), Morland Graham (Stephano), Margaret Field-Hyde (Iris), Flora Robson (Ceres), Evelyn Allen (Juno).
The Importance of Being Earnest London
Old Vic, 5 Feb-3 Mar 1934, writ. Oscar Wilde, dir. Tyrone Guthrie. With: Morland Graham (Lane), George Curzon (Algernon Moncrieff), Roger Livesey (John Worthing), Athene Seyler (Lady Bracknell), Flora Robson (Gwendolen Fairfax), Elsa Lanchester (Miss Prism), Ursula Jeans (Cecily Cardew), LAUGHTON (Canon Chasuble), James Mason (Merriman).
Love for Love London
Wells, 6–31 Mar 1934, writ. W. Congreve, dir. Tyrone Guthrie, des. Vivian Forbes. With: Barrie Livesey (Valentine Legend), James Mason (Jeremy), Dennis Arundell (Scandal), Ernest Hare (Trapland), Marius Goring (Buckram), LAUGHTON (Tattle), Athene Seyler (Mrs Frail), Morland Graham (Foresight), Raymond Johnson (Servant), Margery Phipps-Walker (Servant to Miss Prue), Ursula Jeans (Angelica), Sam Livesey (Sir Sampson Legend), Flora Robson (Mrs Foresight), Elsa Lanchester (Miss Prue), Roger Livesey (Ben Legend), Alta Hershey (Jenny).
Macbeth London
Old Vic, 2–28 Apr 1934, writ. W. Shakespeare, dir. Tyrone Guthrie. With: Ernest Hare (Duncan, Seward), Marius Goring (Malcolm), Thorley Walters (Donalbain), John Moody (A Sergeant, 2nd Murderer), Dennis Arundell (Ross), LAUGHTON (Macbeth), Frank Napier (Banquo), Athene Seyler (1st Weird Sister, Gentlewoman), Phyllis Hatch (2nd Weird Sister), Elspeth Currie (3rd Weird Sister), Desmond Walter-Ellis (Angus), Flora Robson (Lady Macbeth), Raymond Johnson (Servant, Messenger), Alan Foss (Fleance), Morland Graham (Porter), Roger Livesey (Macduff), James Mason (Lennox), Russell Waters (An Old Man), Patrick Ross (1st Murderer, Doctor), Stephan Schnabel (3rd Murderer), Evelyn Allen (Lady Macduff), Nigel Stock (Boy, son to Macduff), John Allen (Menteith), Derek Prentice (Caithness), Cecil Scott-Paton (Messenger), John Moody (Seyton), Peter Copley (Young Seward).
Peter Pan London
London Palladium, 26 December 1936, writ. J.M. Barrie, dir. Stephen Thomas. With: Elsa Lanchester (Peter Pan), LAUGHTON (Captain Hook), Peter Murray Hill (Mr Darling), Cecily Byrne (Mrs Darling), Pamela Standish (Wendy), Clive Baxter (John), Paul Dunger (Michael), Wallie Scott (Nana), Jenny Wren (Tinker Bell), T. Best (Tootles), D. Blatcher (Nibs), Charles Hawtrey (Slightly), Robert Holland (Curley), Stanley Axham (1st twin), D. Smith (2nd Twin), Charles Dow (Smee), Harold Scott (Gentleman Starkey), Edwin McCarthy (Cookson), Victor Thornton (Mullins), William Luff (Cecco), Hamilton Hunter (Jukes), Granville Darling (Noodler), Claude Talbot (1st Pirate), Richard Turner (2nd Pirate), Sam Henry (Black Pirate), Garrett Hollick (Great Big Little Panther), Olive Wright (Tiger Lily), M. Milne (Mermaid), Kathleen Weston (Baby Mermaid), Helen Moore (Liza), T. Bray (Ostrich), David Little and Basil Macrae (Crocodile).
The Life of Galileo Los Angeles and New York
Coronet Theatre, Los Angeles, 30 July–17 August 1947, writ. Bertolt Brecht, trans. LAUGHTON and Brecht, dir. Joseph Losey, Brecht and LAUGHTON, des. Robert Davison. With: LAUGHTON (Galileo), Hugo Haas (Barberini), Frances Heflin (Virginia), Bill Phipps (Andrea), Eda Reiss Merin (Mrs Sarti), Peter Brocco (Old Cardinal), Stephen Brown (Street Singer). Subsequently: Maxine Elliott’s Theatre, New York, 7 December 1947.
The Cherry Orchard Los Angeles
Stage Theatre, Los Angeles, 6 June 1950, writ. A. Chekhov, dir. Charles Laughton, des. Harry Horner. With: Eugenie Leontovich (Mme Ranyevsky), CHARLES LAUGHTON (Gaev), Carol Brannan (Anya), Belita (Varya), Maria Bazzi (Charlotta Ivanovna), Hal Bokor (Semyonov-Pistchik), Vic Perrin (Yasha), Bill Phipps (Trofimov), Jed McKee (a vagrant), Louise Carman (girl), Margaret Field (Dunyasha), Bob Anderson (Lopahin), Richard Lupino (Epihodov), William Cottrell (Firs).
Don Juan in Hell New York
Carnegie Hall, one performance, 1951, writ. Bernard Shaw, dir. LAUGHTON. With: LAUGHTON (Devil), Charles Boyer (Don Juan), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Statue), Agnes Moorehead (Donna Anna).
John Brown’s Body New York
New Century Theatre, 14 Feb–11 Apr 1953, writ. Stephen Vincent Benet, adapt. and dir. LAUGHTON, mus. and eff. Walter Schumann, on stage choral dir. Richard White. With: Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey and Joe Baker, Don Burke, Betty Benson, Keith Carver, Jack B. Dailey, Barbara Ford, Gillian Grey, Homer W. Hall, Les Helsdon, Bob Jensen, William Longmire, Donna McDaniel, John McMahon, Roger Miller, Smith Russell Jr., Lynda Stevens, Jack Vander-Laan, Robert Vaughn, Gordon B. Wood.
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial New York
Plymouth, 21 Jan 1954 (opened), writ. Herman Wouk, adapted from his novel, ‘The Caine Mutiny’, dir. LAUGHTON. With: John Huffman (Stenographer), Greg Roman (Orderly), Henry Fonda (Lieut. Greenwald), John Hodiak (Lieut. Stephen Maryk), Ainslie Pryor (Lieut. Cdr. John Challee), Russell Hicks (Capt. Blakely), Lloyd Nolan (Lieut. Cdr. Philip Francis Queeg), Robert Gist (Lieut. Thomas Keefer), Eddie Firestone (Signalman Junius Urban), Charles Nolte (Lieut. [jg] Willis Seward Keith), Paul Birch (Capt. Randolph Southard), Stephen Chase (Dr Forrest Lundeen), Herbert Anderson (Dr Bird), and Larry Barton, Jim Bumgarner, T.H. Jourdan, Richard Farmer, Richard Norris, Pat Waltz (Members of the Court).
Major Barbara New York
Martin Beck Theatre, 30 Oct 1956, writ. Bernard Shaw, dir. LAUGHTON, des. Donald Oenslager. With: LAUGHTON (Andrew Undershaft), John Astin (Morrison), Frank Gero (Footman), Louise Latham (Maid), Cornelia Otis Skinner (Lady Britomart), Frederic Warriner (Stephen), Glynis Johns (Major Barbara), Myra Carter (Sarah), Burgess Meredith (Adolphus Cusins), Richard Lupino (Charles Lomax), Sally Gracie (Rummy Mitchems), Walter Burke (Snobby Price), Nancy Malone (Jenny Hill), Colin Keith-Johnston (Peter Shirley), Eli Wallach (Bill Walker), Patricia Ripley (Mrs Baines).
The Party London
New Theatre, 28 May 1958, writ. Jane Arden, dir. LAUGHTON. With: Ann Lynn (Henriette Brough), Joyce Redman (Frances Brough), John Welsh (Harold Lingham), Elsa Lanchester (Elsie Sharp), Albert Finney (Soya Marshall), LAUGHTON (Richard Brough).
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 2 June 1959, writ. W. Shakespeare, dir. Peter Hall. With: Anthony Nicholls (Theseus), Stephanie Bidmead (Hippolyta), Donald Layne-Smith (Philostrate), Roy Dotrice (Egeus), Priscilla Morgan (Hermia), Albert Finney (Lysander), Edward de Souza (Demetrius), Vanessa Redgrave (Helena), Cyril Luckham (Quince), LAUGHTON (Bottom), Peter Woodthorpe (Flute), Donald Eccles (Starveling), Michael Blakemore (Snout), Julian Glover (Snug), Ian Holm (Puck), Zoe Caldwell (A Fairy), Robert Hardy (Oberon), Mary Ure (Titania), and Mavis Edwards, Georgine Anderson, Judith Downes, Margaret O’Keefe, Jean Owen, Malcolm Ranson, Michael Scole (Fairies). (Among supernumeraries was Diana Rigg.)
King Lear Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 18 Aug 1959, writ. W. Shakespeare, dir. Glen Byam Shaw, des. Motley. With: Anthony Nicholls (Earl of Kent), Cyril Luckham (Earl of Gloucester), LAUGHTON (Lear), Stephanie Bidmead (Goneril), Angela Baddeley (Regan), Zoe Caldwell (Cordelia), Julian Glover
(Albany), Paul Hardwick (Cornwall), Edward de Souza (King of France), Roy Dotrice (Burgundy), Albert Finney (Edgar), Michael Blakemore (Knight to Lear), Peter Woodthorpe (Oswald), Ian Holm (Fool), Stephen Thorne (Curan), Michael Graham Cox (1st Regan Servant), Roger Bizley (2nd Regan Servant), David Buck (3rd Regan Servant), Donald Eccles (Gloucester’s Tenant), Kenneth Gilbert (Doctor), Roy Spencer (Herald), Peter Mason (Edmund’s Captain), Stanley Wheeler (Herald’s Trumpeter), Arthur Allaby (Edgar’s Trumpeter), Don Smith (Cordelia Messenger), Richard Rudd (Regan Soldier), Dave Thomas (Edmund Standard-Bearer).
The Films
Blue Bottles (silent)
England, 1928, 20 mins, Angle pictures. Dir. Ivor Montagu, sc. based on a story by H.G. Wells, ph. F.A. Young, a.d. Frank Wells. With: LAUGHTON, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Wright, Joe Beckett, Norman Haire.
Day Dreams (silent)
England, 1928, 23 mins, Ideal Films. Dir. Ivor Montagu, sc. and a.d. Frank Wells, based on a story by H.G. Wells, ph. F.A. Young, a.d. Frank Wells. With: LAUGHTON, Elsa Lanchester, Harold Warrender, Dorice Fordred, Marie Wright.
Piccadilly
England, 1929, 89 mins, British International. Dir. E. A. Dupont, sc. Arnold Bennett. ph. Werner Brandes, a.d. Alfred Junge. With: LAUGHTON, Gilda Grey, Jameson Thomas, Anna May Wong, King Ho-Chang, Cyril Ritchard, Hannah Jones.
Wolves
USA, 1930, Western Electric on Film. With: LAUGHTON, Dorothy Gish, Malcolm Keen, Arthur Margetson.
Down River
England, 1931, British Acoustics on Film. Dir. Peter Godfrey. With: LAUGHTON, Harold Huth, Jane Baxter.
The Old Dark House
USA, 1932, 72 mins, Universal Pictures. Prod. Carl Laemmle Jr., dir. James Whale, sc. Benn W. Levy, from the novel by J.B. Priestley, ph. Arthur Edeson, a.d. Charles D. Hall, ed. Clarence Kolster. With: LAUGHTON (Porterhouse), Boris Karloff (Morgan), Gloria Stuart (Margaret), Melvyn Douglas (Penderel), Lillian Bond (Gladys), Ernest Thesiger (Horace), Eva Moore (Rebecca), Raymond Massey (Philip), Brember Wills (Saul), John Dudgeon (Sir Roderick).
Devil and the Deep
USA, 1932, Paramount. Dir. Marion Gering, sc. Benn Levy, based on a story by Harry Hervey, ph. Charles Lang, a.d. Bernard Herzbrun, ed. Otho Lovering. With: LAUGHTON (Commander Charles Sturm), Tallulah Bankhead (Pauline Sturm), Gary Cooper (Lieut. Sempter), Cary Grant (Lieut. Jaeckel), Paul Porcasi (Hassan), Juliette Compton (Mrs Planet), Henry Kolker (Hutton), Dorothy Christy (Mrs Crimp), Arthur Hoyt (Mr Planet), Gordon Westcott (Lieut. Toll), Jimmie Dugan (Condover), Kent Taylor (A Friend), Lucien Littlefield (Shopkeeper), Peter Brocco (Wireless Operator), Wilfred Lucas (Court Martial Judge), Dave O’Brien, Harry Guttman, George Magrill (Submarine Crewmen).
Payment Deferred
USA, 1932, 80 mins, MGM. Dir. Lothar Mendes, sc. from the play by Jeffrey F. Dell. With: LAUGHTON (William Marble), Maureen O’Sullivan (Winnie Marble), Dorothy Peterson (Annie Marble), Verree Teasdale (Madame Collins), Ray Milland (James Medland).
The Sign of the Cross
USA, 1932, 123 mins, Paramount. Prod. Cecil B. De Mille, dir. Cecil B. De Mille, sc. Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman, from the play by Wilson Barrett, ph. Karl Struss, ed. Anne Bauchens. With: LAUGHTON (Nero), Fredric March (Marcus Superbus), Elissa Landi (Mercia), Claudette Colbert (Poppaea), Ian Keith (Tigellinus), John Carradine (Leader of Gladiators/Christian).
If I Had A Million
USA, 1932, Paramount. Prod. Louis D. Lighton, dir. Ernst Lubitsch (Laughton sequence), Norman Taurog (Fields sequence), Stephen Roberts (Ruggles sequence), Norman McLeod (Raft sequence), James Cruse (Wynne Gibson sequence/May Robson sequence), William A. Seiter (Cooper sequence), H. Bruce Humberstone (Gene Raymond sequence). Sc. Claude Binyon, Whitney Bolton, Malcolm Stuart Boyland, Sidney Buchman, Lester Cole, Isable Dawn, Boyce DeGaw, Walter De Leon, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Harvey Gates, Grover Jones, Ernst Lubitsch, Lawton Macakall, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William Slavens-McNutt, Seton I. Miller, Tiffany Thayes, based on a story ‘Windfall’ by Roberg D. Andrews. Sound rec. Frank Grenzbach, Phil S. Wisdom. With: Prologue: Richard Bennett (John Glidden), Fred Kelsey and Willard Robertson (Doctors), Gail Patrick (Secretary). China Salesman: Charlie Ruggles (Henry Peabody), Mary Boland (Mrs Peabody), Irving Bacon (Otto K. Bullwinkle). Harlot’s Episode: Wynne Gibson (Violet Smith), Jack Pennick (Sailor). Forger’s Episode: George Raft (Eddie Jackson), Kent Taylor (Bank Clerk). Motoring Episode: W.C. Fields (Rollo La Rue), Alison Skipworth (Emily La Rue), Cecil Cunningham (Agnes). Condemned Man: Gene Raymond (John Wallace), Frances Dee (Mary Wallace), Grant Mitchell (Priest), Berton Churchill (Warden). Clerk’s Episode: LAUGHTON (Phineas V. Lambert). Marine’s Episode: Gary Cooper (Steven Gallagher), Jack Oakie (Mulligan), Roscoe Karns (O’Brien), Joyce Compton (Marie), Lucien Littlefield (Zeb), James Burtis (Jailer). Old Lady’s Episode: May Robson (Mary Walker), Blanche Frederici (Head Nurse), Dewey Robinson (Cook).
Island of Lost Souls
USA, 1933, 67 mins, Paramount. Dir. Erie C. Kenton, sc. Philip Wylie and Waldemar Young, based on the novel by H.G. Wells, makeup Wally Westmore. With: LAUGHTON, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, Robert Kortman, Tetsu Komai, Hans Steinke, Harry Ekezian, Rosemary Grimes, Paul Hurst, George Irving and Joe Bonomo.
The Private Life of Henry VIII
UK, 1933, 97 mins, London Films. Prod. Alexander Korda, dir. Alexander Korda, sc. Lajos Biro and Arthur Wimperis, ph. Georges Perinal, a.d. Vincent Korda, mus. Kurt Schroeder. With: LAUGHTON (Henry VIII), Robert Donat (Thomas Culpeper), Lady Tree (Henry’s old nurse), Binnie Barnes (Catherine Howard), Elsa Lanchester (Anne of Cleves), Merle Oberon (Anne Boleyn), Franklin Dyall (Thomas Cromwell), Miles Mander (Wriothesly), Wendy Barrie (Jane Seymour), Claude Allister (Cornell), John Loder (Thomas Peynell), Everly Gregg (Catherine Parr), Laurence Hanray (Archbishop Cranmer), William Austin (Duke of Cleves), John Turnbull (Holbein), Frederick Cully (Duke of Norfolk), Gibb McLaughlin (French executioner), Sam Livesey (English executioner).
White Woman
USA, 1933, 60 mins, Paramount. Dir. Stuart Walker, sc. Samuel Hoffenstein and Gladys Lehman, based on the story by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank Butler, ph. Harry Fischbeck a.d. Hans Drier and Harry Oliver. Carole Lombard’s songs by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon. With: LAUGHTON (Horace Prin), Carole Lombard (Judith Denning), Charles Bickford (Ballister), Kent Taylor (David von Eltz), Percy Killbride (Jakey), Charles B. Middleton (Fenton), James Bell (Hambley), Claude King (Chisholm), Ethel Griffies (Mrs Chisholm), Jimmie Dime (Vaegi), Marc Lawrence (Connors), Mabel Johnson (Native chief no. 1), Gregg Whitespear (Native chief no. 2).
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
USA, 1934, 110 mins, MGM. Prod. Irving G. Thalberg, dir. Sidney Franklin, sc. Ernst Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart from the novel by Rudolf Besier, ph. William Daniels, a.d. Cedric Gibbons, ed. Margaret Booth, mus. Herbert Stothart, rec. eng. Douglas Shearer, ass. dir. Hugh Boswell, cos. Adrian. With: Norma Shearer (Elizabeth Barrett), Fredric March (Robert Browning), LAUGHTON (Barrett), Maureen O’Sullivan (Henrietta Barrett), Katharine Alexander (Arabel).
Ruggles of Red Gap
USA, 1935, 90 mins, Paramount. Prod. Arthur Hornblow, dir. Leo McCarey, sc. Walter De Leon, Harlan Thomson and Humphrey Pearson, adapted from the play and novel by Harry Leon Wilson, a.d. Hans Dreier and Robert Odell, ed. Edward Dmytryk, cin. Alfred Gilks, rec. eng. P.G. Wisdom, ass. dir. A.F. Erickson, cos. Travis Banton, mus. Ralph Rainger and Sam Coslow. With: LAUGHTON (Ruggles), Mary Boland (Effie Floud), Charlie Ruggles (Egbert Floud), ZaSu Pitts (Mrs Judson), Roland Young (George Van Bassingwell), Leila Hyams (Nell Kenner), Maude Eburne (Ma Pettingill), Lucien Littlefield (Charles Belknap-Jackson), Leota Lorraine (Mrs Belknap-Jackson), James Burke (Jeff Tuttle).
Les Misérables
USA, 1935, 108 mins, 20th Century Pictures. Prod. Darryl F. Zanuck, dir. Richard Boleslawski, sc. W.P. Lipscomb, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, cin. Gregg Toland, a.d. Richard Day, ed. Barbara McLean, sound Frank Maher and Roger Heman, mus. Alfred Newman, ass. dir. Eric Stacey, co
s. Omar Kiam. With: Fredric March (Jean Valjean), LAUGHTON (Inspector Javert).
Mutiny on the Bounty
USA, 1935, 132 mins, MGM. Prod. Irving Thalberg, assoc. prod. Albert Lewin, dir. Frank Lloyd, sc. Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson, based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, a.d. Cedric Gibbons, ed. Margaret Booth, mus. Herbert Stothart, rec. eng. Douglas Shearer, song ‘Love Song of Tahiti’ by Gus Kahn, Bronislau Kuper and Walter Jurmann. With: LAUGHTON (Captain Bligh), Clark Gable (Fletcher Christian), Franchot Tone (Byam), Dudley Digges (Bachus), Henry Stephenson (Sir Joseph Banks), Donald Crisp (Burkitt), Eddie Quillan (Ellison), Francis Lister (Captain Nelson).
Rembrandt
UK, 1936, 85 mins, London Films. Prod. Alexander Korda, dir. Alexander Korda, sc. Carl Zuckmayer, Arthur Wimperis, Lajos Biro and June Head, ph. Georges Perinal and Richard Angst, a.d. Vincent Korda, ed. William Hornbeck, mus. Geoffrey Toye. With: LAUGHTON (Rembrandt), Gertrude Lawrence (Geertje), Elsa Lanchester (Hendrickje), Edward Chapman (Fabrizius), Walter Hudd (Banning Cocq), Roger Livesey (beggar), Allan Jeayes (Dr Tulp), John Clements (Gavaert Flink), Raymond Huntley (Ludwick).
I, Claudius
UK, 1936, London Films. Prod. Alexander Korda, dir. Josef von Sternberg, sc. based on the book by Robert Graves, ph. George Perinal, a.d. Vincent Korda, cos. John Armstrong. With: LAUGHTON (Tiberius Claudius), Emlyn Williams (Caligula), Merle Oberon (Messalina), Flora Robson (Olivia, widow of Augustus), Robert Newton (Soldier).