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  1. Charles Laughton has 15 books on Goodreads with 15233 ratings. Charles Laughton’s most popular book is Mother Courage and Her Children.

  2. He also accepted small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles, and The Tonic (all 1928), which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells and were directed by Ivor Montagu. He made a brief appearance as a disgruntled diner in another silent film Piccadilly with Anna May Wong in 1929.

  3. Charles Laughton, British actor and director who defied the Hollywood typecasting system to emerge as one of the most versatile performers of his generation. His movies included The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), and Spartacus (1960).

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  4. Charles Laughton is the author of Mother Courage and Her Children (3.63 avg rating, 21100 ratings, 670 reviews, published 1941), Tell Me a Story (4.36 av...

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  5. May 14, 2018 · On LAUGHTON: booksSinger, Kurt, The Laughton Story, Philadelphia, 1954. Lanchester, Elsa, Charles Laughton and I, New York, 1968. Burrows, Michael, Charles Laughton and Frederic March, New York, 1970. Brown, William, Charles Laughton: A Pictorial Treasury of His Films, New York, 1970.

  6. Jul 1, 2010 · But the genius came out in more original projects such a collaboration with author Bertolt Brecht in bringing Brecht's The Life of Galileo to the stage in 1947 and the 1953 staging of John Brown's Body, an epic poem by Stephen Vincent Benet starring Tyrone Power and giving him the type of role he'd long craved.

  7. Charles Laughton presents a collection of his favorite stories- sixty of them- that he says “I have not been able to get out of my mind over the years.” While that may be enough of an endorsement to spur the curious reader onward, it’s Laughton’s two-page introduction to the book, “The Story Teller,” that adds an unexpected context ...

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