This classic biography acknowledges Laughton's most memorable performances and sympathetically addresses the emotional conflict he faced as a homosexual living in intolerant times.
This biography follows Charles Laughton from his parents' hotel in Scarborough to his climactic assumption of the role of King Lear in Stratford at the end of his life. The reader discovers a hugely talented and complex man, a legend in his own lifetime, who nonetheless counted himself a failure.
Description: Paper Covers. Good. Week beginning Monday, March 25, 1957. Directed by Charles Laughton. List of the cast: Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Colin-Keith johnston, Nancy Malone, Louise Latham, Walter Burke, Patricia Ripley, Richard Lupino, Frederick Warriner, Myra Carter and Anne Jackson. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: David McKay
Date Published: 1954
Description: b/w photos. very good in lightly-worn dj, blue-stamped red cloth. 307 pgs, foreword by Norman Vincent Peale. Brokenshire hosted "Theatre Guild on the Air" and was a famous broadcaster. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP. NY ND (1944)
Date Published: 1944
Description: Dust Jacket Included. Photoplay Edition. A very good+ copy in a Vg. + dj. (Small edge chips. General shelfwear. Couple of small digs in cloth at edges) Originally published under the title "This Way Out" in 1939. made into an interesting film noir starring Charles Laughton, who is depicted on the front cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: NJ Family Circle, Inc 1943.
Description: VG. in wraps dj. wartime edition with items on baby booms, film reviews, plus short stories, recipes, etc. 23 pages. Illustrated by illus. Magazine edition. 4vo. 013435. read more
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. A2689. 1st edition / 1st printing. Very good in good dust jacket. Book: slight wear at top & bottom of spine & corners, name & date in ink on inside front cover. Dust jacket: slight over-all soiling, slight wear at edges, 1.25 inch tear near bottom center of front panel, slight rubbing to rear panel. 21.5 x 28cm. hard cover. 161pp. read more
Edition: 1st Edition / 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Date Published: 1976
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. #382. Very good (slight wear at top & bottom of spine, faint remainder spray on bottom fore-edge of pages) in good dust jacket (minor wear at top & bottom of spine). Illustrated with b&w photos. 1st edition / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 239pp. 14.5 x 21.5cm. read more
Description: Good in Good jacket. #8080. Good (minor wear at edges) in good dust jacket (minor wear at edges, slight soiling to front panel). Illustrated with numerous b&w photos from Laughton's films. 1st edition/1st printing. Hard Cover. 161pp. 21.5 x 28cm. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: World Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1945
Description: 8vo. 191, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo plates, photo-illust. endpapers. Red cloth, orange lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, mnr tears to crnrs, creasng), VG/G-. First photoplay edition of this movie about the famed pirate, starring Charles Laughton, Barbara Britton, and Randolph Scott. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Sm 4to red wrappers
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly
Date Published: Feb. 1938
Description: Small tear at base spine & neat label San. Diego County else very good++; Contiributors are: Leonard P. Ayres, Elsa Lanchester, Alexander Woollcott, Winifred Van Etten, Wilson Follett, Graham Hutton, Elezabeth Coatsworth, Edmund Wilson, Sylvia G. Dreyfus, Arthur Pound, H. B. Elliston, Saudin Bin Labatau, John Ludwig. Articles "Jew and Gentile: A Symposium by Bishop Stewart, Father Walsh & Rabbi Newman. The Pomegranate Trees, A Story by William Saroyan and The German Mind by Emil Ludwig. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Date Published: 1966
Description: This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Hammer prices lightly written in. Estimates written on the back cover. 160 lots in the sale. Illustrated in black & white. 10" high X 7" wide, 102 pages. Bibliography brochure laid-in. read more
Binding: Paper Wraps
Publisher: The Crowell Publishing Company
Date Published: 1935
Description: Very Good. Periodical. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 138 pp. Illustrated front cover. Rear cover is a full page ad for a $1.25 relish dish that could be bought for $.25 with a purchase of one package of Bisquick. Covers and spine are slightly aged, soiled and worn. Occasional small chips and closed tears along edges. Spine is creased, chipped and cracked and has small portions missing from both ends. Majority of the contents consist of period advertising, fashions and interior decorating. Front ... read more
Description: Good. Average wear. British Academy award winner-Best British Film. "Delightful and Rewarding"-The New York Times. Sit your family down and watch this movie. They will thank-you. Suffers early from over-acting by Charles Laughton (Mr. Hobson) but as the story develops you will be abundantly rewarded. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Date Published: 1938
Description: First Edition-American. Lanchester's memoirs of her marriage to Laughton and all their acting adventures including discussing her work in James Whale's The Bride of Frankenstein, and includes a picture of her in that famous role. Ownership inscription. Near fine in a very good internally repaired price-clipped dust jacket with a few small tears. read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: S paperback
Publisher: [Henschelverlag] [1962]
Description: over 150 b/w photos. 8vo [ca. 200]pp Upper cover title. Text in German. Includes the full text o f the play "Leben des Galilei", plus coverage of the actors Ernst Busch and Charles Laughton in the 1957 production (including production photos). 3 v olumes complete, in wrappers (2 in black and 1 in yellow wrappers), enclose d in publisher's black cloth folding chemise. VG (slight stains to outer cl oth; slight rubbing to external and internal covers). read more
Publisher: London. The Amalgamated Press. 24th April 1954.
Description: The weekly magazine "for people who go to the pictures", with news of the latest cinema films, studio gossip, fan club addresses, production details, personal profiles, reviews and casting lists-published in the days when even small towns often had two or three cinemas. Each issue 310mmx235mm. 16pp. Illustrated throughout. Cover photo of Rosemary Clooney, Joanne Gilbert and Gene Barry in RED GARTERS. Main features on Story adaptation of HOBSON'S CHOICE, starring Charles Laughton, Brenda de ... read more
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