Right before writing this column this morning, I watched the magnificent 1935 MGM version of Mutiny on the Bounty starring ...

Laughton’s work as an actor was well-recognized in his time, given he was active throughout the 1930s (including winning an Oscar for 1932’s The Private Life of Henry VIII) and into the early ...

It was time for Laughton to bring some F.W. Murnau-style magic back to cinema. Though reviled and critically lambasted back in its day, The Night of the Hunter’s audacious filmmaking has aged ...

Later in the Laughton version, Lear’s return to reason was a slow and convincing process. As the madness ebbed, the head stopped bobbing, the eyes grew steady, the back straightened.

1939 - Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. 1939 - Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. A young woman seeks refuge at a remote Cornish inn. However, she soon discovers a dark ...

Among her other favorites: “Backlash” and a Charles Laughton biography. The Oscar-winning actress just wrote — and illustrated — her first children’s book.