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Charles Laughton(1899-1962) was an English-American stage and production actor, screenwriter, producer and director. Born into a wealthy family of hotel owners in Yorkshire, England, he was raised a strict Catholic, leading to his tormented and remorseful adult struggles with his homosexuality. After his father’s death, he left the innkeeping field and studied acting, his first cherish. He quickly became victorious and  maintained careers simultaneously in England, New York and Hollywood. Laughton became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 and carved a career as a great character actor, since his portly figure and decidedly un-handsome face meant that most lead roles were not open to him.

While his pervasive unhappiness may have contributed to his accomplishment as an actor, it adversely affected his personal life. Tormented throughout his career by suppressed homosexuality and self-loathing, Laughton died in Hollywood in 1962, still deeply ashamed of his lgbtq+ longings. He never publicly discussed or declared his homosexuality, except to his wife, Elsa Lanchester, an actress whom he married in 1929.

In the film The Privat

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Postby moira finnie »

I think that we can talk about this here. After all, it only refers to rumors that are at least 75 years old now!

Here's what I've heard about the rumors in a nutshell:
Clark Gable, as a struggling actor in the theatre and movies was constantly having to deal with many lesbian men and women. There are rumors, all hearsay and presented without any proof, that Mr. G. had been "involved" in one night stands with several men in a position to help his career during his soar to movie stardom. Many of these rumors contain been perpetuated by "writers" such as Kenneth Fury or the Charles Higham variety who a.) don't mind defaming the deceased, b.) really think that everyone good looking must be gay, or that all humans are double attraction (yeah, right, as though liking one sex isn't confusing enough for most of us), c.) don't mind making a buck off dead famous people who can't defend themselves and d.) weren't there and don't know much, though that never stopped these guys.

Of course this is all between Gable's numerous intensely heterosexual affairs with a series of smitten women and two marriages, both, prior to Carole Lombard, to older, moneyed women who

Wife Elsa Lanchester

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Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a perform with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death. Charles Laughton began by compartmentalizing sexuality from the recover of his life, only to become more accepting of it as he got older: Laughton would, late in life, say his wife E

Charles Laughton

English stage and clip actor and director Charles Laughton was born on the 1st of July, 1899 in Scarborough, in Yorkshire’s North Riding, England.

Studying his craft at the RADA, Laughton first appeared professionally on stage in 1926. However, just a year later he was cast in a act with English actress Elsa Lanchester, who he would go on to join and live and function with until his death.

Laughton was famous for many huge roles on motion picture, and his impressive résumé includes The Private Animation of Henry VIII (1933), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) and Jamaica Inn (1939), and he famously directed The Night of the Hunter (1955).

He made his New York stage debut in 1931 which led immediately to film proposals, his first Hollywood clip being James Whale’s classic horror movie The Aged Dark House (1932). His other notable roles in the genre were as H G Wells’ crazed vivisectionist Dr Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (1932) and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).

Throughout their animation together, Laughton and Lanchester never had any children, a fact which Lanchester

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