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Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
STATED FIRST EDITION. 1988 Grove Press hardcover, Simon Callow (Being an Actor). 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.