Showing posts with label Elsa Lanchester. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Grand Hotel

Original trailer for "Grand Hotel" starring Greta Garbo and John Barrymore, 1932

But meanwhile, back in Scarborough ...



Winston Churchill once stayed here, and there is a plaque dedicated to Anne Bronte.

Actor and director Charles Laughton's parents were hoteliers in Scarborough, owning "The Victoria" and then "The Pavilion". Laughton moved to the U.S. and became a well regarded, although troubled actor, and married "Bride of Frankenstein", 1935, elegant Elsa Lanchester.



The river boat scene from Laughton's "Night of the Hunter", 1955, starring the delicious Robert Mitchum.