Children See Through 1 Laughton Make-Up
WHEN Charles Laughton returned from a week’s holiday at St. Moritz between pictures, he told an amusing story against himself. Laughton has a dread of appearing conspicuous, which is one of the reasons why he is seldom seen at any of the big social functions or round the fashionable hotels. At the hotel in which he was staying in Switzerland, the management approached him to appear as Santa Claus for a children’s party. Laughton protested, but it was pointed out that in the Santa Claus make-up, behind a set of flowing white whiskers, he would be unrecognisable. Laughton, the master of make-up, with characteristic thoroughness spent an hour perfecting his Santa Claus outfit, and, hidden behind a flowing white avalanche of hair, made his entry into the party. “And now, children,” cried the M.C., “I want to introduce Santa Claus!” The sophisticated youngsters of St. Moritz took one look at the jovial figure, and cried: “That’s not Santa Claus, that's Charles Laughton,” and there was a bigger rush for autographs than for the sackful of presents he carried over his shoulder.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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187Children See Through1 Laughton Make-Up Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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