LAUGHTON’S NEW FILM
PRODUCTION SECRETS. . Secrets are beginning to leak out from the barred set of “The Hunchback cf Notre Dame” regarding Charles Laughton's make-up as Quasimodo. Laughton, it is known at any rate, did not .have to undergo the hardships Lon Chancy suffered when he created the role on the screen. . The silent star’s make-up weighed forty pounds; Laughton’s weighed but six. A sponge rubber right cheek and eye piece were applied to the actor's face. This covered the real eye, leaving an eye socket below it and distorted the whole face, drawing the right side down into a hideous grimace. The false eye is an ingenious piece of mechanism. It opens and closes and winks The new “Hunchback of Notre Dame" has already made history. The film has broken the thirteen-year-old record created by “Ben Hur” for the number of extras employed on a picture. The biggest set required 3500. Recreating the cathedral and its background, which covered five acres at the Radio ranch, has cost over £50,000. With Mr Laughton’s stipend '/cf £20,000 odd and other items, the production will set the studio back I some £500,000. s _
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1940, Page 9
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191LAUGHTON’S NEW FILM Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1940, Page 9
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