“IN THE RAW”
CHARLES LAUGHTON FILM For the first time in his screen career. Charles Laughton, in the role of “Charles.” the busker in "St Martin’s Lane,” will appear without make-up of any kind, although by a .clever combination of costume "he looks more unlike Laughton than if he wore ! a wig and a set of whiskers. I Laughton is a stickler for realism, he prefers, where possible, to dispense entirely with make-up. so that if. as in ' his lasi picture. “Rembrandt,” he had a flowing moustache, he insisted upon 1 letting his beard go unkempt, j In “St. Martin’s Lane” Laughton’s i face will be innocent of even the cusI tomary dusting of powder, considered I necessary for filming, but with the aid | of a cloth cap, a cheap neckerchief, a poacher’s coat, a navvy’s belt and tight-fitting trousers, picked up after I a laborious search in second-hand I stores all over London. Laughton suc- | ceeds in making himself almost un- , recognisable.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)
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163“IN THE RAW” Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)
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