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Elsa Lanchester
James “Shamus” Sullivan and Edith “Biddy” Lanchester defied social mores in their refusal to marry; their daughter Elsa would continue the family tradition of […]

Cedric Hardwicke – English [...]
Cedric Hardwicke – or, to be more correct, Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke – was born in the English town of Lye on the 19th […]

Rondo Hatton
Rondo Hatton was born on the 22nd of April, 1894 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Suffering from acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland, Hatton never […]

Charles Laughton
English stage and film actor and director Charles Laughton was born on the 1st of July, 1899 in Scarborough, in Yorkshire’s North Riding, England. […]