Show MRS CHARLES LAUGHTON I h Elsa Lanchester Escapes From Hollywood Types Elsa Lanchester the pop eyed haired frizzle lady whose trenchant trenchant trenchant trench trench- ant portrayals give a lift to even the gloomiest movie mo is one actress Holl Hollywood wood has been unable to type If you take Miss word for it Hollywood has certainly I tried But her escape has been complete and Is of her personal circumstances I In private life Miss iss Lanchester Is the wife ife of Charles Laughton personal circumstance which keeps her from having to accept employment employment employment em em- through any sense of financial pinch Accordingly to the horror of many film producers she picks and chooses her assignments assignments assign assign- ments with meticulous care Im not interested in just going to work she has commented Arole Arole A Arole role has hag to offer me a gr great grat at deal After all every time I sign a contract contract contract con con- tract I push Charles up a notch or two in the surplus income brackets Im I'm sure he he doesn't thank me mc for that Miss Lanchester hates to repeat a performance It is one of the unhappier rewards of Holl Hollywood wood success that once an actress has ha made a hit in a certain type of role she is asked to pla play it over and over again possibly on the theory that nothing succeeds m like e excess Since her portrayal al of the drunken cook in The Spiral Staircase Staircase Staircase Stair Stair- case for example Miss Lanchester Lanchester Lanchester Lan Lan- chester has been deluged with re requests requests re re- quests to enact drunken cooks But she has no intention of leaning her career over a hot stove the rest of her professional life She promptly turned them all down although not without some mis mis- mis givings Producers Producers' as a class dislike tobe tobe to tobe be turned down especially when they are arc banking on a particular performer to pull a sequence out of the doldrums More often than not they take such a refusal as asa asa I Ia a personal rebuff Miss Lanchester I estimates that she can now field fielda a full cricket team of producers I for whom she isn't likely to work soon i 4 7 r t 14 i ft t I J Ji Jt 4 I 1 I 1 i 1 t I i 5 y 1 4 h 1 ONE OF HOLLYWOODS HOLLYWOOD'S BEST Famed comedienne Elsa Lanchester has contributed many memorable memorable memorable able characterizations in movie mo career She's Mrs Charles Laughton |