Definitions
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- noun United States film actor (born in England) (1899-1962)
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Examples
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Like diners who know the waiter sees them, but despair of luring him back to their table, actors make vague gestures in Laughton's direction but don't seem to have any real hope of engaging him.
The Mannionville Daily Gazettes Favorite Blog of the Day: Favorite Film Blogger Anniversary Edition 2010
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Like diners who know the waiter sees them, but despair of luring him back to their table, actors make vague gestures in Laughton's direction but don't seem to have any real hope of engaging him.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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O'HARA: And he could only remember -- and he called Laughton up and said, you're right.
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"Once upon a time there lived, at an old house in Hampshire called Laughton, a wealthy baronet named St. John.
Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Once upon a time there lived, at an old house in Hampshire called Laughton, a wealthy baronet named St. John.
Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Perhaps it was by chance that a variation on the medieval ferry-hailing term was used in these aqueous circumstances, but the dramatic hello attributed to Joe Laughton on September 18, 1827, is the first attestation of the word.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Perhaps it was by chance that a variation on the medieval ferry-hailing term was used in these aqueous circumstances, but the dramatic hello attributed to Joe Laughton on September 18, 1827, is the first attestation of the word.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Other notables include the rotund Peter Ustinov providing comic relief as a cowardly slave-trader, and Charles Laughton, who lends gravitas as a senior Roman senator.
John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95! John Farr 2011
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A 1939 sound version, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara, is also very good.
Thomas Gladysz: Hunchback of Notre Dame at Grace Cathedral New Year's Eve Thomas Gladysz 2011
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But this remains Laughton's movie, with Moreau's sadism providing a dry run for the actor's defining role as Captain Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty" 1935.
The Horror, at Home David Mermelstein 2011
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