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Casablanca: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
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Jul 28, 2006 · Each of Rains' films is recounted in detail, with Soister's well informed opinion on each film, and Mr. Rains' performance. If you are a fan of Claude Rains, or Hollywood's Golden Era, THIS is a must book for you! He may have been short in physical stature, but Claude Rains was a towering giant when it came to talent, style, and film presence.
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- John T. Soister, JoAnna Wioskowski
Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years; he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Inv
Nov 7, 2008 · Books. Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice. David J. Skal, Jessica Rains. University Press of Kentucky, Nov 7, 2008 - Performing Arts - 304 pages. The first full-length biography of the actor known for his roles in The Invisible Man, Casablanca, and other classics, based on newly released interviews. Given his childhood speech impediments and his ...
Apr 3, 2019 · William Claude Rains, known as Willie to his family, was born November 10, 1889 to Frederick and Emily Eliza Cox at 26 Tregothnan Road in Clapham, or, as he described it, ?the wrong side of the River Thames?. In their poverty the Rains family suffered much hardship. Emily gave birth to twelve children, but only three survived into adulthood.
Feb 22, 2007 · February 22, 2007. Though his roles were sometimes small, Claude Rains made a stealthy, acute contribution to many films of the 1930s and ’40s. The son of an English stage actor, Rains was born into extreme poverty: nine of his siblings died in the squalor of a poor section of London. He was handicapped with small stature (standing at 5’ 6 ...
Claude Rains. Actor: Casablanca. William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth business end as well, progressing from a page boy to a...
