Charles Laughton Highway at 14954 Corona Del Mar in Pacific Palisades. The property suffered a landslide in 1944, alluded to by Bertolt Brecht in his poem "Garden in Progress". Laughton was a Democrat and supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election. Charles Laughton died on 15 December 1962 from renal cancer. His body was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Laughton won the New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Ruggles of Red Gap" in 1935. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Laughton has a star on the Hollywood
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) concerning his weight and unattractive looks, suffered horribly in comparing himself to the handsome, masculine Clark Gable. Laughton would constantly watch his own walk, gestures, and face, making sure not to let his complex be projected. A British merchant navy officer recalled in his memoirs seeing the fore and aft-rigged schooner "Commodore II" being broken up in Cape Town in 1945, having suffered severe gale damage, and that this was the ship that had been re-rigged for the film. Contemporary reviews were enthusiastic. Andre Sennwald of "The New York Times" wrote, "Grim, brutal, sturdily romantic, made out of horror and