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
Vessel of Wrath positive review, calling it a "charming, neglected romantic comedy" in which both Laughton and Lanchester are "wonderful". "The New York Times" review of the second film adaptation, starring Robert Newton, found it less entertaining than its predecessor, which was praised as a "vigorous comedy and a thing of film beauty" with "inspired characterizations by Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester". Vessel of Wrath Vessel of Wrath is a 1938 British film directed by Erich Pommer, and produced by Pommer and starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. It was based on the Somerset Maugham short story "The Vessel of Wrath". The film