Charles Laughton (1930)

Full titles read: “Audio Interviews - Charles Laughton - The Well-known Actor, talks about his “make-up“ for ’On the Spot’.“ London. In what seems to be the Pathe Studios, we see a mock-up of an actor’s dressing room. Charles Laughton enters and is helped on with his dressing-gown by a male dresser. Laughton asks “Has he called the half yet, Brown?“; the dresser replies “Not yet, sir“. Laughton sits at the dressing table, asks for a towel and begins combing his hair. He then turns to the camera and says “The main idea about this make-up is to make myself look less like a pudding, and more like a Chicago-Italian gangster than usual - observe the secrets of the boudoir...“. He turns back towards the mirror and we see various shots of him applying his stage make-up. Laughton’s voice on the soundtrack explains each process, including “Greta Garbo eyelashes - very uncomfortable!“, ’a nasty little black moustache’ and wig. M/S of Laughton putting on a smoking jacket and standing before the camera, sm