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They sat in the back and her father told her all about the making of the film as it played. The other people in the theater were not watching the movie, but rather watching Claude Rains explain to his daughter how he made the film.
2 mar 2018 · How Claude brought his wife and baby Jessica to the set to ease Bette Davis's ardor. We talked her interesting run in with Joan Crawford at Christinas Birthday Party. Jessica never went back!
Drawing on over thirty hours of newly released audio interviews with Rains and enriched by daughter Jessica Rains's contributions, Claude Rains is an intimate portrait and the first full biography of this gifted actor.
Charming Warner Bros. publicity photo of actor Claude Rains and his daughter Jessica (then Jennifer) playing outside their Brentwood home in the early 1940s. Pristine archival repro darkroom print from large format negative, 8x10 bordered on velvety pearl matte paper, AMPAS library stamp on reverse. Originally printed (but not used) for 2008 ...
Jessica Rains in a TCM "Word of Mouth" remembering her father Claude Rains and his friend and colleague Bette Davis.
He took her to see The Invisible Man (1933) in a small theater in Pennsylvania. They sat in the back and her father told her all about the making of the film as it played. The other people in the theater were not watching the movie, but rather watching Claude Rains explain to his daughter how he made the film.
Rains later revealed to his daughter that he'd enjoyed playing the prince as a homosexual, by using subtle mannerisms. Rains later credited the film's co-director Michael Curtiz with teaching him the more understated requirements of film acting, or "what not to do in front of a camera."
