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Charles Laughton once again teams up with Korda for this moving, elegantly shot biopic about the Dutch painter. Beginning when Rembrandt’s reputation was at its height, the film then tracks his quiet descent into loneliness and isolated self-expression, following the death of his wife to the unveiling of Night Watch to the ecclesiastical excommunication of his late-in-life lover and maid, Hendrickje Stoffels (played by Laughton’s wife, Elsa Lanchester). Though black and white, Rembrandt is shot by cinematographer Georges Périnal (Le million, The Fallen Idol) with an attention to light that’s particularly Rembrandtesque.
Original Release
11/09/1936
US Release
12/25/1936
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles Laughton | Rembrandt van Rijn |
Gertrude Lawrence | Geertje Dirx |
Elsa Lanchester | Hendrickje Stoffels |
Edward Chapman | Fabrizius |
Walter Hudd | Banning Cocq / Capt. Banning Cocq |
Roger Livesey | Beggar Saul |
John Bryning | Titus / Titus van Rijn |
Sam Livesey | Auctioneer |
Herbert Lomas | Gerrit van Rijn - Rembrandt's Father / Harmenzs van Rijn |
Allan Jeayes | Doctor Tulp / Dr. Tulp |
Directors
Writers
Carl Zuckmayer, June Head, Lajos Biró
Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles Laughton | Rembrandt van Rijn |
Gertrude Lawrence | Geertje Dirx |
Elsa Lanchester | Hendrickje Stoffels |
Edward Chapman | Fabrizius |
Walter Hudd | Banning Cocq / Capt. Banning Cocq |
Roger Livesey | Beggar Saul |
John Bryning | Titus / Titus van Rijn |
Sam Livesey | Auctioneer |
Herbert Lomas | Gerrit van Rijn - Rembrandt's Father / Harmenzs van Rijn |
Allan Jeayes | Doctor Tulp / Dr. Tulp |
John Clements | Flinck / Govaert Flinck |
Raymond Huntley | Ludwick |
Abraham Sofaer | Menasseh / Dr. Menasseh |
Lawrence Hanray | Heertsbeeke |
Austin Trevor | Marquis de Grand Coeur |
Henry Hewitt | Jan Six |
Gertrude Musgrove | Agelintje - Girl at Inn / Agelintje |
Richard Gofe | Titus (child) |
Basil Gill | Adrien van Rijn - Rembrandt's Brother / Adrien van Rijn |
Barry Livesey | Peasant Lad |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Alexander Korda | Producer |