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** Creator/EthelBarrymore and Creator/AgnesMoorehead were considered for Rachel Cooper.
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** Creator/EthelBarrymore and Creator/AgnesMoorehead were considered for Rachel Cooper. Laughton also considered casting his wife Creator/ElsaLanchester, who ultimately suggested Lillian Gish for the role.
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** Early in production, Creator/CharlesLaughton wanted to play Harry Powell himself. When it became clear that this would be a difficult (if not impossible) sell to the studios, Creator/LaurenceOlivier lobbied for the role before being passed over in favor of the more bankable Creator/RobertMitchum.
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** Early in production, Creator/CharlesLaughton wanted to play Harry Powell himself. When it became clear that this would be a difficult (if not impossible) sell to the studios, Creator/LaurenceOlivier lobbied for the role before being passed over in favor of the more bankable (and more American) Creator/RobertMitchum.
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-->She looks and sounds as much like a wasted West Virginia girl as I do. The only bit she'll do convincingly is to float in the water with her throat cut.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/RobertMitchum was openly contemptuous of Creator/ShelleyWinters throughout the shooting of the film, and later claimed to have wished Creator/CharlesLaughton had actually used Winters in the scene when her character's body is seen dead underwater. When he first learned that she won the part, he said,
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* HostilityOnTheSet: HostilityOnTheSet:
** Creator/RobertMitchum was openly contemptuous of Creator/ShelleyWinters throughout the shooting of the film, and later claimed to have wished Creator/CharlesLaughton had actually used Winters in the scene when her character's body is seen dead underwater. When he first learned that she won the part, he said,
** Creator/RobertMitchum was openly contemptuous of Creator/ShelleyWinters throughout the shooting of the film, and later claimed to have wished Creator/CharlesLaughton had actually used Winters in the scene when her character's body is seen dead underwater. When he first learned that she won the part, he said,
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* NamesTheSame: [[Series/MyFamily The character of Ben Harper is not a grouchy English dentist]].
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* OneBookAuthor: This was Charles Laughton's directorial debut but the extremely negative reception and his own death seven years later meant he never directed another film.
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** Creator/BettyGrable and Creator/GraceKelly were considered for Willa Harper.
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** Creator/BettyGrable and Creator/BettyGrable, Creator/GraceKelly and Creator/TeresaWright were considered for Willa Harper.
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* HeAlsoDid: Besides directing, Laughton also heavily rewrote James Agee's screenplay before filming, but graciously declined any credit, giving Agee full writing credit.
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* HeAlsoDid: Besides directing, Laughton Creator/CharlesLaughton also heavily rewrote James Agee's screenplay before filming, but graciously declined any credit, giving Agee full writing credit.
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** Creator/GraceKelly was considered for Willa.
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** Creator/BettyGrable and Creator/GraceKelly was were considered for Willa.Willa Harper.
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* UsefulNotes/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Thrills: #34
** AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
*** #29 Villain, Reverend Harry Powell
** AFIS100Years100Thrills: #34
** AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
*** #29 Villain, Reverend Harry Powell
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