Editing Claude Rains (section)

==Personal life and death==

[[File:Debbie Reynolds Auction - Claude Rains "Captain Louis Renault" ivory military suit from "Casablanca" (5851596823) (2).jpg|thumb|The ivory military uniform Rains wore in ''Casablanca'' was sold at auction in 2011 for $55,000.<ref name="DR Auction"/>]]

Rains became a [[naturalized citizen of the United States]] in 1939.

He married six times and was divorced from the first five of his wives: [[Isabel Jeans]] (married 1913–1915); Marie Hemingway (to whom Rains was married for less than a year in 1920); [[Beatrix Thomson]] (1924–8 April 1935); Frances Propper (9 April 1935 – 1956); and the classical pianist [[Agi Jambor]] (4 November 1959 – 1960). In 1960, he married Rosemary Clark Schrode, to whom he was married until her death on 31 December 1964. His only child, Jennifer, was the daughter of Frances Propper. As an actress, she is known as Jessica Rains.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=k54Y1HLqWDQC&pg=PT104 Skal and Rains], p. 104</ref>

He acquired the {{Convert|380|acre|km2|adj=on}} Stock Grange Farm, built in 1747 in [[West Bradford Township, Pennsylvania|West Bradford Township]], [[Pennsylvania]] (just outside [[Coatesville, Pennsylvania|Coatesville]]), in 1941. The farm became one of the "great prides" of his life.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/photos/claude-rains-scrapbook-devoted-to-his-farm-stock-grange-total-12-items-/a/7006-49362.s| title=Claude Rains' Scrapbook Devoted to His Farm, Stock - Lot #49362 - Heritage Auctions| website=Heritage Auctions}}</ref> Here, he became a "gentleman farmer" and could relax and enjoy farming life with his then wife (Frances) churning the butter, their daughter collecting the eggs, with Rains himself ploughing the fields and cultivating the vegetable garden. He spent much of his time between film takes reading up on agricultural techniques to try when he got home. He sold the farm when his marriage to Propper ended in 1956; the building now, as then, is still referred to by locals as "Rains' Place".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailylocal.com/article/DL/20101114/NEWS/311149969|title=Thinking about Claude Rains and the pastoral Stock Grange Farm|date=8 March 2020}}</ref> Rains spent his final years in [[Sandwich, New Hampshire|Sandwich]], [[New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite news| last=Duckler| first=Ray| title=A Star's Last Act: The great Claude Rains spent his final years in New Hampshire| url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/4419930-95/a-stars-last-act| access-date=13 September 2013| newspaper=Concord Monitor| date=31 March 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130913193332/http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/4419930-95/a-stars-last-act| archive-date=13 September 2013}}</ref>

In his final years, he decided to write his memoirs and engaged journalist Jonathan Root to assist him. Rains' declining health delayed their completion and, with Root's death in March 1967, the project was never completed. A [[chronic alcoholic]], Rains died from [[cirrhosis of the liver]], having an [[abdominal hemorrhage]] in [[Laconia, New Hampshire|Laconia]] on 30{{nbsp}}May 1967, aged 77.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/31/archives/claude-rains-film-star-dead-began-career-on-london-stage-caesar-and.html | title=Claude Rains, Film Star, Dead; Began Career on London Stage; 'Caesar and Cleopatra' and the Invisible Man' Were Among Actor's Hits | work=The New York Times | date=31 May 1967 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-20-et-book20-story.html| title=Rains was never a minor character| date=20 November 2008| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> His daughter said, "And, just like most actors, he died waiting for his agent to call."<ref>{{cite book| last=Soister| first=John T.| date=19 July 2017| title=Claude Rains: A Comprehensive Illustrated to His Work in Film, Stage, Radio, Television and Recordings| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYuACgAAQBAJ&q=claude%20rains%20records&pg=PA244| publisher=McFarland| isbn=978-1-4766-1278-2}}</ref> He was buried at the Red Hill Cemetery in [[Moultonborough, New Hampshire|Moultonborough]], [[New Hampshire]]. He designed his own tombstone which reads "All things once, Are things forever, Soul, once living, lives forever".

In 2010, many of Rains' personal effects were put into an auction at [[Heritage Auctions]], including his 1951 Tony award, rare posters, letters and photographs. Also included in the auction were many volumes of his private leather-bound scrapbooks which contained many of his press cuttings and reviews from the beginning of his career. The majority of the items were used to help David J. Skal write his book on Rains, ''An Actor's Voice''. In 2011, the ivory military uniform (complete with medals) he wore as Captain Renault in ''Casablanca'' was put up for auction when noted actress and film historian [[Debbie Reynolds]] sold her collection of Hollywood costumes and memorabilia which she had amassed as a result of the [[Film memorabilia#1970 MGM auction|1970 MGM auction]].<ref name="DR Auction">{{cite web| url=http://www.icollector.com/Claude-Rains-Captain-Louis-Renault-ivory-military-suit-from-Casablanca_i10657974| title=Claude Rains "Captain Louis Renault" ivory military suit from Casablanca| website=iCollector.com Online Auctions| access-date=6 March 2017| archive-date=12 August 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812115904/http://www.icollector.com/Claude-Rains-Captain-Louis-Renault-ivory-military-suit-from-Casablanca_i10657974| url-status=dead}}</ref>