Editing Charles Laughton (section)

==Personal life==
In 1927, Laughton began a relationship with [[Elsa Lanchester]], at the time a castmate in a stage play. The two were married in 1929, became US citizens in 1950, and remained together until Laughton's death. Over the years, they appeared together in several films, including ''Rembrandt'' (1936), ''Tales of Manhattan'' (1942), ''[[The Vessel of Wrath]]'' (1938), and ''[[The Big Clock (film)|The Big Clock]]'' (1948). Lanchester portrayed [[Anne of Cleves]], Henry VIII's fourth wife, opposite Laughton in ''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]''. They both received Academy Award nominations for their performances in ''[[Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)|Witness for the Prosecution]]'' (1957)—Laughton for Best Actor, and Lanchester for Best Supporting Actress—but neither won.

Laughton's [[bisexuality]] was corroborated by several of his contemporaries and is generally accepted by Hollywood historians.<ref>{{Harvnb|Callow|1988}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Crowe|2001}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Higham|1976}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Jones|2004}}</ref> Hollywood procurer and prostitute [[Scotty Bowers]] alleged in his memoir ''[[Full Service (book)|Full Service]]'' that Laughton was in love with [[Tyrone Power]] and that his sex life was exclusively homosexual.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bowers |first1=Scotty |title=[[Full Service (book)|Full Service]] |date=2012 |publisher=Grove Press |location=UK |page=198}}</ref> Actress [[Maureen O'Hara]], a friend and co-star of Laughton, disputed the contention that his sexuality was the reason Laughton and Lanchester did not have children, saying Laughton told her he had wanted children but that it had not been possible because of a botched abortion that Lanchester had early in her career of performing [[burlesque]].<ref>{{Harvnb|O'Hara|2005}}</ref> In her autobiography, Lanchester acknowledged two abortions in her youth – one of the pregnancies purportedly by Laughton – but did not mention infertility.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} According to her biographer, Charles Higham, the reason she did not have children was that she did not want any.<ref>{{Harvnb|Higham|1976|p=27}}</ref>

Laughton owned an estate on the bluffs above Pacific Coast Highway at 14954 Corona Del Mar in Pacific Palisades.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.capequity.com/properties/1005/|title=Cap Equity :: Homes – Pacific Palisades, Ca – Palisades Paradise|website=Cap Equity|access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref> The property suffered a landslide in 1944, referenced by [[Bertolt Brecht]] in his poem "Garden in Progress".<ref>''Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles'' by Erhard Bahr (page 96)</ref>

Laughton was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and supported the campaign of [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] during the [[1952 United States presidential election|1952 presidential election]].<ref>''Motion Picture and Television Magazine'', November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers</ref>