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Watch on the Rhine (Paul Lukas, Bette Davis; TIME, Sept. 6).
Watch on the Rhine (Paul Lukas, Bette Davis; TIME, Sept. 6).
Watch on the Rhine (Paul Lukas, Bette Davis; TIME, Sept. 6).
Films were silent when Lukas reached Hollywood. When sound arrived, Lukas was still talking Hungarian. Paramount offered him $5,000 to call off their contract. Instead, Lukas hired a University of Southern California boy to teach him U.S.C. English, hung on to Hollywood.
Since then he has oscillated between villainy and chivalry in such films as Little Women, Concessions of a Nazi Spy, The Lady Vanishes, The Three Musketeers, Strictly Dishonorable. He played Kurt Muller in the stage production of Watch on the Rhine for two years. Says Lukas, who prefers repertory to...