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Of Monocles and Mystery: Charles Douville Coburn

Of Monocles and Mystery: Charles Douville Coburn

by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 17, 2019 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Academy Awards, Charles Coburn, Classic movies, Thomas Mitchell

He’s one of the preeminent character actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and, like Sydney Greenstreet and Marie Dressler, among the small club of performers who started hugely successful movie careers around age 60, which at the time was not “the new 50,” it was...

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