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The other people in the theater were not watching the movie, but rather watching Claude Rains explain to his daughter how he made the film. As a young child she stuttered. Her father's cure for this was for everyone in the house to sing everything they wanted to say.
- January 24, 1938
Jessica Rains was born on 24 January 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Sleeper (1973), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) and Kotch (1971).
- Actress, Producer
- January 24, 1938
- Jessica Rains
Feb 23, 2018 · How Claude brought his wife and baby Jessica to the set to ease Bette Davis’s ardor. We talked her interesting run in with Joan Crawford at Christinas Birthday Party. Jessica never went back!
William Claude Rains was born on 10 November 1889 at 26 Tregothnan Road in Clapham, London. His parents were Emily Eliza (née Cox) and stage actor Frederick William Rains. He lived in the slums of London. Rains was one of 12 children, all but three dying of malnutrition when still infants.
The first time his daughter ever saw Rains in a film was in 1950 when he took her to see The Invisible Man (1933) in a small theater in Pennsylvania. They sat in the back, and Rains told her all about the making of the film as it played.
- November 10, 1889
- May 30, 1967
Nov 20, 2008 · It was a great, singular career that has long deserved a thoughtful biography, which David J. Skal, working with Rains’ daughter, Jessica, doesn’t quite provide in “Claude Rains: An Actor’s...
Kind sister-in-law Lisa (Ilka Chase) visits "Cascade" where Jaquith (Claude Rains) reports his psychiatric patient Charlotte (Bette Davis), whom we've not seen since she began treatment, is making progress, in Now, Voyager, 1942, from the Olive Higgins Prouty novel.
