#claude rains

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Propaganda

Dr. Jaquith (Now Voyager) - He's wise. He's kind. He listens to women without dismissing them as hysterical. He takes no shit from old women with too much money and no fucking heart. He is one of my favorites!

Erique Claudin (Phantom of the Opera) - My favorite Phantom! Does it differ wildly from the book? Yes. Do I care? NO! Claudin starts the movie by BREAKING YOUR HEART IN TWO and then after the first act he gets to lean into the creep factor by murdering people who get in the way of him helping his daughter achieve her opera goals. While the father/daughter story was cut from the final film, you can 100% see it in Claude Rains' wonderful performance that this is a man so filled with regret at leaving his infant daughter 20 years ago, that he is willing to do anything to help her succeed…even if she doesn't know that he's the one helping her.

This is part of the semifinals for The King of the Claudes tournament and other matchups can be found here!

Additional Propaganda under the cut!

**Erique Claudin has a lot of propaganda, so we are attaching what we can and making another separate propaganda post to include all submissions, which you can find HERE!**

Dr. Jaquith

Not even kidding you guys, he could fix me. I'm being so real right now. Bette Davis herself said that Charlotte would go on to marry Dr. Jaquith and keep doing their own thing in the future!

The fact that he finished his scenes for this and literally the next day, he went on to film for Casablanca. Man's is dedicated.

Erique Claudin

This movie is gorgeous and the storytelling is a masterpiece! I don't care what anyone says, this is my favorite adaptation of Phantom and Claude sells it perfectly. He's excellent at toeing the line between a masked mad man and a caring individual and I will be forever fuming about how the father/daughter relationship wasn't official. To me, it will be! He's just the right amount of soft fondness and I was squealing because of how adorable he is when he stammers.

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The Invisible Man (1933)

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Universal Monsters by Alex Ross

Dracula (Bela Lugosi, 1931) Frankenstein (Boris Karloff, 1931) The Mummy (Boris Karloff, 1932) The Invisible Man (Claude Rains, 1933) Bride of Frankenstein (Elsa Lanchester, 1935) The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr, 1941) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

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THE WOLF MAN (1941)

Director: George Waggner Cinematography: Joseph Valentine

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Now that all of our Prince Johns have been eliminated, it's time to determine by popular vote...

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my babygirl who i love so dearly

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If you haven't seen Casablanca, please watch it here before voting. As with all movie-mini polls, this is about the characters, not the actors. If you vote for the Nazi I'm going to kill you.

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Today in 1944, CASABLANCA took Outstanding Motion Picture at the 16th #Oscars The film also won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the ceremony held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre #OnThisDay

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The Invisible Man (1933)

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Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

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Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid in a publicity photo for CASABLANCA (1942).

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[Note: This poll is a re-do of an older poll, as the original poll for it received less than 2,000 votes.]

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The King of the Claudes Kick-off!

Hello everyone! We're so excited to begin our tournament which will start at 7 PM EST. Again, we're planning on scheduling one poll a day, each one lasting one week and having five polls a week. You can submit propaganda via our ask box or by tagging us to reblog it @kingoftheclaudes. Match-ups can be found via our pinned post and that will update with each new poll. Thank you all so much for sending in propaganda so far and we hope everyone has fun!

And, on a related note...

Happy Birthday Claude Rains!

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