If you're not a fan of classic cinema, you may not recognize his name. However, in addition to becoming a renowned Oscar-nominated character actor with one of the industry's most distinctive voices, ...

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Claude Rains was very short. When he appeared in Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcock had to stand him on a box for some of his scenes with Ingrid Bergman. He became a movie star in his early forties ...

Schickel is the author, most recently, of "You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story." Claude Rains was luckier than most of his character-acting peers in Hollywood’s so-called classic age: He ...

“Building this house was a deeply personal moment for us — a testament to this big project in our lives, the greatest success we’ve achieved,” says Rains co-founder Daniel Brix Hesselager while ...