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Article: Charles Laughton's last wine is up for auction.
- Article from:
- Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2008
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THE last remaining bottle of wine from the collection of Academy Award-winning actor Charles Laughton - a rare Chateau Lafite 1870 - is expected to fetch up to [pounds sterling]4,000 at Sotheby's in London tomorrow.
The bottle, with its bin-soiled, scuffed and slightly torn label, had been stored in the cellars of the Laughton family hotel, the Pavilion in Scarborough, until its demolition.
Laughton worked at the Pavilion as a young man but after returning from service in the First World War he was drawn to the stage.
He won a best actor Oscar in 1933 for The Private Life of Henry VIII and other ...