Frontmatter illustrations
p. i: Claude Rains's personal bookplate.
p. xii: “Like a lion.” Pacific Palisades, California, 1963 (courtesy of Roddy McDowall).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Skal, David J.
  Claude Rains : an actor's voice / David J. Skal with Jessica Rains.
     p. cm.—  (Screen classics)
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 978-0-8131-2432-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Rains, Claude, 1889–1967. 2.  Actors—United States—Biography.  I. Rains, Jessica.
II. Title.
  PN2287.R225S53 2008
  791.4302’8092—dc22
  [B]                                                                                            2008026317

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