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Rembrandt (Original title)
Date: 06 November 1936 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Alexander Korda

Synopsis: The last years of the painter's life from the death of his wife Saskia in 1642, to his own death in 1669.

Genres:
Biopic, Historical drama

Subjects:
Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch painting
Releases
Date: 06 November 1936Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Length: 7913 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (29)
A London Film Production: London Film Productions, Presents: Alexander Korda, Unit Manager: Geoffrey Boothby, Production Manager: David B. Cunynghame, Scenario by: June Head, [Screenplay]: Arthur Wimperis, Lajos Biró, From the Film Play by: Carl Zuckmayer, Photographed by: Georges Perinal, [Photography]: Richard Angst, Camera Operator: Robert Krasker, [Stills]: Edward Woods, Special Effects Directed by: Ned Mann, Supervising Editor: William Hornbeck, Film Editor: Francis Lyon, Settings Designed by: Vincent Korda, Assistant Art Director: H.M. Waller, Costumes Designed by: John Armstrong, Musical Score: Geoffrey Toye, Musical Director: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recordist: A. Fisher, Recording Director: A.W. Watkins, Sound System: Western Electric, [Boom Operator]: John W. Mitchell, Logo [Sound System]: Western Electric, Sound Mixer: J.C. Cook, Technical Advisor: Johan de Meester, [Studio]: Denham Studios
Cast (56)
Charles Laughton (Rembrandt van Rijn), Gertrude Lawrence (Geertje Dirx), Elsa Lanchester (Hendrikje Stoffels), Edward Chapman (Fabrizius), Walter Hudd (Captain Banning Cocq), Roger Livesey (Beggar Saul), John Bryning (Titus van Rijn), Sam Livesey (auctioneer), Herbert Lomas (Harmenzs van Rijn, Rembrandt's father), Allan Jeayes (Dr Tulp), John Clements (Govaert Flinck), Raymond Huntley (Ludwik), Abraham Sofaer (Dr Menasseh), Lawrence Hanray (Heertsbeeke), Austin Trevor (Marquis), Henry Hewitt (Jan Six), Gertrude Musgrove (Elsa, girl at inn), Richard Gofe (Titus as a child), Basil Gill (Adrien van Rijn, Rembrandt's brother), Barry Livesey, James Carney (peasant lad), Jack Livesey (journeyman), John Turnbull (minister), Edmund Willard (van Zeeland), Baroness Barany ([Criada, waitress at inn]), Marius Goring ([Baron Leivens]), Meinhart Maur ([Ornia]), George Merritt ([churchwarden]), William Fazan ([burgomaster]), Lewis Broughton, Frederick Burtwell ([Saskia's brother]), Quinton McPherson ([official]), Roger Wellesley ([burgomaster's secretary]), Byron Webber, Bellenden Powell ([court member]), Charles Paton, Hector Abbas, Len Sharp ([burgher at auction]), Jerrold Robert Shaw, George Pughe ([museum director]), Hay Petrie ([jeweller]), Wilfrid Hyde White ([townsman]), Skelton Knaggs, Frank Foley, Robert Cochran, Joyce Young, Peta Mannering, Wendy Weddell, Marian Everall, Nina Keech, Pamela Wood, Pat Law, Evelyn Ankers, Arthur Burne, Philip Godfrey, Joan Matheson ([uncredited])