Mr. Charles Laughton has been looking to his wardrobe, taking out his oldest pair of grey flannel trousers, a woollen pullover, and sending the lot to Madame Tussaud's. For film-star Laughton is to be made into wax and put into the famous exhibition. Mr. Tussaud insisted on having tle actual clothes which the star had worn. "Clothes," he said, "take on the personality of the wearer and whenever possible I use dresses and suits that have been worn by the subject."
It seems that Marlene Dietrich was thus induced to part with her favourite gown which now hangs on the wax effigy of the glamorous Dietrich in Madame Tussaud's. Katharine Hepburn gave up the frock she wore in the film, "The Little Minister," so that her wax model might be as near the original as possible. Quoting Mr. Tussaud again: "Even shoes have to be worn before I'll put them on my models."
In one way and another, they cause Mr. Tussaud a great deal of trouble. Even when he has made photographic likenesses and dressed them with the greatest of care, work on them is not finished for all time. The originals change their way of dressing, grow older. Children seem to present the most difficulties. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, for instance, late growing up so quickly, that their effigies have to be constantly remodelled.
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