Charles Coburn

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Charles Coburn

American actor

Also known as: Charles Douville Coburn

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George Stevens
Swing Time, Gunga Din, and Woman of the Year
…keep the marriage a secret; Charles Coburn and Beulah Bondi provided comic support. A box-office hit, the screwball comedy ended Stevens’s slump.
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…keep the marriage a secret; Charles Coburn and Beulah Bondi provided comic support. A box-office hit, the screwball comedy ended Stevens’s slump.
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Sam Wood
Wood’s heyday
Charles Coburn starred as the wealthy owner of a department store who goes undercover in order to root out union activists but instead is befriended by a clerk (played by Jean Arthur) and develops sympathy for his mistreated employees. Kings Row (1942), a sanitized adaptation…
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Charles Coburn starred as the wealthy owner of a department store who goes undercover in order to root out union activists but instead is befriended by a clerk (played by Jean Arthur) and develops sympathy for his mistreated employees. Kings Row (1942), a sanitized adaptation…
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