Hamletmiss says on 20/Jan/07
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were never tall men, but Costello always reached Abbott's nose. Several sources listed Costello's height as either 5'4" or 5'5", but on screen, Abbott looked 5'10" and Costello looked 5'4" as best.

Frank2 says on 20/Apr/06
I went back and just played portions of my DVD of Gone With the Wind. Bond is taller than Gable by at least two inches in almost ever shot. I find it very interesting since Gable was supposedly 6'1" and Bond 6'3" which would make perfect sense except for the fact that Gable wore boots with two inch, Cuban-style heels in the film and Bond was always at least two inches shorter than 6'4" John Wayne, and in some films even as much as three inches shorter. In The Long Gray Line, Bond wasn't much taller than Tyrone Power. There's a boxing scene in that film and in the ring both men look about the same height. And Power was supposedly just 5'10".

I do love a mystery!!

Frank2 says on 20/Apr/06
It might have been his official height, but he never looked it.

sam says on 20/Apr/06
Frank, I thought Bond's official height from his early football days was 6'3".

Frank2 says on 19/Apr/06
Maybe Tone is 6'2"! Or 6'3"! Hell! Let's make all these actors 6'6"!

If I were a betting man, and I've only bet hard cash on sure things, I bet that Gable was 6' even, Tone was 5'10" and Laughton was 5'8". I've met too many people who knew and worked with Gable in the fifties who claimed that by then he was about 5'11". And Gable was only in his fifties. When he died in 1960 he was 59. I doubt he had lost two inches going into his fifties. I do know he was a big guy since at the MGM auction I tried on his coat and it swallowed me up. Of course now it just might fit me better had I bought it. The last time I weighed myself I was well-over 180 lbs. As for Tone, by the time he made In Harm's Way he had lost some height and looked quite small next to John Wayne. He did a Run For Your Life with Ben Gazzara and was slightly shorter than 5'10.5" Gazzara. Tone died in 1968 at the age of 63 from lung cancer. He looked like he was in his eighties. Smoked too much of those damned cancer sticks.

Frank2 says on 17/Apr/06
Franchot Tone who's on the left in the first photo was about 5'10". He was about three inches shorter than Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty. In the second shot, Robert Newton who was 5'11" is much taller than Laughton. Laughton is obviously five inches shorter than 6'1" Raymond Massey in the third photo. It's clear to me that Laughton was 5'8". He was also about 300 lbs.

Frank2 says on 17/Apr/06
No, no, no, no, NO!! Laughton was about 5'8".

[Editor Rob: its not possible the guy shrunk by his 50's?]