Charles Cullum (8 March 18991979) was a British

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and

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. On 29 December 1930 Mary Ellen Chaddock, a popular British magazine model, reportedly committed suicide after learning Cullum had married in New York. At the time he was touring the United States playing Captain Stanhope in the British war drama ''

Journey's End ''Journey's End'' is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry c ...

''. Cullum would later state that there was never a hint of engagement between him and Chaddock.

Filmography

References

Bibliography

* Ian Christie & Andrew Moor. ''Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker''. British Film Institute, 2005.

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* 1899 births 1979 deaths British male film actors British male stage actors British male television actors {{UK-screen-actor-stub