A celebrity encounter with actor Claude Rains, who once lived in West Chester, left a lasting mark on a man whose family owned a small inn in the Pocono Mountains in the 1950s and early 1960s, writes John Kelly for The Washington Post.
Watson Bullock first met the popular actor when he arrived at the inn, looking for a quiet place to spend the honeymoon with his sixth — and final — wife Rosemary.
“I was too young to be aware of his distinguished career, but his hair still had traces of dye from his most recent picture, The Lost World,” recalled Watson. Rains’ stardom cemented in the 1940s and continued until his death in 1967…