 His association with director Alexander Korda began in 1933 with the hugely successful "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII), for which Laughton won the Academy Award for Best Actor.He also continued to act occasionally on stage, including a US production of "The Life of Galileo" by (and with) Bertolt Brecht.Laughton soon gave up the stage for films and returned to Hollywood, where his next film was "White Woman" (1933) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malayan jungle.