 However, Gielgud later went on to recollect a time when he was in New York and in the audience during an event that included a focus on Bette Davis.Bette Davis often cited Rains as one of her favorite actors and colleagues.Gielgud commented that he once wrote that "The London stage suffered a great loss when Claude Rains deserted it for motion pictures", but he later went on to say, "but when I see him now on the screen and remember him, I must admit that the London stage's loss was the cinema's gain.