 His screen test for "A Bill of Divorcement" (1932) for a New York representative of RKO was a failure but, according to some accounts, led to his being cast in the title role of James Whale's "The Invisible Man" (1933) after his screen test and unique voice were inadvertently overheard from the next room.His agent, Harold Freedman, was a family friend of Carl Laemmle, who controlled Universal Pictures at the time, and had been acquainted with Rains in London and was keen to cast him in the role.According to Rains' daughter, this was the only film of his he ever saw.