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Post by snsurone on Jul 25, 2018 17:23:09 GMT
He was the consummate example of the suave, upper-class Englishman, even when playing less-than-savory characters such as the slimy Jack Favell in REBECCA, or the acerbic Addison deWitt in ALL ABOUT EVE.
Even in B-movies, such as the "Falcon" series, he was an impeccable actor.
He was also briefly married to one of the Gabor sisters, but I can't remember if it was Zsa Zsa or Magda.
In his suicide note, he claimed he was leaving this world because he was "bored".
But I've read that in reality, he had terminal cancer.
I suppose he just couldn't face the physical degeneration of that horrible disease.
I wonder how MY FAIR LADY would be if Sanders played Henry Higgins.
Meaning no disrespect to Rex Harrison, who won the Oscar for the role.
But, IMO, Sanders would have been great.
Your thoughts?
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 25, 2018 17:45:54 GMT
'He was also briefly married to one of the Gabor sisters, but I can't remember if it was Zsa Zsa or Magda.'
Actually it was both of them -- Zsa Zsa for five years, Magda for less than one.
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Post by kijii on Jul 25, 2018 18:10:20 GMT
Have you ever seen him in Rage in Heaven (1941)?
Here is plays the more savory guy and Robert Montgomery plays the less savory guy.
For a completely amoral character, I would suggest his portrayal of Charles Strickland in The Moon and Sixpence (1942) based on W. Somerset Maugham's novella.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 25, 2018 18:14:45 GMT
 One of his nice guy roles, Call Me Madam 1953 with Ethel Merman, and he sang "Married for Love" all the way up the hit parades. |
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Post by politicidal on Jul 25, 2018 18:39:26 GMT
Thought he was good in 'DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL' and 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'.
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 25, 2018 18:43:56 GMT
Twice with Hitchcock in 1940 -- nice guy and co-hero in FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT / total cad in REBECCA.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 25, 2018 18:55:28 GMT
He was the first one to play Mr. Freeze on Batman.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 25, 2018 19:02:30 GMT
"It is I, Shere Khan."
My introduction to him.
I saw him in a real obscurity the other night.
THE KING OF AFRICA.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 25, 2018 19:11:13 GMT
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
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Post by jervistetch on Jul 26, 2018 2:13:19 GMT
I was trying to find a quirky video involving George and I did. Who knew he was a crooner?
What I also was unaware of was that George played Waldo Lydecker in "A Portrait of Murder", a television adaptation of LAURA. Here it is. I'm actually thinking of watching it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 26, 2018 5:23:28 GMT
Here he is with a pretty little starlet in All About Eve
 His character was named Addison DeWitt… somehow that sounds rather familiar. He gets to say things like [voiceover intro] Those of you who do not read, attend the theater, listen to unsponsored radio programs, or know anything of the world in which you live, it is perhaps necessary to introduce myself. My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it, I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theater.
Why not read my column to pass the time? The minutes will fly like hours.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 26, 2018 18:31:06 GMT
...though I thought he was miscast as Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert in the film "Ivanhoe" w/Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor, he pulled it off. And Liz Taylor was never more beautiful...
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Post by marshamae on Jul 26, 2018 20:31:25 GMT
completely agree about Ivanhoe . He was miscast but made me believe he was besotted about Taylor.
He made a lot of b pictures which is too bad after the fine performances he gave in Foreign Corespondent and Rebecca. But he was always good .
A few we haven’t mentioned
Action in Arabia - a fun desert adventure with some great aerial shots.
Quiet Please Murder- Nazis in the library . I love Nazi spy flicks
Man Hunt - a really exciting episodic adventure with Walter Pigeon as a man that took a shot at Hitler, and Sanders as the man hunting him. Great cast.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy- more Nazis in our midst, with Edward G Robinson chasing them
Four Men and a Prayer- Sanders plays one of 4 brothers ( Richard Greene and David Niven are two others) trying to save their father ( C Aubrey Smith) from false accusations. Loretta Young is the girl they are chasing. Silly story but fun.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 26, 2018 23:25:35 GMT
His character was named Addison DeWitt… somehow that sounds rather familiar. He gets to say things like [voiceover intro] Those of you who do not read, attend the theater, listen to unsponsored radio programs, or know anything of the world in which you live, it is perhaps necessary to introduce myself. My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it, I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theater.
Why not read my column to pass the time? The minutes will fly like hours.
Here's a mini-mystery for the files of Salzmank , you or anyone else interested. I first saw AAE in the early '70s, at a small Beverly Hills revival house called the Beverly Canon, and admired the witty cynicism of some dialogue at the tail end of the excerpt above: "I am essential to the Theater - as ants are to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field..."Every time I saw it thereafter, I listened for that bit of dialogue. And never heard it again. Not in a theater, not on TV, not on home video. I began to wonder if I'd imagined it. Then, about 20 years after that first viewing, I acquired a copy of the final shooting script. And by Hamilton, there it was, right on the page! But inasmuch as I'd never before seen that script, I must have heard it, that one time, anyway. I wonder if there's anyone here who recalls ever having heard those lines. |
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Post by Salzmank on Jul 27, 2018 0:58:35 GMT
On the case, Doghouse6! Admittedly, this one’s a head-scratcher… I looked up the script online and saw the line there, black and white, and then I found the opening sequence on YouTube—with the line cut out of Sanders’s voiceover, as you wrote. And there’s yet another complication: just about every book I’ve found about the film with some pages available online has the exact line as well! The New York Times’ film critic A.O. Scott not only quotes the line but devotes an extensive bit of analysis to exactly what Mankiewicz was trying to say with it. The National Society of Film Critics’ Peter Travers quotes the whole thing exactly as it appears in the script. The Times also quoted it in ’92, and it appears as “one of the greatest quotes about the theater” in several places. So! According to Sam Staggs’s All About “All About Eve,” Zanuck deleted large chunks of Addison’s voiceover in the beginning. So it’s probable that the scene was filmed. But how could you, Scott, et al. have seen it? That’s what I’m scratching my head on; I can’t find anything about another print. The only other possibility I can find is this, from the Staggs book: the radio adaptation begins with that line. I’m not sure if that’s the solution, but it is intriguing… I’ll check some more in the morning. Thanks for the case!  |
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Post by rudeboy on Jul 27, 2018 1:11:00 GMT
A favourite of mine, the consummate gentleman cad and the kind of man whom I imagine would put on evening wear to go and post a letter.
Personal favourite performances include:
Rebecca
All About Eve
Foreign Correspondent
The Picture of Dorian Gray (I read the novel recently and struggled to avoid internally reading Lord Henry's dialogue in Sanders' voice)
Journey to Italy
Village of the Damned
Moonfleet
The Black Swan
...and, of course, as the greatest of all animated villains in The Jungle Book
...but he was always, always watchable.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 1:16:30 GMT
'He was also briefly married to one of the Gabor sisters, but I can't remember if it was Zsa Zsa or Magda.'
Actually it was both of them -- Zsa Zsa for five years, Magda for less than one. Trade-in. |
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Post by Salzmank on Jul 27, 2018 1:34:06 GMT
Let me just add, before I pack in and call it a night (gotta get up early tomorrow), that the Sleuth mystery is, of course, another Mankiewicz movie, and I was roped into an intriguing ‘Reddit’ discussion about people who distinctly remember Bette Davis pushing Joan Crawford down the stairs in Baby Jane. (A similar scene happens in Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte—and Kiss of Death.) So what’s up with Mankiewicz and Bette Davis mysteries?   |
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Post by Salzmank on Jul 27, 2018 12:43:47 GMT
Doghouse6, I’m nearly completely stumped on the AAE mystery. I’ve not been able to find a scrap of evidence of another print, yet I’ve read quotations of that exact line from people who’ve never read the script all over the ‘Net. I thought of reaching out to A.O. Scott and/or Sam Staggs but can’t find any contact information for either of them other than Twitter (and, unlike Michael Caine, they don’t have a “personal message” feature activated—not that that did me much good re: Caine). I posted it to another INTK forum and hope they have an answer. That’s a real head-scratcher if I ever saw one.
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Post by Salzmank on Jul 27, 2018 13:23:17 GMT
I found an e-mail for New York Times’ A.O. Scott and just e-mailed him with the question; he quoted Doghouse6 ’s line in his book Better Living through Criticism. Hoping that he has an answer…or, at least, just responds. |
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