George Arliss

What is your name?

My name is Arliss.

Arliss.

There you are, folks.

And your first name? Darcy.

Sarah, I have an idea.

An idea that will make me the power of the world.

As sure as my name is not George Arliss.

Yes.

I'm Gordon McNulty, and this week I'm joined once again by Ben Miller to discuss George Arliss's Oscar-nominated performance in the 1930 film The Green Goddess.

Ben, great to have you back on the show.

Oh, it's great to be back.

You know, anytime we have the opportunity to talk about these...

You know, those cult classic and these cinematic gems.

I mean, I can imagine this is probably going to be your highest rated episode just because of the, you know, the people clamoring for the genius of George Arliss.

Yeah,

Can't you just picture me as Tom Sawyer?

Yes, if George Arliss is Huckleberry Finn.

Now, that's silly.

Imagine George Arliss running around in his bare feet.

Gee, that would be some scandal.

No doubt.

What's the matter with them? You look like a big, fat Shirley Temple.

Oh, yeah? Well, you look like George Arliss 20 years from now.

Is that so? Well, I don't mind looking like George Arliss.

He's one of our greatest actors.

That's where the resemblance ends.

You're different, I see.

Don, you better get some sleep tonight and stop impersonating George Arliss,

you know?

Come on, everybody, get on your toes.

Seeing on the Stage by Clayton Hamilton.

Acting and impersonation, George Arliss.

In a recent Sunday issue of the New York Times, Mr. John Corbin published an interesting essay on acting and impersonation.

He pointed out the fact that the ablest impersonators seldom make good actors, and that great actors seldom make more than passable impersonators.

Irving's Dante, as he walked, leaned forward and held his left shoulder a little higher than the other.

These details, of course, were culled from the description by Boccaccio, who saw the divine poet with his own eyes when he himself was an observing little boy of nine.

Since the death of Sir Henry Irving, no other celebrated actor has also exhibited such clever achievements in impersonation as Mr. George Arliss.

At the present time, Mr. Arliss is perhaps most noted for his impersonation of Disraeli, but he had already asserted his eminence in the finer art of acting long before he first put on the makeup of Lord Beaconsfield.

yeah

that's gonna be man once they figure that out i think is when we're gonna we're gonna get the ball rolling george arliss won for best actor that year for disraeli norma sheer won for the divorcee again there was a little scandal there they think that maybe she paid some people off to get that one

best director of lewis millstone for all quiet on the

milestone lewis milestone for all quiet or all yeah all quiet on the western front best writing the big house best cinematography with bird at the south pole have not heard of that movie So those are the big ones.