Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Arliss are holding forth at the Metropolitan this week in a polished performance revolving around the problems of a royal marriage. The production finds Arliss quite at home in a part as well suited to his enduring capabilities as "Disraeli" and "The Millionaire...
Because of something recognizably superior in the Arliss personality, one finds a peculiarly human atmosphere in all his films. The author of "Up from Blooms bury" has an inherent gift that makes it not only believable but transparently natural that, for instance, an assassin who took some rather inaccurate pistol shots at him in the first part of the show, should later stand amongst an admiring crowd, reverently whispering "The king, the kind...
University--"A Successful Calamity." George Arliss as financier who wins back the affection of his family by pretending to be poor. Splendid for the children...
...film shows an obvious attempt on the part of the producers to provide Arliss with a vehicle, however crude, in which to display his often repeated and admittedly delightful mannerisms. The whole performance was rendered so obvious by overacting on the part of the supporting cast, and lack of imagination on the part of the author that Arliss' already overworked portrayal of a twinkling gentleman of leisure failed utterly to produce the desired effect...
...impossible to raise the standard of a poor picture by means of the reputation of a great actor without reducing that reputation to a corresponding degree in the process. If Warner Brothers, incorporated recognizes that fact, and comes to the realization that the strength of Arliss' personality transcends limitations of appearance and manner, a few more productions like "Disraeli" might almost be expected to appear in the future...