Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historical play in the grand manner. Its dramatis personae includes George & Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Senator Roberts, Count Talleyrand, Philip Schuyler, John Jay and Betsy Hamilton, in addition to the first Secretary of the Treasury who is impersonated by no less a personage than George Arliss. Distending his nostrils and speaking in the scrupulous accents which last year got him a gold medal for "diction." Cinemactor Arliss, who was also co-author of the play on which the cinema was based, revels in the intrigues, political and amorous, which preceded the passage of Hamilton's Assumption Bill...
...below), Jack L. Warner, Warner Bros, vice president in charge of production, announced that Warner Bros, had established a new studio at Teddington, Middlesex, England and planned to make 15 English and twelve French pictures there in the next year. Definitely scheduled for the Teddington Studio was George Arliss' next picture...
...impersonation of a woebegone author, he states the story's theme: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Later he makes soberly improper advances to a maidservant, meanders about at a fancy dress party in a Colonial costume and a wig which makes him look like George Arliss out of focus...
Fenway--"The Millonaire". George Arliss, the aristocrat of the screen turns democrat, in a filling station milieu...
...Millionaire (Warner). There is nothing spectacular about this picture except that George Arliss the Great, hitherto always decked out in fancy dress for the cinema, wears plain clothes through it all and even-a good deal of the time-overalls. It is still nothing much, only a story about a millionaire whose doctor makes him retire from his business, the manufacture of automobiles, and go to California to rest. Idleness makes him sick, so he sneaks out of his fine house and, under an assumed name, buys a half interest in a filling station. He goes to work...