Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bogey to Norman. This is Vidal's personal notion as well. He firmly believes that the screen, not literature, shaped his generation of writers. "Without Bogart," he says, "there could be no Norman Mailer. Without George Arliss," he adds with a Disraeliish gleam, "there wouldn't have been...
...table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film of 1929-of Dizzy as a brilliant theatrical Jew, triumphing over early poverty and snobbery to create the British empire singlehanded and present it to Queen Victoria like a posy of primroses...
Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). "The Invincible Mr. Disraeli," starring Trevor Howard and Greer Garson, is the first in-depth portrait of Dizzy since George Arliss' preposterous hoddydoddy. Color...