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George Sanders and Linda Darnell in Douglas Sirk's "Summer Storm" Summer Storm (1944) is a romance melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk, starring George Sanders and Linda Darnell. The supporting cast includes Edward Everett Horton, Hugo Haas, and Anna Lee. The film is based on the novel The Hunti read more

Mere Oberon, George Sanders, and Laird Cregar in "The Lodger" The Lodger (1944) is an American horror-suspense film directed by John Brahm and starring Merle Oberon, George Sanders, and Laird Cregar. The film is based on Jack the Ripper and is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's silent version, read more

Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Sanders find themselves in "Hangover Square" Hangover Square (1945) is an American period film noir directed by John Brahm and starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Sanders. Others in the cast include Glenn Langan, Faye Marlowe, and Alan N read more

1. In his autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad, George Sanders recalled his first film role in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937) as one of the gods: "The part called for me to ride half-naked and shiny with grease, at four o'clock in the morning during one of England's coldest winte read more

I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve published something directly on this blog! Well, it was in January when I shared my review of Marlon Brando’s biography written by Patricia Bosworth. And I’m back today with another book review! This time, I’ll be giving you my a read more

“George Sanders: Memoirs of a Professional Cad” Book Giveaway! Qualifying Entry Task for Facebook/Blog Contest Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our “George Sanders: Memoirs of a Professional Cad” Giveaway contest! This time we’ll be giving away TWO copies of read more

Image Source She was very beautiful and very inquiring and unsure--she was somebody in a play not yet written, uncertain of her part in the over-all plot. As far as I can recall, she was humble, punctual and untemperamental. She wanted people to like her. -George Sanders, about Marilyn Monroe Qu read more

This past Sunday, while Captain America boomed away in the next theater, a near-capacity crowd enjoyed George Sanders being his slippery best in Douglas Sirk's A Scandal in Paris (1946). It felt like a minor victory that a small part of Pacific Place Theaters was given to such an unusual classic. L read more

Image Source "Beauty is only skin deep," as some dull clot once remarked. A very proper depth in my opinion. After all, who needs a beautiful gall bladder? -George Sanders Quote Source read more

Image Source Crime on My Hands Craig Rice, George Sanders Dean Street Press 2015 (Originally published 1944) Stranger at Home  Leigh Brackett, George Sanders Deant Street Press 2015 (Originally published 1946) I just whipped through a pair of vintage George Sanders mysteries, and to my grea read more

Share This!A young man makes a wish for perpetual youth and gets it, but at a terrible cost. The first scene of the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray and the opening of the 1891 Oscar Wilde novel are the same—a “studio . . . filled with the rich odor of roses” and “the gleam of the honey-sweet read more

Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, George Sanders, born today, July 3, in 1906! The sophisticated and quite often ‘villainous’ George Sanders… ….. George Sanders in his Oscar winning role for Best Supporting Actor as the acerbic theater critic, Addison DeWitt, in All Ab read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me by David R. Slavitt 9780810126244 Northwestern University Press 2009 Slavitt has a lot to say. In this book, he gets an opportunity to get those  read more

Memoirs of a Professional Cad by George Sanders Dean Street Press Originally Published 1960 9781910570463 - Paperback Barnes and Noble  IndieBound Powell's “You should watch the film for George Sanders.” In one form or another this is a line I’ve repeated often during my yea read more

George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me by David R. Slavitt 9780810126244 Northwestern University Press 2009 Slavitt has a lot to say. In this book, he gets an opportunity to get those thoughts on paper and into the public's hands. Slavitt is a film critic (local to me since he lives in my a read more

Memoirs of a Professional Cad by George Sanders Dean Street Press Originally Published 1960 9781910570463 - Paperback Barnes and Noble  IndieBound Powell's “You should watch the film for George Sanders.” In one form or another this is a line I’ve repeated often during my yea read more