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GEORGE SANDERS, WHOSE TEUTONIC TIDBITS WOULD EVEN MAKE HITLER CRY "COMMAND FUEHRER, WE FOLLOW!" IS AS GOOD IN SAINTLY ROLES AS WHEN HE'S PLAYING SINNERS
SINCE George Sanders' name was added to the roster of the slowly-fading ''Hollywood Eligible Bachelor" list, and this being Leap Year, I thought it high time to find out more about this reputed recluse, and pass the information on to his fans. As my poor old Chevy coughed and pushed its way up the hills to the "Saint's" home, I faltered for a moment. It is common gossip here that George loves nothing more than his sleep, spending eighteen or twenty hours, on non-working days, in the arms of Morpheus.
Though the publicity director of RKO had assured me that two o'clock in the afternoon would be okay, I wondered if it would not be wiser for me to turn around and take my car into the service station close by, to find out what they would allow me on a "tradein." A little more thought brought the realization that with " no storv" there could be "no-tradein."
With a final spurt the Chevy stopped before the last house on the hill. There, at the foot of a large mountain, was Sanders' home, which, but for his man-servant, he occupies alone.
The first impression, on meeting the "Saint," is that he is much larger and taller than he appears on the screen. There he stood completely framed in the doorway. For the moment his strictly British "hello" startled me. Perhaps I had, subconsciously, expected to be greeted in that German accent that is so well known to those who have seen him on the screen. There have been so many rumors that Sanders is part German because of his perfect interpretation when playing a Teuton. On questioning George on this
hearsay, I found that he was half-Russian and halfEnglish, having been born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1906. However, he was born under the protection of the English Embassy, making him an English citizen.
His earliest and sharpest memory is the horror of the Russian Revolution. With his father, then a hated capitalist, he made a thrilling and never-to-be-forgotten escape across the ice-covered rivers, fleeing madly from the anarchists who threatened to behead his father.
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