George Arliss Collection "4 for 44"

George Arliss Collection "4 for 44"The distinguished career of Academy Award winner* George Arliss is marked by his powerful portrayals of historical figures from Disraeli to Alexander Hamilton to Voltaire. Fans who don't know Arliss also excelled at comedy are in for a treat with these three charmers. Drama mixes with laughs in Old English, as an indebted shipbuilder concocts a clever scheme to provide for his beloved grandchildren. Mary Astor costars in A Successful Calamity, a witty

the renowned tenor sings Ave Maria

Sand aids a disturbed young woman (Sharon Farrell) who claims her brother's been murdered

the silver screen enticed escape-craving Depression Era audiences with salacious slices of life

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laconic style to his new role

the first Hollywood film to confront anti-Semitism

His partners are Howard Keel and Gower Champion and the lovelies they look at are Kathyrn Grayson

who seeks to scuttle their love match

Erica (Shirley Knight) is one of the innocents

a Russian writer follows her into an elegant casino

Christmas in Connecticut's Dennis Morgan stars (and lends his melodic tenor to several tunes) as the elusive El Khobar

A lot can change in five years