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George Sanders: "Caddishness of Homeric Proportions"

George Sanders: "Caddishness of Homeric Proportions"

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Mar 09, 2009
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A letter from George Sanders to Brian Aherne, reprinted in the latter's A Dreadful Man. The two men had quarreled after Sanders, fortified by vodka, expressed his low opinion of the acting profession, and when Sanders had to rush off to catch a plane, the argument continued via written correspondence.


December 31st, 1937
Dear Brian,

I was very happy to rec…

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