George Arliss World War II Radio Address

[bobfells]

Please check out our new post on the Arliss Archives at the link below. This time we have a very special item - the last professional appearance of Mr. A circa 1940 delivering an appeal to help the war effort in Britain. Our new post also provides images never before published on the Arliss Archives, including this original color photograph from the London run of THE GREEN GODDESS in 1923-24:

[Fred M. Stevens]

New York Clipper November 6, 1918

[bobfells]

Thanks for posting. That blurb pops up now and again suggesting that Stan Laurel and George Arliss were friends. I have come across anecdotal evidence that Arliss had a number of comedians among his friends including Weber and Fields. When they all lived in LA they apparently spent evenings together. I’d like to be a fly on that wall!