The Mask: George Sanders’s Weary Road

“My own desire as a boy was to retire,” George Sanders once said. In Sanders’s 1960 autobiography, Memoirs of a Professional Cad, this world-weariness is on full display. The suave, sardonic Oscar-winning star of Golden Age Hollywood made his living playing, as he put it, a “high-class sort of heel,” in classics like Rebecca, All About Eve, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Along the way, he allegedly racked up affairs with Dolores del Rio, Gene Tierney, Hedy Lamarr, and Lucille Ball and was married to not one but two of the legendary Gabor sisters. His book is constantly cited… Read Full Article