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THOUGHTS: George Sanders and VN
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Has nobody noticed a striking resemblance between the actor George
Sanders
and Nabokov (on his best portraits)?
Both of them were born is St Petersburg within 6 years time, both
families
fled Russia after the bolshevist coup and went to the UK, their careers
hapenned mostly in the USA...
Yesterday I was watching The son of Monte Cristo (1940) where Sanders
plays a magnificent villain General Gurko Lanen, and memories of Zembla,
Desperation, Invitation to BEHEADING, Pale fire and Ada kept coming
into
my head. I have searched the archives and just found a mention to
Sanders
as DeWitt, the theatre critic in Eva. Even that name sounds a bit
nabokovian (too obvious perhaps).
The biography of Mr Sanders in itself a novel till his death (suicide)
in
a small seaside spanish hotel back in 1972.
Dr. José J. Bermúdez
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Sanders
and Nabokov (on his best portraits)?
Both of them were born is St Petersburg within 6 years time, both
families
fled Russia after the bolshevist coup and went to the UK, their careers
hapenned mostly in the USA...
Yesterday I was watching The son of Monte Cristo (1940) where Sanders
plays a magnificent villain General Gurko Lanen, and memories of Zembla,
Desperation, Invitation to BEHEADING, Pale fire and Ada kept coming
into
my head. I have searched the archives and just found a mention to
Sanders
as DeWitt, the theatre critic in Eva. Even that name sounds a bit
nabokovian (too obvious perhaps).
The biography of Mr Sanders in itself a novel till his death (suicide)
in
a small seaside spanish hotel back in 1972.
Dr. José J. Bermúdez
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/