And the Oscar Goes To... TrailerGoing Hollywood: The '30s TrailerThe Voice That Thrilled the World Trailer
George Arliss (10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929), as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour.
Total trailers found: 32
31 July 1940
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
09 February 1932
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler.
20 April 1933
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior.
13 February 1930
An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.
28 November 1940
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
27 October 1935
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
07 April 1934
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons.
01 November 1929
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
01 February 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO.
15 June 1939
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
18 April 1935
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
17 September 1932
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie.
17 January 1921
Dr. Muller, a friend to all, finds pleasure in turning the goodness in people to evil ends. He meets Marie Matin and her fiancée, Georges Roben, while viewing a new painting, "The Martyr--Truth Crucified by Evil.
16 October 1943
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857.
01 October 1922
En eminent pianist is made deaf by an anarchist's bomb during a command performance.
25 February 1933
The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.
12 September 1931
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
25 August 1937
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
01 October 1935
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
05 August 1933
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people.
12 November 1936
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
27 April 1934
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service.
21 August 1921
The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
26 August 1936
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with the wife of a notorious criminal.
12 August 1930
An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
13 August 1923
The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer.
21 July 1931
Celebrity endorsement: Stanley Baldwin introduces George Arliss playing the legendary PM.
12 April 1924
John Reeves, steel magnate, wagers with his son Chester that he can earn twenty dollars a week and live on it.
01 May 1931
A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
22 January 1922
A millionaire's health deteriorates when his doctor and family prevail upon him to retire.
