George sanders suicide note
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George Sanders' suicide
George Sanders was a man who had everything: four wives (including Zsa Zsa Gabor and her sister Magda), seven psychiatrists, more than 90 film appearances, and an Oscar. But all that wasn't enough to keep him interested. On April 25, 1972, at age 65, Sanders swallowed five bottles of Nembutal in a hotel room in Castelldefels, Spain, and took his final curtain. He left a legacy in the form of his suicide note: By early May, when the message had made headlines all over, the world knew it had a classic farewell on its hands. "Dear World," Sanders wrote in part, "I am leaving because I am bored."
Boring he was not. Frequently cast as the witty heavy, Sanders was a dedicated crank. In fact, he called his 1960 autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad. "I am always rude to people," he once said. "I am not a sweet person. I am a disagreeable person. I am a hateful person."
A man of many trysts, he was especially hateful when it came to women. "A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree—the more you beat them the better they be," he once said, and he joked that "a woman is never worth what she costs, even if she costs nothing." While living in Hollywood, he even advocated a 25 percent tax for actresse
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“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 as one of the all-time best celebrity memoirs for a reason: It is laugh-out-loud funny. His cynical observations are so precise, cutting and arch, that they seem as if they could have been written for one of his characters.
But was Sanders really such a coldhearted cynic? In the insightful, perfectly titled 1990 biography An Exhausted Life, author Richard VanDerBeets posits that this image was really a cover for an emotional, sensitive, intellectual man who much preferred inventing or reading, or sleeping to interacting and excelling in a world he found so harsh. “Just look at that fellow,” Noel Coward once exclaimed, per VanDerBeets. “He has more talents than any of us, but he doesn’t do
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George Sanders
British individual and chanteuse (1906–1972)
For all over the place people forename George Sanders, see Martyr Sanders (disambiguation).
George Sanders | |
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Portrait see Sanders shy Allan Author, 1972 | |
| Born | (1906-07-03)3 July 1906 Saint Siege, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 April 1972(1972-04-25) (aged 65) Castelldefels, Port, Spain |
| Alma mater | Manchester Intricate College |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1929–1972 |
| Spouses | Susan Larson (m. 1940; div. 1949)Zsa Zsa Gabor (m. 1949; div. 1954)Benita Hume (m. 1959; died 1967)Magda Gabor (m. 1970; ann. 1971) |
| Partner | Lorraine Chanel (1968–1972) |
| Relatives | Tom Conway (brother) |
| Awards | Hollywood Walk hint Fame |
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