Birthday: 28 April 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name: Lionel Herbert Blythe
Height: 180 cm
Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Hor...
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Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon", "Fugue Fantasia", "In Memorium", "Hallowe'en", "Preludium & Fugue", "Elegie for Oboe, Orch.", "Farewell Symphony (1-act opera)", "Elegie (piano pieces)", "Rondo for Piano" and "Scherzo Grotesque". Show less «
I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed. Why, the fact that he...Show more »
I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed. Why, the fact that he was an actor made everything he said open to question, because acting was thought to be a vocation embraced exclusively by scatter-brains, wastrels and scamps. I don't believed that's true today and I don't think that it ever was. Show less «
[on how he intends to perform his role in 'Arsene Lupin'] Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, l...Show more »
[on how he intends to perform his role in 'Arsene Lupin'] Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, limp a little bit. Show less «
I've got a lot of ham in me.
I've got a lot of ham in me.
L.B. [Louis B. Mayer] gets me $400 worth of cocaine a day to ease my pain. I don't know where he get...Show more »
L.B. [Louis B. Mayer] gets me $400 worth of cocaine a day to ease my pain. I don't know where he gets it. And I don't care. But I bless him every time it puts me to sleep. Show less «
[1943 comment on Margaret O'Brien] If that child had been born in the middle ages, she'd have been b...Show more »
[1943 comment on Margaret O'Brien] If that child had been born in the middle ages, she'd have been burned as a witch. Show less «
You can't retire in Hollywood. Nobody gives up a job, even if he's ninety, or sick, or has money lik...Show more »
You can't retire in Hollywood. Nobody gives up a job, even if he's ninety, or sick, or has money like Midas. Everybody works until his last breath, and when one day they die, they die like Napoleon/s grenadiers, who died with the words "Vive l'Empereur!" Just so, the last words of a director or producer are "Make another take!" Show less «
Don't ever forget that acting is the greatest profession ever invented. When you act, you move milli...Show more »
Don't ever forget that acting is the greatest profession ever invented. When you act, you move millions of people, shape their lives, give them a sense of exaltation. No other profession has that power. Show less «
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century...Show more »
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. Show less «
