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George Sanders was cinema s great poet of dry cynicism – and never better than in Voyage to Italy Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. began his suicide note. In this classic 1954 film, he reveals his cosmic self-contempt
George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman filming Voyage to Italy in 1953
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One day I’ll make a pilgrimage to the Hotel Rey Don Jaime in Castelldefels, 10 miles south of Barcelona, where George Sanders committed suicide in 1972. (“Dear World,” he characteristically wrote in his over-egged note for the police, “I am leaving because I am bored… I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool…”) Meanwhile, there’s always the Hotel Excelsior, in Naples, where Sanders, and Ingrid Bergman, made Journey to Italy in 1954. “What noisy people,” says Sanders’ Alexander Joyce of the Italians, with amused irritation, or irritated amusement. “I’ve never seen noise and boredom go so well together.”