Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
George Arliss's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
The Successful Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. The birth-card coordinate for April 10 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1931 Best Actor — Disraeli win.
Academy Award record
- 1931 Best Actor — Disraeli
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
George Arliss's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on George Arliss. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
George Arliss in the public record
He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won in the Best Actor category for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor of any category to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932). His career ranged from being a star of the legitimate theatre, then silent films, then sound films. Arliss was born in London, and commonly listed as George Augustus Andrews. His relatives referred to him as Uncle Gus. He started work in the publishing office of his father, William Joseph Arliss Andrews, but left at age 18 to go on the stage. His brother Fred Andrews studied art, and is known for his work with Sir Aurel Stein. His sister, Anita Arliss, taught acting in Los Angeles.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article George Arliss (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about George Arliss, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in George Arliss's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 2♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Skeptical Partner
- K♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Master Leader
- 6♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Responsible Mind
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Pioneer
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Ability to inspire financial awakening
He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: millionaire.
Also on the record
- Arliss began his theatre career in the British provinces in 1887 and by 1900 was playing London's West End in supporting roles.
- He embarked for a tour of America in 1901 in Mrs.
- Patrick Campbell's troupe, intending to remain in the United States only for the length of the tour.
- Arliss stayed for twenty years, making his Broadway debut in Magda (1902).
Other winners with this card
- Liza Minnelli — 1973 Best Actress — Cabaret
FAQ
- What is George Arliss's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. April 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do George Arliss's dates come from?
- Birth date 1868-04-10 is the day-precision date on George Arliss's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, George Arliss) + Wikidata CC0 (Q182229). Birth date 1868-04-10 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).