"Up the Years from Bloomsbury: An Autobiography" is the memoir written by George Arliss, a British actor, playwright, and filmmaker – the first Brit, in fact, to win an Oscar.Born in 1868, Arliss began his career as a stage actor in London, and later made his way to Hollywood where he became one of the most famous actors of his time. The book begin in his earliest days in London's Bloomsbury district to his rise to fame in Hollywood, where he would go on to play historical figures such as Benjam...