With his customary verve, the film critic David Thomson, in his entry on Sanders in "A Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Knopf, 1994) imagines how DeWitt would have described Sanders' career: "Sanders had early gauged that there was a profitable, supporting life to be had in Hollywood as a gracious scoundrel: he noticed that his English drawl, provokingly good manners, and high sartorial standards were vouchsafes of insolence and bad intentions. He so practiced the sneer that eventually he required no words. He imagined his mouth was drawn down by some astringent spirit that he was on the point of swallowing -- hemlock perhaps -- and gazed skeptically at earnest heroes and condescendingly at ripe bosoms afforded by his height and so many costume films."