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- Lowell Thomas filmed Major T.E. Lawrence and his Arab army fighting the Ottoman Turks in the deserts of Palestine in early 1917 during WWI. It was he who coined the phrase "Lawrence of Arabia"' and with his film and the following publicity made Lawrence perhaps the greatest legend of the Twentieth Century.
Lawrence and the Arabs were betrayed by European imperial politics of the day, the consequences of which we still endure to this day at great expense and continuing unspeakable human suffering in the Middle East. Lowell Thomas was there to film the beginning and the middle. But not the end.
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- As a boy, his Sunday school teacher was future actress and 1920's nightclub queen Texas Guinan.
- He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 1752 Vine Street and for Motion Pictures at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- In the major motion Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Arthur Kennedy's portrayal of Newspaper Reporter & Film Maker, Jackson Bentley is a fictionalized name for Mr. Lowell Thomas; who both "discovered" T.E. Lawrence, coined the phrase 'Lawrence of Arabia' and made his exploits known to the world in his book and film, With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia (1919).
- In the major motion Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Arthur Kennedy's portrayal of Newspaper Reporter & Film Maker, Jackson Bentley is a fictionalized name for Mr. Lowell Thomas; who both "discovered" T.E. Lawrence, coined the phrase 'Lawrence of Arabia' and made his exploits known to the world in his book and film, With Lawrence in Arabia (1919).
- He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
- I have four offices, and I try to stay away from all of them as much as I can.
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