Tag: Boris Karloff

October 24, 2015 /

“The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming.” Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff in “The Bride of Frankenstein”

October 24, 2015 /

“Hollywood is just too marvelous. One feels the footprints of all the immortals are here, but has a terrible feeling that they are in sand and won’t last when civilization comes this way.” James Whale

Production Design: Charles D. Hall, Direction: James Whale

September 18, 2015 /

Boris Karloff, “The monster was the best friend I ever had.” Portrait by Yousuf Karsh

January 24, 2015 /

Veronica Lake as Peter Pan

Veronica Lake took Peter Pan on the road in 1950, starring in productions across the country, “If I had stayed in Hollywood I would have ended up like Alan Ladd and Gail Russell – dead and buried by now. That rat race killed them and I knew it would kill…

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January 24, 2015 /

Jean Arthur as Peter Pan

At the age of 49 in 1950 Jean Arthur starred on Broadway in the role of Peter Pan with Boris Karloff playing Captain Hook. In later life Miss Arthur taught at Vassar, one of her students was Meryl Streep. “I guess I became an actress because I didn’t want to…

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October 31, 2014 /

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me Man, did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” Paradise Lost by John Milton

October 12, 2013 /

BORIS KARLOFF

Only later did I discover the classic films – on set – “The Mummy”: –

October 12, 2013 /

THE INESTIMABLE – BORIS KARLOFF

I remember Mr. Karloff as the voice that narrated while the orchestra played “Peter and the Wolf”, and read “The Ugly Duckling” on an old vinyl platter that my brother and sisters had played until it was crackly – but still magical – by the time I got my hands…

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January 5, 2013 /

THE STARS BAT A THOUSAND

In the 1930s and 40s there was an annual event to raise money for Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Wrigley Field played host to participants, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper, Groucho Marx, Milton Berle, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton… The list goes on and on with appearances…

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