Friday, February 9, 2007

Seventy-fifth anniversary of "Frankenstein" film

From Arthur Silber's Once Upon a Time blog:

February 4, 2006

"Karloff, Gods and Monsters, and the Horrors of War

The NYT offers an interesting article about Boris Karloff, on the occasion of a film festival celebrating the 75th anniversary of "Frankenstein" and focusing on "the odd career of this unlikely star." Before Karloff and the movie that established his enduring fame fused themselves into our cultural subconscious, Karloff was only "a middle-aged, middlingly successful English character actor (born William Henry Pratt), skillful and professional enough to have appeared in dozens of pictures in the previous 15."

Read on at link.....

years."http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/movies/03karl.html?ex=1296622800&en=9db9a8fce45bd268&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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