Hollywood Studio Magazine (November 1967)

tables Karloff donned the scientists white smock and started on an orge of transplanting heads, hearts, hands, and anything else that wasn’t nailed down on the operating table of his movie lab. Karloff was a body snatcher in a movie of the same name, became a mummy, and brought down the wrath of the ancient Pharaohs on his victims in “The Mum¬ my.” Then he tried pushing dope, making Jackie Cooper his pawn in “Young Donovan’s Kid,” switched to a part as “The Man They Could Not Hang,” and became an evil warden in “Bedlam.” Later he simply frightened people to death in “The Walking Dead.” Through it all Karloff retained his cool, but millions in theatres all over the globe lost theirs. Has he regreted being the most frightening man in Hollywood all these years? Hardly. Recently Karloff told a reporter: “I’ve always been a happy monster. Thanks to the monster, I’ve worked steadily at the work I love best. And I’ve been well paid - in more ways than with money.” Kind, gentle and good mannered, Boris Karloff carved for himself a place in the hearts of all the world — everybody loves a monster — especially a good one. And Boris bless his soul has been the best. THE END 21