Boris Karloff
Born | November 23, 1887 |
Hometown | Dulwich, United Kingdom |
Height | 5'11" (1.81m) |
Spouse | Evelyn Hope Helmore (m 1946 - 1969) , Olive de Wilton (m 1916 - 1919) , Olive de Wilton (m 1915 - 1919) , Evelyn Hope (m 1946 - 1966) , Dorothy Stine (m 1930 - 1946) , Helene Vivian Soule (m 1924 - 1928) , Montana Laurena Williams (m 1920 - 1922) , Grace Harding (m 1910 - 1913) |
Children | Sara Karloff |
Parents | Edward John Pratt, Jr. , Eliza Sarah Millard |
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Cucumber sandwiches, Cary Grant and pitch-side glamour: Remembering the Hollywood Cricket Club
- FEATURES: Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff and David Niven could be found in LA sporting cricket whites. Leonie Cooper raises a gin and tonic to the movie industry’s most English sporting team
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Want horror for Halloween? Critics pick music, books, games and more to help
Want horror for Halloween? Critics pick music, books, games and more to help. From a creepy Hollywood comedy to trick or treat for gamers, Guardian critics suggest their cultural classics
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The joy of friend-dropping, my take on Trump’s Covid and what I’ve learned about plastic surgery
It’s a funny thing when your friends find that someone special: every so often, they aren’t so much “special” as “having all the poise and charm of damp grey towel”. Everyone surely knows one couple (at least) where it’s happened. An impossibly glamorous, fascinating friend marries Boris Karloff with a charisma bypass. I suspect many old pals of Meghan feel a bit like this about Prince Harry — they signed up to spend hours gossiping and partying with this dazzling actress, and now they have to s
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Nepotism, morphine and secret homoeroticism: The bizarre history of Universal’s movie monsters
There’s nothing new under the sun, especially not in Hollywood. The recent wave of reboots, remakes and revivals seems to show no sign of stopping. The Invisible Man, based on HG Wells’s novel and the 1933 Universal movie starring Claude Rains, is the latest film to update an iconic property.Elisabeth Moss now plays a woman haunted by an abusive ex-boyfriend, who has become her invisible stalker – turning the monster into a symbol of toxic masculinity for the MeToo era. The original Invisible Ma
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Frankenstein's Monster and Superman costume to go on display after V&A Museum of Childhood's £13m revamp
A West End war horse will join Superman, Paddington and Peter Rabbit in the revamped V&A; Museum of Childhood.They are the among 2,000 objects that will go on show after the £13 million transformation, which will see the building in Bethnal Green close its doors in May for two years.
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The Grinch review – sweet return of the Christmas killjoy
“An adorable remake”: The Grinch. Photograph: Illumination and Universal Pictures/AP
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The Grinch review – an unwanted Christmas gift
Now comes another animation, which takes the book’s message that you can’t buy Christmas and tops it up with noisy, wacky capering, squishing and flattening Seuss’s universe into yet another bland frenetic kids’ movie. Benedict Cumberbatch with an American accent does a decent job voicing the Grinch, who lives on a mountain high above the gingerbread-pretty town of Whovillle, where festive goodwill is spreading like an epidemic. Like that other noted Christmas-hater, Scrooge, there’s an explan
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'Mummy' film poster, expected to fetch record, fails to sell at auction
A rare, original poster from the Boris Karloff horror classic “The Mummy” that was predicted to set a record price for a film poster at auction went unsold on Wednesday when no one bid the $950,000 (£744,000) minimum in the online sale. Sotheby's had predicted that the work, one of only three known surviving examples of the original lithographic poster from the 1932 film, would fetch up to $1.5 million. "Unfortunately, the work did not find a buyer in our online auction that concluded today, b
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The Mummy: the story of the world's most expensive movie poster
Auction house Sotheby’s is currently accepting bids for one of three remaining original posters of 1932’s The Mummy. It is expected to sell for somewhere between $1-1.5m, making it the world’s most expensive movie poster. Sam Sarowitz, author of Translating Hollywood: The World of Movie Posters and owner of Posteritati, a high-end boutique of original posters in Lower Manhattan, is excited.
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Rare 1932 'The Mummy' film poster poised to hit record $1 million at auction
A rare, original poster from the Boris Karloff horror classic, "The Mummy," is expected to sell for over $1 million, a record price for a film poster, Sotheby's said on Thursday. One of only three known surviving examples of the original lithographic poster from the 1932 film, the piece set a film poster record more than 20 years ago when it fetched $453,500. The auction house expects it to sell for $1 million to $1.5 million, breaking the auction record for a film poster of $525,800 set in 20
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