From Joe Comer: The story is that Boris was so ill at the time of this show that he rested off-stage in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank. But when it came time for him to go on he would arise from that chair as though he was 40 years younger and give a great show!!!
That's true of nearly everything Boris was in for the last five eyars or so of his life. But with his back and arthritis trouble, and emphysema and with only half a lung, he still managed like the trooper he was!
@@tracyyork1428Vincent Price was on good terms with everybody, he was an absolute darling and Boris Karloff was a wonderful gentle and kind man. Irreplaceable people.
This is such a refreshing change. To see these great horror movie icons being light-hearted and funny. I never knew Boris Karloff and Vincent Price were on Red Skelton's show. I like the skit. God bless and rest in peace to all of them. ❤❤❤
Two of the classiest and greatest actors of all time. I missed t these two.Boris Karloff died a year before I was born. I was still too young to appreciate the greatness of Vincent Price when he passed away. I wish i could turn back the clock.
Karloff's accent is lengendary! Every actor or comedian has tried to reproduce that voice (with varying degrees of success). I remembered seeing this live as a kid and the only sad part was, it was at the end of a wonderful episode.
The guy singing The Monster Mash did a pretty decent job as I recall. I have also seen Jim Carrey do a good Karloff impression in an interview where he’s talking about The Grinch.
I can say that Robert would probably do it. He's such a wonderful gentleman, quite like both those esteemed monsters. I've met him. My sister was lucky enough to meet Vincent Price in the 1970s and said he was a delightful gentleman.
I had the good fortune to meet Vincent Price when he came to my college campus. I gave him a tour of the town and talked to him about "Master of the World," my favorite movie of his.
I also met him at a Subway Commercial shooting In Milwaukee Wisconsin back in the late 80's. I actually got to sit down and talk with him. We talked about cooking and Art and of course his GREAT Movies! The Dr. Fibes movies are my Favs!... I had a copy of one of his cook books and brought it with me to have him sign it. It's one of my ALL TIME Treasured Possessions! What's REALLY Weird is... the night he died... I had a dream about him. We were sitting and talking but NOT in a Subway Sub shop but what looked to be what I assumed was his home. The very next morning when I woke up and turned on the Radio... they announced that "The GREAT Vincent Price had passed away!" I went to work very saddened... but I also felt like.. for SOME REASON... He and I connected that night in my dream! He will ALWAYS BE One of my ALL TIME FAVS! He was a MASTER At his Craft! Too bad they didn't have those "MASTER CLASSES" Back then because I SURELY WOULD HAVE Attended his! Boris too! ANOTHER One of my ALL TIME FAVS!!! :D Rest in Peace Both of you. You Inspired me to create my OWN "MONSTERS"! :D
I met Vincent Price while he was on a lecture tour in Greensboro, NC. I was about 14 years old and went with my dad.This was right around the time he did the narration for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. The name of the lecture was “The Villain Still Pursues Me” and he talked about his amazing life and career for about two hours, only taking a drink of water several times throughout. He spoke very warmly about Boris Karloff and also joked around about his newfound popularity with “Thriller”. Upon leaving, we saw a limo parked at the backstage door and thought we’d wait around a few minutes in the hope of catching Mr.Price as he left. Sure enough, after about five minutes the legend of horror came striding out of the back of the theatre in a black overcoat and approached me first! Very tall, striking fellow and it was like a scene out of one of his films. He spoke first and all I could do was cordially greet him and shake his hand. It was the first famous person I’d ever met and I was a little bit starstruck. What a warm, gracious person he was. He took a moment to chat with a few others who had gathered there. My dad asked him where he was headed now and he said “Going to New York”. Sure enough, a few days later we saw him featured on some sort of all star tribute to Broadway.
Me too. At my college campus while he toured with Delights and Diversions. A lovely, funny and warm man. I sent him roses;) He signed books for me and Forry Ackerman sent him the review I did on the show for one of the newspapers. What a memory
Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Bela Lugosi, or as I call them, the Holy Quintet, were such interesting men. They all lived up to their name, and were so comical and intelligent.
Boris Karloff: My distant cousin (real name, William Pratt, from my maternal grandmother's family). Yes, I know about the familial resemblance -- especially with Frankenstein's monster and the Mummy. 😉
This is the greatest sketch I've ever seen! I needed this in my life right now! Thanks for sharing! OMFG now I'm sharing this with just every ghoul I know!
This is amazing. I wasn’t alive when this was first aired, so thank you so much for posting this. I wouldn’t have ever seen it. It’s a delight to watch while stuck in quarantine. ☠️
Wow....this is so so sweet. I love it. Vincent Price was, is, among my heroes. Oh, by the way, I met Mr. Price at the former Buena Park Wax Museum in 1982.
Dear Vinny, stop trying to kid us that you were the Fly. Any true Vincent Price fan knows you were NOT. You were the grieving brother / uncle of the fly 1 and 2.
you think boris karloff is that nice guy you see singing and dancing on the red skelton show? you aught to see him when he's the frankenstein monster. that's the REAL boris karloff!
First time I've seen this. Wow. Vincent used to scare the crap out of me in the Dr Phibes movies. A master of horror. And...of course...Boris Karloff. If anyone deseves the title of "legend" it was he.
I sure do! I went ahead and uploaded the comedy sketch featuring Karloff and Price. And if you want to see the episode in full and have Amazon Prime, it's actually on Prime Video atm.
And to think… he had emphysema and when he went off stage during this special, he had an oxygen tank at the ready. What a trooper. :) BTW, Vincent wasn’t Andre Delambre/The fly - that was Al Hedison. He played his brother trying to solve the mystery in the movie.
I wonder how Boris would’ve reached to Christopher Sanders’s narration of the horror grinch film? I’d say Karloff would be quite impressed of how Sanders sounded very close to him!
It was - recorded while he was shooting his scenes in his final 4 films (the Mexican co-productions). Then, after a couple months off, he appeared on "The Jonathan Winters Show" and went home to England, where he developed (I believe) bronchitis, and his passing was not long behind. Sadly, the Winters Show is thought lost, so this appearance on Skelton was his last to air in his lifetime.
According to The "Biography"tv tribute to Boris..he was in England..appearing on"The Name Of The Game"TV show with Gene Barry..which was Boris' last performance..after that..he became ill with pneumonia and he was hospitalized..until he..he(Crying)sadly left us on Sunday February 2,1969. 51 years ago.
@@DrDespicable Just before he returned to England for the last time, Karloff was interviewed by Bob Wilkins, host of San Francisco's "Creature Features". I believe the interview aired about two weeks before Karloff's death. It has not thus far been recorded in Karloff's IMDb profile, but it appears to have been his last televised appearance in his lifetime.
