Karloff...a True Gentleman to his last day...So rare now...Thank You for endless hours of joy and entertainment, Boris. And his Wife for supporting him too👨🏻🙏🏻
Blimey ! What a wonderfully heartwarming video ! The late Mrs Karloff certainly comes across as a very sweet, charming & warm lady ! I can easily understand Boris falling in love with her ! How wonderful they had such a long & happy marriage ! THANK YOU so much for sharing this with us ! CHEERS !! :-)
I'm glad that you enjoyed this video, she was a lovely lady, Sara Karloff asked me not to upload this saying that they were both very 'private people' but I felt that the Karloff fans could not be deprived of this!
@@mackenzierough Greatly appreciate your reply to my recent comment. I don't think Mr Karloff's widow would have minded you posting the interview online. After all, she consented to the original interview & must have known it would be shown on TV at least. Years ago I had left a sort of "fan" email at Sara Karloff's website & she responded with a very kind reply, confirming that her late dad was a kind, gentle man & a devoted, loving father. Like the widow Karloff, Boris' daughter seems like a very sweet, kind & friendly lady ! Thank you again for all your efforts ! Warmest wishes from Calif !! :-)
Boris had five wives before Evie, Evie being the sixth and last wife. I wonder what his previous five wives thought of Boris. He was married for an average of three years to each wife before Evie.
Boris Karloff was a great actor and deserves the tributes and all the honors that he received. It's sad that Bela Lugosi didn't get the same well deserved treatment as was given to Boris. Bela Lugosi died a broken man that was forgotten by Hollywood.
It is sad but Bela was taken down by his ego. Where Boris would take such a part as the Monster and Bela wouldn't even consider it is a prime example. Don't get me wrong I really feel for Bela
Yes, I know about this quite intimately. I was supposed to be heavily involved, as my first book on Boris had just been published. Evie was my friend during the last 12 years of her life. I currently am writing the THIRD volume, "THE 'EASTERN' FILMS OF BORIS KARLOFF."
Wow it is back up Again , thanks for uploading this did not think i was ever going to see it !!!! This would be a good extra on any Karloff bluray or DVD, thanks again.
Boris' appearance on This is Your Life is truly wonderful, despite the playful ribbing his wife took from him at the beginning and end of the episode. Of the relatively few TIYL episodes I've seen, the one with Boris is probably my favorite (it's a close tie with the Laurel & Hardy one, I'll admit!), he just seemed so pleasantly surprised by the guests and seemed to genuinely enjoy himself. It's very entertaining, if any of you get the chance to see it!
When asked if he was tired of people always associating him with Frankenstein, Boris said "my goodness no, I owe my whole career to the old boy". Boris knew he might never had been a star without Frankenstein.
I, for one, did not know anything about Mr. Karloff other than what I learned from Famous Monsters Of Film Land. This was very enlightening! It was a very beautiful story of the Man's humanity. Thank you.
Thank you for making it possible to see this footage. She was a very eloquent woman, and this is very informative. (One suggestion Mackenzie; Freudian or not, you might like to check some of your spelling)
Irene, I reckon it was her who got it wrong. Boris lost his parents around 5 or 6. She probably got confused. His upbringing was confusing. And she got confused about how many siblings he had as well.
@@irened. - I wouldn't go as far as to say that. I liked the look of his wife before her Dorothy, Sara's mother. I wonder if she really did end up with Evie's husband?
I've just noticed a small error : at 3:15, it is not Karloff in the monster make-up but Gil Perkins, Lugosi's stunt-double in "Frankenstein meets the Wolf-man".
That was a great movie and it's my favorite of all the old horror movies next to A and C meet Frankenstein which was really great and I just learned that when GS was doing the monster, he tripped on a wire and broke his ankle and Boris had to take his place to finish the movie
@anthony magnoni. I remember reading somewhere that Eddie Parker donned the Frankenstein monster makeup for the distant shots of the Wolfman and the monster fighting each other at the conclusion of "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman"(1943). But perhaps that writer made an error and it may have been Gil Perkins who played the monster in the long shots in that fight scene in that film.
It's divided. It's thought that Gil Perkins and Eddie Parker divided Bela's Frankenstein monster stunt work. That still really looks like Eddie Parker to me.
Certainly a wonderful interview with an interesting and well spoken interview subject. Check RU-vid. I believe they have run a television production of THE LARK with Karloff and Julie Harris (a wonderful actress), and a marvelous biography of Rasputin, played superbly by Karloff.
How lovely. Personally, I can't bring myself to watch Frankenstein, despite how wonderful his performance was. I can't watch the National Theatre performance by Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch did either. I have too much sympathy for the 'monster', but I am convinced that Boris's performance is the one that all future actors look to. It was HUMAN, with all the nuance that brings. A wonderful job. He was a wonderful artist and one of my favourites is Colonel March, because it still allows his humour.