Boris Karloff Articles
Boris Karloff, Jean Harlow Book Signings: Larry Edmunds Bookshop
Jean Harlow Boris Karloff's daughter Sara Karloff, and authors Mark Vieira and Darrell Rooney will be at Larry Edmunds Bookshop signing books later this month. Karloff will be signing copies of Stephen Jacobs' authorized Boris Karloff biography, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster. Vieira and Rooney will sign their own Harlow in Hollywood, a photo book/biography of 1930s MGM star Jean Harlow. Karloff will be [...]
BREAKING DAWN: James Whale – Ideal for Bella and Edward
Bella and Edward in love: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight Bill Condon to Direct BREAKING DAWN Bill Condon, who will be guiding Twilight Saga leads Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner in Breaking Dawn, is best known for the three feature films he directed in the last twelve years. Gods and Monsters (1998), was a fictionalized account (based on Christopher [...]
Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics DVD
"With a few exceptions," wrote Andrew Sarris in You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, "The Bride of Frankenstein represented the last gasp of the horror film as a serious genre. The creeping disease of facetiousness crippled the genre even more distressingly than it had the gangster film. The dilution of creativity proceeded apace in both genres with anachronistic wise-cracking, farcical reactions, low-brow skepticism, and 'darky' caricatures. [...]
Best Films – 1935
Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas FILM Alice Adams d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner China Seas d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness The Gay Deception d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman A Tale of Two Cities d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman The Whole Town's Talking d: John Ford; scr: [...]