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When Universal Pictures tapped stage veteran James Whale to direct a film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein in 1931, he needed to find the perfect monster. The right actor obviously had to look frightening, but that wouldn’t be enough. There needed to be a touch of humanity underneath the walking patchwork of corpses.
Boris Karloff rose to the challenge by playing the unloved creature with both tenderness and menace. A box office smash,
Frankenstein made Karloff a superstar, especially within the horror genre. Here are 13 things you should know about the screen legend.
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My New Orleans
02/10/2021
METAIRIE, La (press release) – Jefferson Performing Arts Society brings its third production of the new year to the Jefferson Performing Arts Center with the timeless 1940s dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace from Feb. 26-March 7, 2021.
The popular play by Joseph Kesselring was originally staged on Broadway before becoming the classic film directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant as drama critic Mortimer Brewster. This fast-paced farce features homicidal maniacs that all hail from the same family, including a serial killer brother on the lam and two sweet aunts who have been poisoning their boardinghouse residents for years. Then there’s the uncle who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt!
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