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@TheCinesthetic Burt also broked the 4th…he ‘smoked’ it!

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Boris Karloff’s secret

Boris Karloff in 1934. For all of his life, Karloff concealed a secret that could have destroyed him professionally and personally. Born William Henry Pratt in London, Karloff was not the dapper, middle class Englishman the public supposed him to be, but bi-racial; of Indian descent on both sides of his family. His father, Edward John Pratt, worked for the Indian Salt Revenue Service, telling no one that his mother was a native from Bombay. Pratt’s wife was also of South Asian ancestry. The young William possessed a complexion that was noticeably darker than that of his peers, which led to his being bullied at school. (After he became famous, the actor would pass off his skin as the result of an excessive California sun tan.) Pratt spent time in Canada as a manual labourer before moving to America in the hope of getting film acting jobs, and his looks led him to be typecast as ethnics - he was routinely called on to appear as Arabs, East Indians, and Native Americans. Around this time, he changed his name to “Boris Karloff”, after allegedly reading a novel about a man with that name, though no such book has ever been identified. It has been suggested that he did it to save his family from “embarrassment", and to obscure his non-white ancestry during an era of systemic prejudice in the film industry. When Karloff, who had eyes like a lovesick Satan, was cast as Frankenstein’s “monster”, the makeup he was required to wear made his skin tone immaterial, but he suffered in other ways. In 1931, there was no union protecting actors’ welfare (Karloff helped to found SAG two years later.) Already in pain from a bad back due to the heavy labour he had done, his torment became worse when director James Whale mistreated and overworked him, causing his back to nearly break. Karloff’s feelings as an outsider may have improved his ability to play monsters, but they also helped cause the dysfunctional nature of many of his closest relationships. He married six times, having a daughter, Sara, with his second wife. After they divorced, he chose to cut Sara out of his life, and she only became aware of his death when she heard it on the news. Often kindly and charitable, not everyone found him charming. A female colleague remarked, “He was as cold as ice and would just cut you off. I thought he was a complete s….t.”

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@For_Film_Fans American golfer Doug Sanders got it bad..!

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@PetronellaWyatt I always liked the scene where Boris frightened himself in Bogdanovich’s 1st feature ‘Targets’

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@GAltringham Eyes Without a Face…

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@London_W4 Nooo..

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@For_Film_Fans Did these two giants ever act in the same movie together, I don’t think so?

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@TheGolfDivoTee With his trusty Ping Anser..

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@GolfNBS From another angle…

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@TheGolfDivoTee Exactly my thoughts, I never bothered watching him on the greens yesterday, just enjoyed his booming high draw drive uphill, well over the 305 yard bunker on the 3rd.. unreal.

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@DPWorldTour Another view of this shot…

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@JonathanYarwood @TrackmanGolf Yesterday Rory hit a booming looping draw on the 3rd at Wentworth, well over the right hand bunkers at 305 yards uphill..

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@rory_fans Here is a little Rory action, thunderous drive up number 3, way past the bunkers on the right..but could not buy a putt all day..

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@jamierkennedy Very enjoyable day, but Rory could not buy a putt ..however his drive on the 3rd was awesome, a looping draw, way past the bunkers on the right.

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@nickfshort ‘No, well, I don't, um, really care for these American shopping methods. One has to move with the times, I suppose, hmm?"

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@For_Film_Fans Wonderful stuff, a rare London Tory MP, a Nun pleasuring herself and a sight of a logo pinched by Apple..

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@TheGolfDivoTee Great photo; never seen this before..!

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@bbctms @HomeOfCricket @AlisonMitchell @MichaelVaughan @philtufnell Can anyone explain the shortness of the boundary at Lord’s, this was yesterday.

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@PictureSporting Love those old Coke cans..

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@FerzMitKrigge @JustRockContent Thank you, very interesting clip and loved the song!