Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

In 1966, he produced and directed the TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas !, featuring the voice and facial models based on the readings by Boris Karloff.

The film starred Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings and Boris Karloff.

The film starred Paul Muni in the title role, with memorable supporting performances from George Raft, Boris Karloff, and Osgood Perkins.

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monsterin Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 )

With the progression of the genre actors were beginning to build entire careers in such films, most especially Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

This version, written by Stewart Stern, uses the encounter between Marlow ( Roddy McDowall ) and Kurtz ( Boris Karloff ) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son.

Casting the familiar Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Mae Clarke as his fiancée Elizabeth, Whale turned to an unknown actor named Boris Karloff to play the Monster.

Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).

Boris Karloff: A Bio-bibliography.

In the West, Meher Baba met with a number of celebrities and artists, including Hollywood notables Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff, Tom Mix, Maurice Chevalier, Ernst Lubitsch and others.

Although Baba had initially begun gaining public attention in the West as early as 1932 as the result of contacts with some celebrities of the time ( such as Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff and others ) and from the rather disillusioned account of Paul Brunton ( A Search in Secret India, 1934 ), he achieved additional attention over three decades later through the work of Pete Townshend of The Who.

* 1887 – Boris Karloff, British actor ( d. 1969 )

* Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and another in 1941, starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone.

* February 2 – Boris Karloff, English actor ( b. 1887 )

* December 18 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, is shown for the first time on CBS, becoming an annual Christmas tradition.

* November 23 – Boris Karloff, English actor ( d. 1969 )

He worked with Corman on Targets, which starred Boris Karloff, and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, under the pseudonym Derek Thomas.

Not knowing about their gentle nature, two 1930s movies played on the manta's " fearsome " appearance: 1930's The Sea Bat, starring a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff, and 1936's The Sea Fiend, later re-issued as the 1946 Devil Monster.

Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

One of their grandsons was the actor William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff.

The movie stars Edward G. Robinson and features H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Oscar Apfel, Aline MacMahon, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, and Boris Karloff.

To dig up dirt about Nancy, Randall assigns an unscrupulous reporter, " Reverend " T. Vernon Isopod ( Boris Karloff ), who wears a clerical collar as a device to win the confidence of the bride's parents on the eve of the wedding.

* Boris Karloff as T. Vernon Isopod

The movie stars George Arliss, Loretta Young, and Boris Karloff, in the biographical story of the rise of the Rothschild family of European bankers.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

the conflict is not Boris versus Grigori or Shuiski or even the ghost of the murdered child, but Boris versus the Russian people.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

This is especially striking between Pimen's quiet exit and Grigori's vehement outburst against Boris.

In addition, it is an important link in the plot, giving us a revealing glimpse of the people's attitude toward Boris and the false Dimitri.

The triangulation is named after Boris Delaunay for his work on this topic from 1934.

The Ediacaran Period overlaps, but is shorter than the Vendian Period, a name that was earlier, in 1952, proposed by Russian geologist and paleontologist Boris Sokolov.

The film now most commonly cited as the first " true " film noir is Stranger on the Third Floor ( 1940 ), directed by Latvian-born, Soviet-trained Boris Ingster.

* 2004 – Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* Elliot Rhodes ( Boris Conley ) is a comedian and musician, performing short musical sketches about current events at the end of Friday night episodes of Frontline.

As part of the official welcome ceremony of a foreign head of state, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is inspecting a Serbian Armed Forces | Serbian guard of honour | guard of honor escorted by President of Serbia | Serbian President Boris Tadić, on the former's visit to Serbia in 2009.

* 1992 – A " joint understanding " agreement on arms reduction is signed by U. S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ( this would be later codified in START II ).

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

* Valeria-The teenage love of Doctor Doom's life who is the granddaughter of Boris.

Perhaps the first remark that quarks should possess an additional quantum number was made as a short footnote in the preprint of Boris Struminsky in connection with Ω < sup >-</ sup > hyperon composed of three strange quarks with parallel spins ( this situation was peculiar, because since quarks are fermions, such combination is forbidden by the Pauli exclusion principle ): Boris Struminsky was a PhD student of Nikolay Bogolyubov.

TfL is controlled by a board whose members are appointed by the Mayor of London, a position held by Boris Johnson who also chairs the Board.

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He is succeeded by his son, Boris III.

** Boris Yeltsin is elected as the first ever elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

* July 3 – Boris Yeltsin is reelected as President of Russia after the second round of elections.

* August 9 – Boris Yeltsin is sworn in at the Kremlin for a second term as President of Russia.