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Boris Karloff

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Boris Karloff

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Auction Date:2013 Apr 25 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
DS, one page, 8.5 x 11, October 19, 1931. Karloff agrees to render to Fox Films Corporation “services, as an actor, at a salary of One Hundred Fifty ($150.00) Dollars per day—Three (3) days guarantee.” Signed at the conclusion by Karloff and casting director J. E. Gardner. In fine condition. The filming for Frankenstein had finished just two weeks earlier, on October 3, and the movie would go on to premier in November. This loan-out was a result of Universal’s uncertainty about the success of Frankenstein—they thought Dracula (released earlier in 1931) might have been a fluke, and so loaned Karloff to Fox for their filming of Business and Pleasure as an unbilled member of the supporting cast. Like Dracula, Frankenstein became wildly successful, and the American horror genre was born.