Welcome back to Boris Karloff month! Today I'm looking at a particular oddity in Karloff's career: The Royal Desserts Hour from May 5, 1938. This was a comedy/variety program hosted by Rudy Vallee with various skits, music and dramatic segments. Frankly, it's not very good material--the comedy segments creak in a particularly bad way. However, this episode features a brief horror story written by Arch Oboler (of Lights Out) entitled "Danse Macabre" starring Karloff! A man in a cemetery is visited by a violinist who summons the dead to awaken! You can hear it at Youtube by clicking here (starts at 42:30)!
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