Welcome back to Boris Karloff month! After Frankenstein, possibly the greatest triumph of Karloff's career was his stage role in "Arsenic and Old Lace", where he famously lampooned himself by playing a killer whose face was altered to look like Boris Karloff! Unfortunately, he wasn't permitted to play the character in the film version (although Raymond Massey did a great job in his role) but thanks to the many radio adaptations of the play, we still have an idea of how great he was in the part. The Screen Guild Theater presented "Arsenic and Old Lace" on November 25, 1946. You can hear it at archive.org by clicking here!
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