Evie Karloff talks about Boris 1991 Interview

I shot this footage of Evie Karloff (Boris's last wife) in 1991, we were trying to get funding to produce a 10 part documentary called "The Gentle Monster" about the life and times of Boris Karloff, although there was a lot of interest at the time we could not raise the finance to produce the series. I have just edited this as I thought that fans would be very interested seeing this unique footage.

[@princeeverlove]

Karloff...a True Gentleman to his last day...So rare now...Thank You for endless hours of joy and entertainment, Boris. And his Wife for supporting him too👨🏻🙏🏻

[@stephenvelez9710]

This is out of control beautiful. What a lovely, delightful raconteur Evie Karliff was. Thanks for posting❤️

[@mackenzierough]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, she was lovely.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Blimey ! What a wonderfully heartwarming video ! The late Mrs Karloff certainly comes across as a very sweet, charming & warm lady ! I can easily understand Boris falling in love with her ! How wonderful they had such a long & happy marriage ! THANK YOU so much for sharing this with us ! CHEERS !! :-)

[@mackenzierough]

I'm glad that you enjoyed this video, she was a lovely lady, Sara Karloff asked me not to upload this saying that they were both very 'private people' but I felt that the Karloff fans could not be deprived of this!

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@mackenzierough Greatly appreciate your reply to my recent comment. I don't think Mr Karloff's widow would have minded you posting the interview online. After all, she consented to the original interview & must have known it would be shown on TV at least. Years ago I had left a sort of "fan" email at Sara Karloff's website & she responded with a very kind reply, confirming that her late dad was a kind, gentle man & a devoted, loving father. Like the widow Karloff, Boris' daughter seems like a very sweet, kind & friendly lady ! Thank you again for all your efforts ! Warmest wishes from Calif !! :-)

[@garycarpenter2980]

They must've had a great long time together

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@garycarpenter2980 I heartily concur !! :-)

[@garycarpenter2980]

You are very welcome dear sir

[@gailjacquelinemrsgray.2518]

A marvellous video and Evie is a wonderful wife, i am pleased Sir Christopher lee loved Evie and Boris.

[@jackanthony976]

Boris had five wives before Evie, Evie being the sixth and last wife. I wonder what his previous five wives thought of Boris. He was married for an average of three years to each wife before Evie.

[@1959blantz]

Boris Karloff was a great actor and deserves the tributes and all the honors that he received. It's sad that Bela Lugosi didn't get the same well deserved treatment as was given to Boris. Bela Lugosi died a broken man that was forgotten by Hollywood.

[@gwenking7700]

It is sad but Bela was taken down by his ego. Where Boris would take such a part as the Monster and Bela wouldn't even consider it is a prime example. Don't get me wrong I really feel for Bela

[@brianmcgeever6370]

At least Ed Wood gave him some career when Hollywood turned it's back on him cheers 🍻

[@MT-ez3rc]

Thanks for this. Very informative.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Amen to that !

[@johben57]

Wow it is back up Again , thanks for uploading this did not think i was ever going to see it !!!! This would be a good extra on any Karloff bluray or DVD, thanks again.

[@anthonymagnoni]

Thank you so much for sharing this video. As a huge Karloff fan, I would love to make a documentary about him one day.

[@mackenzierough]

I'm so glad that you enjoyed this, hope you get to make your documentary one day.

[@garycarpenter2980]

That sounds great and use some of the history of early horror movies

[@rickmontgomery3037]

Boris' appearance on This is Your Life is truly wonderful, despite the playful ribbing his wife took from him at the beginning and end of the episode. Of the relatively few TIYL episodes I've seen, the one with Boris is probably my favorite (it's a close tie with the Laurel & Hardy one, I'll admit!), he just seemed so pleasantly surprised by the guests and seemed to genuinely enjoy himself. It's very entertaining, if any of you get the chance to see it!

[@erikramaekers63]

She did a lot of things after he died that he would have liked.Wonderful woman.

[@scottnollen3722]

Yes, I know about this quite intimately. I was supposed to be heavily involved, as my first book on Boris had just been published. Evie was my friend during the last 12 years of her life. I currently am writing the THIRD volume, "THE 'EASTERN' FILMS OF BORIS KARLOFF."

[@madkittyjoey70]

Would love to read it!

[@garycarpenter2980]

I'd would love to read that book sometime

[@dangeroreilly2028]

OMG, Scott Nollen died August 2021!

[@firetopman]

This is a man who played a monster but is much revered for it. That's skill and genius. He is beloved by the Boomers, for sure.

[@priestessthea]

@firetopman : Boris is “Universally” loved, not just by a particular rudely labeled age group.

[@firetopman]

@@priestessthea Go ask a millennial or Gen X if they know who Boris Karloff is.

[@priestessthea]

@@firetopman My point exactly.

[@ianmeadows8719]

He wasn't a monster

[@julianhermanubis6800]

​​@@firetopmanI'm Gen X, and I know Karloff's work very well. It was on TV a lot when I was a kid. Many of my friends know him also.

[@rjwalker4153]

When asked if he was tired of people always associating him with Frankenstein, Boris said "my goodness no, I owe my whole career to the old boy". Boris knew he might never had been a star without Frankenstein.

[@randyacuna3248]

Boris always said the monster was his best friend. I own everything to him .

[@denniscummings7658]

Awesome!

[@richardweddle3408]

Thank you for posting this. I love watching her and hearing her speak. If I were wealthy you would have had your funding in between heartbeats.

[@mackenzierough]

Thank you for this, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

[@mstrsims2]

love the picture of ON BORROWED TIME with Belulah Bondi and Margaret Hamilton

[@billhuseth5955]

Wonderful interview!

[@mackenzierough]

Thank you,

[@garycarpenter2980]

Yes it was

[@mikeprell2747]

I, for one, did not know anything about Mr. Karloff other than what I learned from Famous Monsters Of Film Land. This was very enlightening! It was a very beautiful story of the Man's humanity. Thank you.

[@mackenzierough]

Mike, I'm so glad that you enjoyed my video.

[@yellofrazido]

the best Film on Earth Frankenstein Nr 1 and ❗️BORIS❗️the Monster R.I.P. 💜BORIS💜

[@mikeyiniko]

Very interesting. I have never heard any recordings of her speaking.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I have a notion to second that emotion !!

[@garycarpenter2980]

You have now, she seems like a sweet ole girl and she was lucky to have a man like him

[@gwenking7700]

Why was Boris never knighted? Seems a tragedy

[@maxbeale8186]

100% agree

[@sigurd2873]

Bob Wise was a friend. The Body Snatcher.

[@tomneal72]

Evie died 1993 almost 30 years ago r.i.p with boris

[@thechanneloffun3760]

🙏🙏🙏 rest in peace nice kind man 🙏🙏🙏

[@anthonymagnoni]

I've just noticed a small error : at 3:15, it is not Karloff in the monster make-up but Gil Perkins, Lugosi's stunt-double in "Frankenstein meets the Wolf-man".

[@mackenzierough]

Oh yes you are quite right, thank you.

[@garycarpenter2980]

That was a great movie and it's my favorite of all the old horror movies next to A and C meet Frankenstein which was really great and I just learned that when GS was doing the monster, he tripped on a wire and broke his ankle and Boris had to take his place to finish the movie

[@yaffayafo82]

Good eye. He looks as bad as Glen Strange as The Monster.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@anthony magnoni. I remember reading somewhere that Eddie Parker donned the Frankenstein monster makeup for the distant shots of the Wolfman and the monster fighting each other at the conclusion of "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman"(1943). But perhaps that writer made an error and it may have been Gil Perkins who played the monster in the long shots in that fight scene in that film.

[@verak66]

It's divided. It's thought that Gil Perkins and Eddie Parker divided Bela's Frankenstein monster stunt work. That still really looks like Eddie Parker to me.

[@blainemccants1390]

Very good interview you posted Sir/Madam very good thank you

[@mackenzierough]

I'm glad that you enjoyed it, Ian

[@zombiefulci3301]

I saw a movie when Boris was old and he looked incredibly dark skinned, he was an Indian thru and thru yet he downplayed that part of his heritage

[@therespectedlex9794]

Thank you for making it possible to see this footage. She was a very eloquent woman, and this is very informative. (One suggestion Mackenzie; Freudian or not, you might like to check some of your spelling)

[@mackenzierough]

Thank you very much, would you please point out any spelling mistakes? email me on [e-mail]

[@louisebrown7082]

This is rather good!

[@louisebrown7082]

Irene, I reckon it was her who got it wrong. Boris lost his parents around 5 or 6. She probably got confused. His upbringing was confusing. And she got confused about how many siblings he had as well.

[@louisebrown7082]

@@irened. Maybe.

[@louisebrown7082]

@@irened. - I wouldn't go as far as to say that. I liked the look of his wife before her Dorothy, Sara's mother. I wonder if she really did end up with Evie's husband?

[@yvettemoore1228]

How lovely. Personally, I can't bring myself to watch Frankenstein, despite how wonderful his performance was. I can't watch the National Theatre performance by Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch did either. I have too much sympathy for the 'monster', but I am convinced that Boris's performance is the one that all future actors look to. It was HUMAN, with all the nuance that brings. A wonderful job. He was a wonderful artist and one of my favourites is Colonel March, because it still allows his humour.

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

No..Poor Boris was not treated kindly by his brothers.

[@julianmarsh1378]

And there were giants...

[@alecwilliams7111]

Certainly a wonderful interview with an interesting and well spoken interview subject. Check KZbin. I believe they have run a television production of THE LARK with Karloff and Julie Harris (a wonderful actress), and a marvelous biography of Rasputin, played superbly by Karloff.

[@janedoe5229]

Fechin was not Mexican, but a Russian. However, he came to America and settled in the Southwest.

[@verak66]

"Two disastrous marriages" re: Sara. Not true. Her second husband, Sparky, was a lovely man. I met them both.

[@verak66]

Curious why you used a Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman photo in this piece about BK. The shot is Eddie Parker doubling for Bela carrying Ilona Massey.

[@mackenzierough]

Yes sorry it was a mistake!

[@verak66]

@@mackenzierough Thanks for answering.

[@jamesresmondo2663]

He Was The Frankenstein Monster. Anyone Else Was A Cheap Imitation.

[@sigurd2873]

Until Chris Pratt lol.

[@TimothyJonSarris]

She really could have been a little more charitable with regard to her description of Sara Karloff’s personal life.