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Choicest holdover from Jane is Bette Davis, unabashedly securing her claw-hold as Hollywood's grande-dame ghoul. As Miss Charlotte, Bette rummages through the psyche of a Southern belle who first appears, already acting a teeny bit strange, one memorable evening in 1927. During a ball, someone slips out to the summer house and takes a cleaver to Charlotte's married lover, who has just jilted her. First John's right hand is lopped off, then his head, never to be seen again. Anyway, not for 37 years...
Died. Peter Lorre, 59, a squat, morose Hungarian actor with a heart of ghoul, who first chilled spines as the psychopathic child killer in the German classic M, moved to Hollywood in 1934 to take such varied roles as Mr. Moto and a passport racketeer in Casablanca, in more than 80 movies was chiefly famed for his bug-eyed, nasal-voiced mastery of menace and the macabre; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
McKenna's brother and girl friend provide the crisis by springing him from prison with a fantastic plot a few hours before the execution. The plot now changes from a moral drama to a horror story. The over-zealous prosecutor turns into a murderous ghoul ("I think the execution of the law upon an offender is something beautiful and moving") who will not be bilked of his prey. The brother, drawing off pursuit, crashes his car and gets disfigured by fire; the prosecutor, not seeing the difference, prepares to shoot the charred victim ("He's conscious, isn't he? That...
Ghoulardi plays bongo drums on human skulls, and he hits fungos with shrunken heads; but mainly he just plays the nut clown. He shows ads that say, "Drink Ghoulaid," and he says he likes to read The Tragedy of Ghoulius Caesar. From college he graduated magna ghoul laude. Perhaps because he sees himself as another Ghoul Brynner, he has a ghoult complex. His favorite ballplayer is Ghoul Hodges. This goes on until adults can justifiably despair of teendom as a world they never made...
Adela proudly notes that Rogers was the first trial lawyer to make extensive use of props. To demonstrate the direction of a bullet that had killed a man, Rogers brought the dead man's small intestines into court. "Ghoul, grave robber!" shouted the prosecutor, but Rogers won the case. In a morals case, police witnesses claimed they had watched the crime through holes in a door. Rogers lugged the door into court. He placed the defendant behind the door, put a girl on his lap, and invited judge and jury to peep through the door. None of them could...