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...Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The (Sob!) Ugliest | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Married. Boris Karloff (real name: William Henry Pratt), 58, gaunt cinema bogeyman; and Evelyn Helmore, 42; both for the second time; in Boulder City, Nev., the day after Karloff was granted a divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Stine Pratt, who he said was cruel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Hess. "Vic Oliver [Churchill's son-in-law] made up as Boris Karloff and painted the color of a corpse. . . . Down to skin and bone, going bald, wild eyes set in deep-sunken cavities, he has a nervous twitch and jerky movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Cartoon In Words | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Isle of the Dead (Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Isle of the Dead (Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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