First the young KARLOFF! as Im-ho-tep. Is it just me or should he and Raymond Massey (oops I'm sorry, I mean MASSEY!) have done a movie together where they played brothers? There really seems to be a "family" resemblence doesn't there?
The older KARLOFF! with a great make-up
job by Jack P. Pierce.
The name "Ardeth Bay" was an anagram of "Death by Ra", the all-powerful Egyptian god. Here with Zita Johann.
Finally KARLOFF! ponders himself. A great actor with a great voice, vastly underrated and tragically underused outside of B-movies. But he made those B-movies a lot more popular and a lot more interesting than most studios A-movies. Some, like Bride of Frandenstein, stand up as masterpieces from that or any other era. By the time of Son of Frankenstein in 1939 Universal was back to billing him as "Boris Karloff". Thank Ra.
