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Worth 1,000 Words: The Revenge of Karloff and Company

 Steve Crum  June 19, 2016
By Steve Crum

Universal makeup artist supreme Jack Pierce gets humorously attacked on the set of Son of Frankenstein (1939) by Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and director Rowland V. Lee.

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