When I posted that treasure yesterday of Boris Karloff reciting the song "It Was a Very Good Year" -- which I've quite-literally been trying to find for over 50 years since seeing it on TV when a kid -- I intended for that to be it with Boris Karloff for now. But when having tracked it down, I came across another video with him that was a treat -- and that got me to thinking and I went searching for yet another treasure...and happily, I found it, as well. So, I'm going to make it a bit of a Boris Karloff fest, yet with nothing even scary about it, nor with a monster anywhere in sight. This video today is one that I came across by accident. It's from The Red Skelton Show, when Karloff appeared with another horror-movie legend, Vincent Price, and the two men sing a song, “The Two of Us.” Fun, odd fact: Both fellow actually appeared in Broadway musicals! Karloff played Capt. Hook in an earlier version of Peter Pan before the Mary Martin musical It starred Jean Arthur as Peter -- a wonderful actress most people will likely know from her role opposite Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. And even more interestingly, that musical of Peter Pan had both music and words written by Leonard Bernstein. And Vincent Price was in a showed called Darling of the Day, based on a novel and movie, Holy Matrimony. It has a great score -- by Jule Styne (who wrote the music to Gypsy and many others) and E.Y. Harburg (who wrote the lyrics to The Wizard of Oz and Finian's Rainbow), but it flopped. (I actually saw a local production of the show in Chicago with my dad.) This is from 1968, the same year as Karloff's appearance on the video yesterday on The Jonathan Winters Show. I suspect he never figured he'd turned into a musical-comedy variety performer. Or, since he made How the Grinch Stole Christmas just two years earlier in 1966, a beloved children's TV star.
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