After 10 years of cinema stardom, actor Boris Karloff made his Broadway debut in 1941 as part of the original cast of the comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace.” He portrayed a criminal who had his face surgically altered to look like – guess who – Boris Karloff. The role wasn’t written for Karloff, but he was persuaded to take it by producers Lindsay and Crouse.
What long-lived celebrity is credited with saying, “I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time”?
A) Ronald Reagan
B) Irving Berlin
C) Tony Bennett
D) Pablo Picasso
Answer Monday
Thursday’s answer: Rosita, the first bilingual Muppet on “Sesame Street,” is a fruit bat.
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