From: lenona321@yahoo.com   
      
   No, I don't mean in the movies.   
      
   I was amazed to find, recently, that Bela Lugosi was married five times and   
   Boris Karloff was married SIX times - which was likely more than average, even   
   in Hollywood. (Incredibly, despite Karloff's being "too hungry" to turn down   
   you-know-what role in    
   1931, he was already married to his fifth wife at the time! How could he have   
   afforded all those marriages and divorces?)   
      
   Even more amazing is that both actors had only ONE confirmed child each - both   
   offspring were born in 1938. (Yes, I've heard of Tony Karloff, but there   
   doesn't seem to be any evidence he was actually related.)   
      
   And Boris was apparently well-known for infidelities.   
      
   So either both men were incredibly proficient in condom use in the 1910s,   
   1920s and 1930s (I'm referring to condoms in particular because back then, the   
   Comstock Laws would likely have made it difficult even for married women to   
   access family planning    
   services, so it was up to men to go to the store and buy condoms), or both   
   actors had fertility problems.   
      
   Too bad we'll likely never know...   
      
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