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What film was Boris Karloff working on when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931)?

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Boris Karloff was working on Graft (1931), in which Karloff played a murderer, when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931).

Whale spotted Karloff in the Universal commissary.

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