5. Boris Karloff:
Boris did quite a bit of radio, but takes the number five rating based on just one single performance….”The Cat Wife”.
This is a must listen episode of Arch Obler's “Lights Out”. Karloff plays a hardworking cuckold with a horrid wife. She transforms into an unearthly 'horror' after she argues with Boris when he comes home to find her partying with her drunken,rowdy friends.
This episode is freely available on the internet. Do a bit of searching on the old time radio sites and you will find it. The performances of Karloff and the woman who plays his shrew wife are among the most compelling in all of old time radio.
