among movies made macgrath s short stories 1920 douglas fairbanks production company s feature-length adventure film mollycoddle, based on macgrath s short story same title appeared in saturday evening post in 1913. directed victor fleming, featured fairbanks, ruth renick, , wallace beery , distributed newly created company united artists. said during same time, young boris karloff, had few uncredited movie roles, chose stage name first screen credit during 1920 macgrath novel drums of jeopardy, had been published saturday evening post in january of year , featured russian mad scientist character named boris karlov. name boris karlov used macgrath s book 1922 broadway play, 1923 actor boris karloff using similar-sounding variation, character film version renamed gregor karlov.
harold macgrath s success made him wealthy man and, although traveled world extensively, syracuse, new york, home, , there during 1912 built english country-style mansion renowned landscaped gardens. in article in april 23, 1932, issue of saturday evening post title short autobiography of deaf man , macgrath told public how had struggled in life result of hearing impairment. @ time in history when deaf people typically considered lacking intellectual acuity, had concealed employer , others. harold macgrath died @ home in syracuse few months after article published.
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