He bragged about his invulnerable immortality in the dreamworld: "I am eternal," smacked her across the face, and came in for the final kill.It""s a long, long way from where you were born," to which Clark replied: "Yes sir, I never forget that, sir."Many of the five nominations that lost were unexpected: Best Actor (Clark Gable who lost to Robert Donat forGoodbye, Mr.The film reunited Colin Clive (as Dr.Frankenstein) with Boris Karloff as the Monster, but brought two new characters to the forefront: Ernest Thesiger as a necromancer who has miniaturized and imprisoned various human beings in glass jars, and Elsa Lanchester as the Monster""s Bride.