Time-Life - Frankenstein - USA (2019-06)
I n 1931, Universal Pictures released a risky horror film star- ring a virtually unknown Hungarian-American actor named Bela Lug ...
released by Thomas Edison’s studios in 1910. Shot in three or four days in the Bronx (New York City was then the center of the b ...
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Universal hired to direct Frankenstein. Though he liked to put on aristocratic airs, Whale’s beginnings were nothing if not humb ...
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of romantic quality that makes strong men leave civilization to shoot big game,” Whale later said. After consid- ering Bette Dav ...
CREATED BY JACK PIERCE (above, at left), the head of Universal’s makeup department, Karloff’s makeup took nearly four hours to a ...
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 45 the actor himself would later call the “small but showy” role of a convict named Galloway. (“I had ugly c ...
KARLOFF LAY ON A RECLINING board between scenes— probably to take the heavy costume’s weight off his bad back (opposite). After ...
film’s writers, adding that “the mon- ster... was also scared.” Then there was the all-important question of the monster’s appea ...
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skull off straight across like a potlid, hinge it, pop the brain in, and then clamp it on tight. That is the reason I decided to ...
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Expressionist pictures in Hollywood before—Rex Ingram’s The Magician, for instance, which I’m sure Whale saw,” the noted film sc ...
A CROWD WAITED TO SEE Frankenstein in 1931 (this page). Opposite: The movie played at New York City’s Rialto Theater on a double ...
For Whale, the famous creation scene (“It’s alive!”) was the key to the film’s success, but once again there was little to go on ...
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