CREATED BY JACK PIERCE
(above, at left), the head
of Universal’s makeup
department, Karloff’s makeup
took nearly four hours to apply,
meaning that the actor had
to show up at the studio at
four a.m. Having designed Bela
Lugosi’s look for Dracula, Pierce
went on to create iconic looks
for The Mummy (1932) and The
Wolf Man (1941), but nothing
he did would equal the effect
of the Frankenstein monster.“The whole outfit weighed
about 35 pounds,” Pierce said
in a 1957 tribute to Karloff on
This Is Your Life, during which he
presented the actor with one of
the bolt-like electrodes that had
been on the creature’s neck.46 LIFE FRANKENSTEIN
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