The original trailer for The Bride of Frankenstein promised “a lifetime of entertainment in two hours”, but the final edit of the film was seventy-five minutes long. Historians explain this by noting that people didn’t live as long back then.
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The director of the film (James Whale) and a psychiatrist selected 44 simple words for the Monster’s vocabulary by looking at test papers of ten-year olds working at the studio. Fifty years later, they were still using the same 44 words to create dialog for Steven Segal movies.
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Elsa Lanchester based the hissing, jerky behavior of the monster on swans she’d seen at the park… which is why, in one deleted sequence, she lays an egg.
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Colin Clive, the actor who played Henry Frankenstein in the first two films, died just two years after The Bride of Frankenstein. His ashes lay unclaimed in a basement for forty years. Eventually, they were scattered at sea… with a second flush just to be sure…
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Boris Karloff did not want to speak as the monster because that would require his wearing his dental plate; but, the director insisted. Film historians claim that this is why, in no scene from the movie, do we see Frankenstein’s monster eating taffy.
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Elsa Lanchester was married to Charles Laughton until his death in 1962 forced her to seek an annulment.
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The movie’s line (uttered by the monster) “We belong dead” was voted as the #63 of “The 100 Greatest Movie Lines” by Premiere magazine; it is also Flint, Michigan’s town motto.
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Boris Karloff fell down a well and broke his leg during the early filming of The Bride of Frankenstein. Whale considered just filming the rest of the movie down there but Elsa Lanchester refused claiming that she was “not a well woman”…
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Colin Clive broke a leg during filming which explains why the character of Henry Frankenstein screams every alternate step.
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Frankenstein’s bride is the only Universal Studios monster that never kills anyone. There was a subplot where she was terribly racist and stole her neighbor’s mail; but, that was abandoned because they thought Ty Cobb might sue.
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I was kind of expecting at least one pun of Mary Wollenstein C, but alas Yorrick there was none
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Puns are beneath me, Deb… unless I make one; then, they are CHARMING…
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Charming C, yep, suits you
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Either that or “Bond… James Bond”…
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Hubby is watching all them in sequence at the moment
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I love the Bond movies… except “On Her Majesties Secret Service”… WORST BOND EVER!
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I’ll ask Pete which one he dislikes the most
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Pete reckons You Only Live Twice was the worst, but he did agree Her Majasties was bad
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My favorite Bond-girl is in You Only Live Twice; but, it was panned by nearly everyone. The assault team with the bikini-clad woman was a little ridiculous…
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I literally spit my tea at the Steven Seagal reference. It explains so much…
Well done.
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I would’ve said “Vin Diesel” but then I’d have to contend with Deb’s anger…
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In ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, Dracula wants to put Lou’s brain in Frankenstein’s monster, but Bud butts in with their baseball team routine. Fortunately, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN was made years before A & C became famous, or else Elsa might never have gotten to first base.
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Who?
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A second flush? No big deal compared to djt’s “People are flushing ten times, fifteen times”. What was he flushing anyway? Definitely more than ashes.
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I think they found it was classified documents… I guess walking over to the shredder was too much for him…
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A few bloggers have been writing about Franklin Frankenstein lately. Must be something in the air.
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To me, Frankenstein is both a horror icon and a philosophical dilemma. It spits in the face of Cartesian Dualism…
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