The Bride of Frankenstein

 The Bride of Frankenstein premiered on April 19th, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois. 

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Directed by James Whale. 

Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff
and Ernest Thesiger 

Dwight Frye

Billy Barty in a jar 

Dwight Frye

 Dwight Frye was born on February 22nd, 1899 in Salina, Kansas. 

Dwight Frye (1899-1943)

As R.M. Renfield in Dracula (1931) with
Bela Lugosi, David Manner , 
Edward Van Sloan and Helen Chandler

With Boris Karloff
in Frankenstein (1931)

The Vampire Bat (1933)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Young Frankenstein

 Young Frankenstein was released on December 15th, 1974. 

Young Frankenstein (12/15/1974)

Written and directed by Mel Brooks and co-written and Starring Gene Wilder. 

Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder

Also starring Madeline Kahn, Terri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle. 

Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman,
Gene Wilder and Terri Garr

Madeline Kahn and Wilder

Peter Boyle

Rolfe Sedan in one of his last roles

I will never not laugh at this. 

Mel Brooks discovered that the designer of the laboratory sets for the original Universal Frankenstein films was still alive and living in Los Angeles. 

Frankenstein’s Laboratory 

Ken Strickfaden had stored all of the old equipment in his garage. Brooks made a deal with Strickfaden to rent the equipment for the new movie and gave him the credit he didn’t receive for the original films. 

Boris Karloff

On November 23rd, 1887, Boris Karloff was born in Surrey, England. 

Boris Karloff (1887-1969)

Frankenstein’s monster

With Dwight Frye and 
Edward Van Sloan in
Frankenstein (1931)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
with
Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester and Ernest Thesiger 

The Mummy (1932)
with Bramwell Fletcher and Edward Van Sloan

Scarface (1932)

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
with Angelo Rossitto

Narrator and Voice of Grinch in
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Also on this date:

Dominique Dunne was born in 1959

Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester was born on October 28th, 1902.

Although her credits span 50 years of film and television, she is most well known for her role as the bride in The Bride of Frankenstein also starring Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger (dir. James Whale 1935).

Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 
with
Colin Clive, Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger

Waxwork Records THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music by Franz Waxman

Mary Poppins (1964)

Willard (1971) with Bruce Davison,
Ernest Borgnine and Sondra Locke

Also on this date:

Annie Potts was born in 1952