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Robert Florey's Frankenstein Starring Bela Lugosi (Paperback)
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Robert Florey's Frankenstein Starring Bela Lugosi (Paperback)
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With the success of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, Universal
Pictures was quick to capitalize on creating a new Lon Chaney in
Bela Lugosi. Chaney had been the original choice to portray a duel
role as both Dracula and Professor van Helsing, Dracula's
adversary. Before production could begin Chaney died suddenly
leaving Carl Laemmle Jr. without a star. Laemmle Jr. had seen
Dracula on the stage in New York City, although he could not recall
if he had seen Lugosi or Raymond Huntley in the role of Count
Dracula. However Lugosi was performing in the touring company which
happened to be in Los Angeles at that time. Was he the new Lon
Chaney? Lugosi was not Carl Jr's first choice for the role. However
he eventually won the part and now they needed more ideas for him.
"Murders in the Rue Morgue," "Cagliostro," "The Invisible Man" and
"Frankenstein" were top on the list. One day in March 1931 Robert
Florey, recently returned to Hollywood from Europe, was having
lunch at the Musso and Frank Restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard. He
was approached by an old acquaintance, Richard Schayer, head of
Universal's story department. Schayer told him that his studio was
looking for ideas for a new horror film to star Bela Lugosi and he
knew Florey was involved with The Theatre du Grand-Guignol de
Paris, (a small theater, in an obscure alley in Paris which
specialized in sadistic, shocking, explicit, violent melodramas and
became known as the "Theater of Horrors." It opened in 1897 and
closed in 1962.) They both agreed on "Frankenstein" being the best
choice. Schayer suggested that Florey would stand a better chance
at being asigned writer and director if he were to present the idea
to Carl Laemmle Jr. We present now the script for"Frankenstein" as
it would have been had Bela Lugosi starred; and Rober Florey
directed.
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