The Bride of Frankenstein - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Bride of Frankenstein"
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Timing:
1:15 (75 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
Editor
Ted J. Kent
Editor
Art Direction
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
Costume Design
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Orchestrator
Clifford Vaughan
Orchestrator
Director of Photography
John J. Mescall
Director of Photography
Musician
Camera Operator
Alan Jones
Camera Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Edwin Wetzel
Sound Effects Editor
Hairstylist
Irma Kusely
Hairstylist
Screenplay
William Hurlbut
Screenplay
Edmund Pearson
Screenplay
Novel
Grip
Fred Stoll
Grip
Special Effects
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Story
Special Effects Technician
Ken Strickfaden
Special Effects Technician
Assistant Director
Harry Mancke
Assistant Director
Fred Frank
Assistant Director
Joseph A. McDonough
Assistant Director
Special Effects Assistant
David S. Horsley
Special Effects Assistant
Additional Writing
Tom Reed
Additional Writing
Music Coordinator
Abe Meyer
Music Coordinator
Sound Engineer
William Hedgcock
Sound Engineer
Stand In
Monte Montague
Stand In
Peter Shaw
Stand In
Assistant Makeup Artist
Otto Lederer
Assistant Makeup Artist
Script Consultant
Flo Brummel
Script Consultant
Scoring Mixer
Larry Aicholtz
Scoring Mixer
Visual Effects
Jack Cosgrove
Visual Effects
David S. Horsley
Visual Effects
Cleo E. Baker
Visual Effects
Russell Lawson
Visual Effects
Original Story
Sound Supervisor
Gilbert Kurland
Sound Supervisor
Adaptation
Philip MacDonald
Adaptation
William Hurlbut
Adaptation
R.C. Sherriff
Adaptation
Lawrence G. Blochman
Adaptation
Josef Berne
Adaptation
Morton Covan
Adaptation
Makeup Trainee
Otto Lederer
Makeup Trainee
Assistant Camera
William Dodds
Assistant Camera
Visual Effects Camera
John P. Fulton
Visual Effects Camera
Hair Setup
Irma Kusely
Hair Setup
Supervising Film Editor
Maurice Pivar
Supervising Film Editor
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, there were 21 corpses in the film, but censors reduced the number of dead bodies.
- Boris Karloff lost 20 pounds due to constantly being in makeup and costume.
- Filming of the picture took 46 days.
- In 1998, the film was included in the National Film Registry of the United States as being of significant artistic merit.
- The role of Doctor Pretorius was initially offered to Claude Rains, but he had to decline due to filming commitments on another project.
- For the role of the Bride, James Whale initially wanted to cast Brigitte Helm or Louise Brooks.
- Shortly before filming began, Colin Clive broke his leg after falling from a horse. As a result, many of the scenes featuring Frankenstein were shot in a way that he was either sitting in a chair or lying in bed.
- The working title of the film was “The Return of Frankenstein.”
- The Bride is the only classic ‘monster’ character in the Universal films who doesn't kill anyone.
- It is in this film that the monster speaks for the first time.
- In the film's credits, a question mark appears instead of the name of the actress who played the Bride, with Elsa Lanchester only credited as playing Mary Shelley. This was clearly done in analogy with the first film in the series, where the name of Boris Karloff, who played the creature, was also replaced with a question mark in the opening credits to build suspense.
- While filming the scene where the monster climbs out of the flooded basement of the burnt-down mill, Boris Karloff slipped and broke his leg. During subsequent filming, a metal pin on his shin, which was supposed to weigh down his gait, was bandaged to his broken leg as a splint to fix the fractured bone.
- Boris Karloff protested the fact that his character begins to speak in "Bride of Frankenstein" (in the first "Frankenstein" the monster couldn't speak), but Whale did not heed his demands. Because the creature had to speak, Karloff had to leave his dental prosthesis in his mouth, which he removed in the first film, so in "Bride of Frankenstein" the creature's cheeks don't appear as sunken.
- The appearance of the little people, who are the result of Pretorius's experiments, is a clear reference to the film "The Private Life of Henry VIII." Both films were united by the participation of Elsa Lanchester.
- In the original version of the film, there was a scene where the hunchback Karl (Dwight Frye) kills his helpless relatives and stages the murder to look like the monster's work. This plotline was completely removed after preview screenings.
- In total, scenes with a total length of about 15 minutes were removed from the film. Some of the removed scenes could have significantly affected the perception of the film—for example, one of the lost shots featured a monster-like baby doll holding a child. The censorship removal of scenes of violence led to a serious logical gap—the peasants' hatred of the Monster becomes inexplicable. All the material removed from the director's cut of the film is considered lost.
- Boris Karloff protested that in "Bride of Frankenstein" his character begins to speak (in the first "Frankenstein" the monster could not speak), but Whale didn’t heed his demands. Because the creature had to speak, Karloff had to leave his dental prosthesis in his mouth, which he had removed in the first film, so in "Bride of Frankenstein" the creature’s cheeks appear less sunken.
- The appearance of the little people, the result of Pretorius's experiments, is an obvious reference to the film "The Private Life of Henry VIII." Both films featured Elsa Lanchester.
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