The Bride of Frankenstein - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Bride of Frankenstein"

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Timing: 1:15 (75 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Bride of Frankenstein Official Trailer #1 - (1935) HD

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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Trailer

English

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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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