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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
TCM 46 Nov 30 08:00pm Add to My Calendar
Movies, 90 Mins.

**** (Rated NR)

Baron Frankenstein creates a hissing, frizzy-haired female for his other monster.

Cast: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, O. P. Heggie, Una O'Connor, Ernest Thesiger, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, E. E. Clive, Lucien Prival, Dwight Frye, Reginald Barlow, Mary Gordon, Anne Darling.
Director(s): James Whale.
Producer(s): Carl Laemmle Jr.

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Jeesh! What a review!

Only her hairdresser knows for sure!

I wonder if Kash has cable. This show is for her!
That is such a great picture!

Found this, now we know Elsa's hairdressing secrets!

"In addition to playing the Monster's Mate, Lanchester also appeared as Frankenstein authoress Mary Shelley in an elegant introductory scene. Lanchester told interviewer Greg Mank that, for her scenes as the Bride, makeup man Jack P. Pierce "took ages to make a scar that hardly shows under my chin. For a whole hour he would draw two lines of glue, put a red line down the middle, then start making up the white edges of the scar--meticulously done. Well, frankly, I'm sure he could have bought such a scar for ten cents in a joke shop. . . After the scar came the eyebrows, and the hair. It's my own hair. I had it lifted up from my face, all the way around; then they placed a cage on my head and combed my own hair over that cage. Then they put the gray-streak hairpieces in afterwards."

From this site: http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/bride.html

That's just incredible- thanks!
I missed the movie tonight. I had a long phone call.
Off goes the TV.