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  2. Frankenstein's monster - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein's monster in an editorial cartoon, 1896, an allegory on the Silverite movement displacing other progressive factions in late 19th century U.S. Shelley described Frankenstein's monster as an 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) creature of hideous contrasts: His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great ...

  3. Boris Karloff - Wikipedia

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    Karloff reprised the role of Frankenstein's monster in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) for James Whale. Then he and Lugosi were reunited for The Raven (1935). Billed only by his last name during this period, Karloff had top billing above Lugosi in all their films together despite Lugosi having the larger role in The Raven.

  4. Elizabeth Lavenza - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) plays the same role in the 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as she does in the novel, save one significant alteration.After the monster (Robert De Niro) kills her by tearing her heart out, a distraught Victor (Kenneth Branagh) reanimates her as an undead being, attaching her head and hands to a different female corpse.

  5. In the flesh: Real-life players and novel characters in 'Mary ...

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    Percy, played John Patrick Hayden, takes up the part of the protagonist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, propelled by the scourge of mortality to seek a path to eternal or at least a long and health life.

  6. Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously ...

  7. Review: Goya gave Frankenstein's monster his Hollywood face ...

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    That’s the etching that actor Boris Karloff and makeup designer Jack Pierce turned to for inspiration in creating the look of their Frankenstein movie monster. Fitting horror in 1799, 1931 and 2024.

  8. The scariest Halloween monsters and their origin stories - AOL

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    Of all the mythical monsters, Frankenstein is probably the most famous. Brought to life by author Mary Shelley in the 1818 novel by the same name, the mythical monster was said to have been ...

  9. Igor (character) - Wikipedia

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    Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, Basil Rathbone as Dr. Frankenstein's son Wolf Frankenstein, and Bela Lugosi as Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939). Igor, or sometimes Ygor, is a stock character, a sometimes hunch-backed laboratory assistant to many types of Gothic villains or as a fiendish character who assists only himself, the latter most prominently portrayed by Bela Lugosi in Son ...