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The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed by Karl Freund.The screenplay by John L. Balderston was adapted from a treatment written by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer.
1932 Tiger Shark: Quita Silva [11] The Mummy: Helen Grosvenor [12] 1933 Luxury Liner: Miss Morgan [12] The Man Who Dared: Teena Pavelic [12] The Sin of Nora Moran: Nora Moran [12] 1934 Grand Canary: Suzan Tranter [12] 1986 Raiders of the Living Dead: Librarian [11] 1993 D. W. Griffith: Father of Film: On-screen participant (documentary) [11]
Boris Karloff as The Mummy (1932) Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy in The Mummy's Ghost (1944). The original series of films consisted of six installments, which starred iconic horror actors such as Boris Karloff (only in the original one, as Imhotep); Tom Tyler and Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis; and lastly Eddie Parker, who played Klaris, a cousin of Kharis.
Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931) . Edward Van Sloan (born Edward Paul Van Sloun; November 1, 1882 – March 6, 1964) [1] was an American character actor best remembered for his roles in the Universal Studios horror films such as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), and The Mummy (1932).
The success of The Phantom of the Opera inspired Universal to finance the production of a long string of horror films through to the 1950s, starting with the base stories of Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Wolf Man (1941), and continuing with numerous sequels to all five films. [24]
Freund directing Boris Karloff in The Mummy (1932) Between 1921 and 1935, Freund directed 10 films, of which the best known are probably his two credited horror films, The Mummy (1932) starring Boris Karloff, and his last film as director, Mad Love (1935) starring Peter Lorre. Freund worked under contract for MGM and Warner Bros. In 1944 he ...
Garris returned in 1995, developing a script that combined elements of the 1932 film and 1942's The Mummy's Tomb. This draft was a period piece awash in Egyptian art-inspired Art Deco, but the vision once again proved too expensive for the studio and was discarded for a modern setting.
Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs—Murder, My Sweet (1944; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely), The Big Sleep (1946), and Lady in the Lake (1947)—he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Strangers on a Train (1951).