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...premiered the song in a 1930 film of the same name. Dear Mr. Gable "sang" it in "Idiot?s Delight," in 1939; then Astaire made it his own. For Mel Brooks fans, the definitive rendition is by Peter Boyle, as the top-hatted monster in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein." We have to wonder what Berlin thought of this interpretation, or of the jaunty techno-pop version that went to #4 in 1983 - 53 years after Richman first...
...which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Is there something about almost-humanoids that brings out the animal in her? Warning: Mrs. Heston is fully aware of her right to bear arms...
...He’s kind of a gentle giant, in the tradition of Shelley’s Frankenstein. He’s a monster who only wants to be loved,” said Meyers, who is also a Crimson editor...
...frightfully difficult issue and it's not at all aided by researchers who are creating human embryos in the lab solely for the purpose of harvesting their stem cells. This has a Dr. Frankenstein aspect that threatens much of the hard-won good will scientists may have gleaned from supporters who remain a bit squeamish about using discarded embryos from infertility treatments...
...Every shoot day, a reported three-hour makeup procedure would be required to make Gwynne into the Frankenstein character he played...