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Correction: Today's pic comes from Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, not Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Poor Moose, Chaney's German Shepherd, died in 1944 (with A&CMF coming out 1948 that doesn't make it entirely likely that picture came from that film). Moose was run over by a production truck on a movie set. Chaney must have been devastated. I've altered the article below to reflect the correction.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Today’s pic is of the great Lon Chaney Jr. in his iconic Wolf Man make-up and comes from some down time during the making of Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man where Chaney reprised the role of Larry Talbot alongside Bela Lugosi’s Frankenstein.
I've actually not seen this movie, but this is the second picture I've featured from it, the first involving Jack Pierce applying Chaney's make-up. Whoever the still photographer was on this film know what he or she was doing, I tell ya' that because this picture is awesome.
In fact it was one of the first images I found that made me want to do this column. Here you have Chaney taking a breather, in full make-up, using his beloved dog Moose as a pillow. Never let it be said that The Wolf Man isn’t a pack animal.
Click for a bigger image! Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic is gonna have an old friend for dinner! See you then!
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
- Total Recall
- The Pink Panther
- Fawlty Towers
- The Trouble With Harry
- Beetlejuice
- The Shining
- Thriller
- An American Werewolf In London
- The Gate
- The Fly (1958)
- Halloween
- Army of Darkness
- Frankenstein
- Seed of Chucky
- Psycho
- John Carpenter’s The Thing (Bottin)
- Creature From the Black Lagoon
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
- Creepshow
- Night of the Living Dead (’68)
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I got nothing
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Umm..
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Hat trick!
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Armie Hammer for Superman.
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MAKE IT SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Is one of the only reasons I still come to AICN on a daily basis. Keep it up!
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And sleep too, obviously.
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Picture, meet desktop.
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Really like that movie.
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...someone at least arrange a photo shoot of Zooey posing as Lois. A minimum of at least 20 pictures. If she can also star as Lois in the next Superman movie, even better.
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Provided Margot Kidder (back in the day) had been considerably prettier, possessed an abundance of charisma, and not been a coke-ravaged lunatic.In other words... she's PERFECT. Just ask BSB (whose ardent devotion to all things Zooey has since converted me).
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If you darken that pic slightly and increase the contrast a bit, it really improves the quality of those old greyed-out pics. I do that with vintage porn pics, or i did til i came across a few pics of my granny, back when she was hot. Lesson learned.
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This is the only reason I go to this site now. I love it.
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At least she has more than one expression on her face when she acts.
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And why the HELL are folks talking about Superman here?!!!
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That is awesome... And dogs make great pillows. Unless you have one of those tiny, yippy dogs, then it's probably not a good idea.
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Oct 17, 2010 6:45:27 PM CDT
"Uh!... oh... I had the strangest dream, Moose."
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
"... I dreamed I visited the future, the year 2010, in fact! But that even so, even after 60 years of scientific and artistic breakthroughs I can't even begin to comprehend right now, special effects experts STILL never quite manage to be able to create a believable, onscreen werewolf!"
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Well I did.
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Bud Westmore did a great job streamlining the original Frankenstein and Wolfman makeups from Jack Pierce's original designs.This behind the scenes picture reminds me of when I was a kid in the early 70's being happy to find any picture from A&C Meet Frankenstein printed in the latest issue of Famous Monsters.Speaking of which,has anybody seen the newest incarnation of that magazine?It's slicker,with better paper,but it doesn't capture the editorial enthusiasm Forry Ackerman brought to the original.
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as opposed to the makeup job from abbott and costello meets frankie.
they were very different looking. link goes to pic of abbott + costello wolfman. http://tinyurl.com/26sexqd just sayin. -
This pic was from a break on "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman". You can also tell it's Jack Pierce's out of the box hand made make-up and not Bud Westmore who did them with latex appliances on "A&C Meet Frankenstein". Ona sad note, poor Moose was run over by a truck sometime shortly after this picture was taken.
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Don't ya mean Boris Karloff?
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Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit!
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It's all make-up and grunting.
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Nope, Lugosi played Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, not Karloff.
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Karloff did not reprise the role of Frankenstein for this film, therefore thr role was played by Lugosi. Karloff appeared as Frankenstein three times: the original, Bride of Frankenstein, and Ghost of Frankenstein.
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Watch the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein and then compare it to any of the other imitations and tell me Karloff didn't bring something unique to the role. There's more to acting than dialogue. I guess Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin never really acted until they could speak on screen, right?
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...but only three of them featured him as the monster (the original, Bride of, and Son of). He appeared as a mad doctor in House of Frankenstein and as Baron Frankenstein's grandson in Frankenstein 1970. (The latter is technically the only film in which he plays "Frankenstein".) Karloff also donned the famous makeup for a guest appearance on the tv series Route 66.
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Oct 17, 2010 9:08:10 PM CDT
I was only adding to my fellow sailors lines from Ed Wood.
by sailor_ripley
I do believe that playing Frankenstein's monster is definitely acting. Just wanted to clear that up, please don't think I'm that much of an idiot.
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Nothink but MAKEUP and GRUNTING, ***RRRRRRRR!!!!!****
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Wow... did not know that... Damn I love learning new things! :)
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Is that the actual Ed Wood line? I was pretty sure I had that screwed up somehow. Awesome fuckin' movie that is, Landau was incredible.
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Oct 17, 2010 10:01:56 PM CDT
I dunno if the Ed Wood like is verbatim, but it's pretty close
by nasty in the pasty
Martin Landau IS Bela Lugosi in that film. It's downright eerie.
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Fuck-a-doodle-doo.
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Dracula, and "Abbot and Costello Meet Dracula." Bizarre, eh?
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I think he played Dracula a dozen times.
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Make it so!
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...Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman? I look at junk that you've had on movie a day, and while I have definitely seen my share of crap, still, I can't believe a horror film fan hasn't done a Frankenstein movie marathon(especially since they're all only about 70 min, shoot, you could watch 4 in about the time you could watch a lord of the rings fim) or at least taken an hour or so to watch one of them. I know you said that you haven't seen this before, but have you seen all the others? You talk about karloff's acting compared to others who've played the role so I assume you've seen at least one non-Karloff Frankenstein. I won't pretend that this film is great, but it is a classic in the sense that it is one of the original Frankenstein series. Plus it's kinda cool to watch the film knowing that Bela was supposed to be talking in the film(was given Ygor's brain in The Ghost of Frankenstein) and they cut that part out.
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I'm an idiot. Without the accent, I totally missed the reference. I thought you were serious!
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home? I have no home. hunted. despised. i'm okay, let's shoot this fucker!
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Much better than deer-in-headlights, somewhat young and glum Zooey. Lois has background, experience, etc. As Bosworth proved, she doesnt work as a kid.
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Oct 18, 2010 8:03:48 AM CDT
Just let Erica Durance play Lois on the big screen
by nasty in the pasty
And have her voice dubbed by Dana Delaney.
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You are one of the few at this site I respect, so I didn't want you to think I was a moron. I guess I need to make the quotes more obvious next time.
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My God, then you still have not heard the Dance Of The New Wine? ;)
Get thee to a store, library or Netflix que and fast, young Sir!
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Just watched the HD version of the original Wolfman off the new Wolfman blu ray last night (been saving that for this month since it hit blu a while back). Can't wait for tomorrow's pic, though! (Watched Silence of the Lambs last Friday)
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to have Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and the Wolfman on blu ray! Hell, they've already got an HD print of Wolfman. Fucking get it done, Universal!
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That bummed me out. Poor Moose. That drive must have felt like shit. I wouldn't want to be on that set that day.
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best one yet!
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Though I've seen that shot before, it's always worth another look. Didn't know that Moose met his maker in that fashion, though - what a tragic end.
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great pic,you think chaney sniffed mooses butt before he laid down?
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Quint, this has got to be the best thing AICN has done in quite a while. I'm hoping this series goes on for a long time.
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These movies, as well as the A&C meet, were great intros to monsters for a 4-5 yr old.
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