What is it about Elsa Lanchester and The Bride of Frankenstein? She's the "it" girl of the 20th century, and here's a whole gallery of Bride images. I have a favorite, for some reason.
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Posted on: September 3, 2010 1:09 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: DLC
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September 3, 2010 1:14 AM
Ms Lanchester was quite the Shocker in her day?
but that hair. . . someone call a stylist!
or something.
Posted by: Zeno
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September 3, 2010 1:15 AM
She didn't look that way in Mary Poppins!
Posted by: Caine, ghetto féministe
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September 3, 2010 1:20 AM
That's Elsa Lanchester, PZ. She was gorgeous and she was great as The Bride.
Posted by: DLC
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September 3, 2010 1:27 AM
and I had a thing for Gloria Swanson, Louise Brooks and Myrna Loy. go figure.
Posted by: Caine, ghetto féministe
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September 3, 2010 1:32 AM
DLC, ooh, Myrna Loy. She was beyond fabulous in the Thin Man movies, never could take my eyes off her.
Posted by: tonysidaway
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September 3, 2010 1:41 AM
"I couldn't take my eyes off her. She kept them in a leather draw-string pouch she wore around her throat."
Posted by: TheRatKing
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September 3, 2010 3:27 AM
NOW I recognize why this looks so familiar.
The classic Aphrodite pose... with more tentacle. I approve.
Posted by: llewelly
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September 3, 2010 3:46 AM
I hope you all realize that despite the name of the movie, she did not marry Frankenstein. She married Frankenstein's monster. Yeah, that's right, Frankenstein, the scientist, got jilted, and the monster got the girl.
Posted by: llewelly
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September 3, 2010 3:51 AM
PS: Lancaster was the name of a WII British bomber, not the last name of the actor.
Posted by: HideousC
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September 3, 2010 3:59 AM
The bride didn't marry the monster; he was too ugly and he scared her. Elsa Lanchester was also lovely, and more conventionally coiffed, as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley at the beginning of the movie. Elsa herself was married to the entirely queer (according to her) Charles Laughton.
À propos of Myrna Loy, I'm told there is a bronze statue of her at Venice (CA) High School, her alma mater, and that the ultimate prank for seniors there is to steal her head.
Posted by: seiryoden
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September 3, 2010 4:07 AM
Wow. Elsa Lanchester - so cool. And married to Charles Laughton: an unconventional marriage, but happy by all accounts.
Plus:
Pretty much everything I think is hot is derived from Myrna Loy. Especially the scene in The Thin Man where she tracks down hubby William Powell to a bar and tells the waiter to bring her five martinis to play catch up.
Oh, here it is:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=115968
Posted by: "Roger"
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September 3, 2010 4:09 AM
Ok PZ, this is what makes me think that you've got "issues"!
Posted by: DLC
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September 3, 2010 4:59 AM
Caine and Seiryoden: I had such a "oh I wish" crush on Myrna Loy. She was perfect for the role of Nora Charles.
Posted by: Birger Johansson
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September 3, 2010 5:11 AM
Whlile the "Terminator" TV series spin-off was bad, the female android was cool. Ditto for the ones in "Blade Runner".
"Used parts" females usually do not get very strong character roles in film or TV.
Some of Anne Rice´s undead female characters are interesting, but that is a whole different genre.
In "Red Dwarf", the mirror universe had the AI "Hilly" instead of "Holly", but she had no organic parts.
Posted by: F
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September 3, 2010 5:54 AM
While I rather like the tentacles, the rest...meh.
Birger @ 14:
Holly went female after meeting Hilly, as well. Still no organic parts. ;)
Posted by: Daniel de Rauglaudre
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September 3, 2010 6:00 AM
Makes me think that it is not a serpent which gave the apple to Eve, but an octopus.
Posted by: Pastor Farm
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September 3, 2010 7:33 AM
I don't know...
I'm just not into highlights.
Posted by: Naked Bunny with a Whip
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September 3, 2010 7:35 AM
Wow.
Posted by: John Morales
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September 3, 2010 7:36 AM
She's got suckers on her nipples.
Youch!
Posted by: Czarownik
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September 3, 2010 9:15 AM
I still think she looks like Marge Simpson...
Posted by: stvs
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September 3, 2010 9:22 AM
Then you'll also appreciate the Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci with an asp around her neck.
Posted by: Rumraket
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September 3, 2010 9:35 AM
I'll attempt a little sensationalistic journalism :
TOP ATHEIST INTO TENTACLE SEX.
Brilliant!
Posted by: Dude... Real Men Watch Ponies!
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September 3, 2010 10:01 AM
That's... aptly fitting.
Japan has a significant number of what you would consider atheists.
Japan is also famous for being the source of tentacle porn.
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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September 3, 2010 11:28 AM
THE GREATEST COVER-UP IN HISTORY!!Damn those tree-octopuses.
"I'm ready for my close-up now, mr DeMille."
Posted by: Acronym Jim
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September 3, 2010 12:16 PM
Yep, Sili tree octopuses/pi/podes are nearly as bad as drop bears
Posted by: A. Nuran
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September 3, 2010 1:26 PM
Tentacoo Wape!
Posted by: ronsullivan
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September 3, 2010 1:39 PM
TOP ATHEIST INTO TENTACLE SEX.
Everybody knows you can't top a cephalopod.
One of the two benefits* of attaining great age is that I've got that Bride of Frank thing going on in my hair now—though I've got dirty-blond-to-brown where she's got dramatic black. Sometimes I wear it up to show that off; I have yet to try for that wavy bouffant, though.
I'm working on the open-mouthed hiss.
*I can't remember the other one.
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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September 3, 2010 3:11 PM
Whoa! Flashback.I miss Ghastly.
Posted by: Gregory Greenwood
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September 3, 2010 3:17 PM
Tsk, tsk, PZ. Corrupting impressionable young Pharyngulites like Walton with your tenatcle pron...
Frankenstein is going to be annoyed when he realises that he has been cuckolded by Cthulhu. That would be one... interesting marriage counciling session.
Therapist:- "What appears to be the problem?
Frankenstein:- "I found my wife in bed with an overgrown mollusc..."
Bride of Frankenstein:- "Cthulhu is a cephalopod Elder God, not a mollusc, and we weren't in bed..."
Frankenstein:- "He had his slimy damn tentacles all over you, you wh*re!"
Therapist:- "Mr Frankenstein! That kind of language is not helpful. We are not here to apportion blame, but to determine why this event happened. Now, Mrs Frankenstein, I would like you to begin. Why do you think that you felt compelled to seek companionship elsewhere?"
Bride of Frankenstein:- *sobs* "Frank barely looks at me anymore. He hasn't even electrocuted me in three months, and we used to do it twice every week, and I do not even want to think about how long it has been since we dismembered someone together. Cthulhu makes me feel like a monster again..."
Posted by: jcmartz.myopenid.com
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September 3, 2010 3:17 PM
Looks like The Birth of Venus.
Posted by: Qwerty
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September 3, 2010 3:34 PM
Yea, if I remember my art history well enough, it looks like "The Birth of Venus" crossed with the sea serpants from "Laocoon and His Sons."
But I think the artist was probably inspired by Raquel Welch's shape more than Elsa's.
Posted by: Joffan
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September 3, 2010 3:40 PM
I count ten tentacle tips... so I'll have to with tree-squid.
Posted by: Franklin Percival
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September 3, 2010 7:56 PM
I worry about you sometimes, Herr Myer(s).
Never mingd, whatever keeps you happy.
Posted by: BBCaddict
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September 3, 2010 8:14 PM
It needs to be a tattoo! (if it's not one already)
I predict a full back piece for you PZ!
Posted by: llewelly
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September 3, 2010 10:39 PM
HideousC | September 3, 2010 3:59 AM:
Another idiot who believed the movie. Did you know Simpsons is a cartoon, not a documentary?
Posted by: HideousC
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September 4, 2010 1:17 AM
Elsa Lanchester was in the movie, not the book. Try to keep up.
Posted by: KingUber
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September 4, 2010 2:28 AM
Elsa from Demonbane was named after her
Posted by: Samantha Vimes
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September 4, 2010 3:37 AM
About Myrna Loy: Margo Lane from The Shadow (radio program version) was modeled on her. Then Lois Lane was modeled on Margo Lane. So she gave inspiration for two rather popular fictional women.
Posted by: Cath the Canberra Cook
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September 4, 2010 8:38 AM
I never thought I'd see Tentacoo Wape and Myrna Loy in one conversation. I love you all!