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This is for an Original autographed 8x10 phototraph This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron ( Gavin Gordon ), Percy Shelley ( Douglas Walton ), and Shelley's wife Mary ( Elsa Lanchester ) engage in morbidly sparkling conversation. The wicked Byron mockingly chastises Mary for frightening the literary world with her recent novel Frankenstein , but Mary insists that her horror tale preached a valuable moral, that man was not meant to dabble in the works of God. Moreover, Mary adds that her story did not end with the death of Frankenstein's monster, wupon she tells the enthralled Byron and Shelley what happened next. Surviving the windmill fire that brought the original 1931 Frankenstein to a close, the Monster ( Boris Karloff ) quickly revives and goes on another rampage of death and destruction. Meanwhile, his ailing creator Henry Frankenstein ( Colin Clive ) discovers that his former mentor, the demented Doctor Praetorius ( Ernst Thesiger ), plans to create another life-sized monster âe" this time a woman! After a wild and wooly "creation" sequence, the bandages are unwrapped, and the Bride of the Monster ( Elsa Lanchester again) emerges. Alas, the Monster's tender efforts to connect with his new Mate are rewarded only by her revulsion and hoarse screams. "She hate me," he growls, "Just like others!" Wonderfully acted and directed, The Bride of Frankenstein is further enhanced by the vivid Franz Waxman musical score; even the film's occasional lapses in logic and continuity (it was trimmed from 90 to 75 minutes after the first preview) are oddly endearing. Director James Whale was memorably embodied by Ian McKellen in the Oscar-winning 1998 biopic Gods and Monsters . Biography from : Early lifeLanchester was born Elsa Sullivan Lanchester in Lewisham , London , England . Her parents, James Sullivan and Edith Lanchester, were considered Bohemian , and refused to legalize their union in any conventional way to satisfy the era's conservative society. Edith's parents even successfully sent her to an asylum for a while, as she refused to wed James even if she wanted to live with him. An older sibling, Waldo (b. 1898), completed the family. As a child, Elsa studied dance in Paris under Isadora Duncan , whom she disliked. When the school was discontinued due to the start of First World War she returned to England. At that point (she was about twelve years of age) she considered herself capable to teach dancing in the Isadora Duncan style (despite her own scathing remarks about her former teacher's style) and, very enterprisingly, started to give classes to children of her South London neighbourhood, with which she earned a welcome bit of extra income in her household. Film careerLanchester married actor Charles Laughton in 1929 . In 1928 she had appeared in a couple of 'silent shorts' - Bluebottles and Daydreams - in which Laughton made brief appearances. They also appeared together in a 1930 'film revue' entitled Comets , featuring British variety acts, in which they duetted in 'The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie.' Lanchester appeared in several other early British talkies, including Potiphar's Wife , starring Laurence Olivier (1931). She acted with Laughton again in 1933 in one of her best-known early screen appearances, as a highly comical Anne of Cleves in The Private Life of Henry VIII . Laughton was by now m... 
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