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ShockDoc	MY GOD-THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	Lead	[-]
Mar 25 07 1:57 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In all the 40 plus years I've enjoyed the big guy's movies, I've never noticed 'til now that he has no eyebrows! (Not counting the bulbous ridge over the deep set eyes). At least not the Karloff monster. I dont recall it ever being mentioned elsewhere. I've heard him called 'the lipless monster', but not the 'brow-less!
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captainmarvel1957	Re: MY GOD-THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	#1	[-]
Mar 25 07 2:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You should see him without his pants on.
RatsinFleight	Re: MY GOD-THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	#2	[-]
Mar 25 07 4:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* You should see him without his pants on. Just the Facts, Maam. And to think that for years now people have been attributing Elsa's hissing to her repulsion of anaconda sized appendages...
georgechastain	Re: MY GOD-THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	#3	[-]
Mar 25 07 11:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* In all the 40 plus years I've enjoyed the big guy's movies, I've never noticed 'til now that he has no eyebrows! I think the original idea behind that was that Herr Doktors Frankenstein and Pretorius were fussy about such cosmetic details on their pride and joy, and spent hours tweezing, plucking and shaving to get the right effect. I first became aware of this startling facial peculiarity at a Times Square grindhouse in the early sixties when I caught a double feature of FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DEPILATED and THEY SHAVED HITLER'S GROIN...
ShockDoc	MY GOD -THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	#4	[-]
Mar 25 07 3:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I respectfully defy anyone on this board to provide written proof this has EVER been addressed before... That, and $1 will get me a cup of coffee.
todmichel	Re: MY GOD -THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	#5	[-]
Mar 25 07 5:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Even when I was 12, I noticed in seeing my first "Frankenstein" movie - it was the A&C parody - that the Monster had no eyebrows... Perhaps because I made a number of drawings of the Monster, and (much later) even made a bust of him, and tried to re-create the makeup on myself and some friends - so this absence of eyebrows was always evident for me... But you are right, I don't remember that anything was written specifically about this before.
Dr Borgo	Re: MY GOD -THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	#6	[-]
Mar 25 07 5:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Perhaps because I made a number of drawings of the Monster Same here. I would love to have all my drawings from when I was a kid. One thing that I have never noticed up until the other night was that Ygor doesn't have the same ugly teeth in Ghost Of Frankenstein as he did in Son. I guess Kenton figured Bela's teeth were plenty ugly enough. http://drborgo.tripod.com/
georgechastain	Nothing but the tooth	#7	[-]
Mar 25 07 5:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Ygor doesn't have the same ugly teeth in Ghost Of Frankenstein as he did in Son Kind of a shame, in a way... I think some of the delightful inflection Bela got in lines like "He vass.... HUNT-ingk!" in SON derived from having to enunciate around those dentures. Same thing with Fredric March as Hyde, wearing even more formidable choppers. And, on a somewhat more modest scale but no less dear to me, my personal TV horror host hero M.T. Graves (featured prominently in 3 of the first 10 issues of FAMOUS MONSTERS) wore specially-made uppers that made his speech sound clipped and precise, very much like March's did as Hyde...
thebrainfollower	Re: Nothing but the tooth	#8	[-]
Mar 25 07 5:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thank you Lalla Ward!
Colossus Rex	Re: Nothing but the tooth	#9	[-]
Mar 25 07 5:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	They're under there, somewhere. I kinda wish Pierce had remained consistent in his use of the black circles under the eyes, which I thought added to the Monster's nightmarish appearance in the first film. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think he used them much after that.
dr realart md	Re: Nothing but the tooth	#10	[-]
Mar 25 07 9:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I guess Kenton figured Bela's teeth were plenty ugly enough. Well Bela smoked stogies you know. I don't know about you but I noticed Bela rarely really opened his mouth wide but when he did..it wasn't very pretty. His teeth suffered greatly from cigar abuse. Those Chompers Pierce installed for Son Of Frankenstein probably did alot more good than just adding to his speech impediment.
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Lunkenstein	Re: MY GOD-THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS!	#11	[-]
Mar 26 07 9:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* MY GOD-THE MONSTER HAS NO EYEBROWS! Thanks for pointing that out ShockDoc. I don't have any eyebrows either and for years this has been a source of great shame, but not anymore. I'm glad to be in such great company as the monster.
Ted Newsom	Lunk-- boy, are you in luck--	#12	[-]
Mar 26 07 11:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Look what I found for ya.
nightmarekey	Re: Lunk-- boy, are you in luck--	#13	[-]
Mar 26 07 11:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Those are CURVED eyebrows, Ted... The Monster had a Continuous Forehead Bulge... While I don't for one moment suggest a continuous "licorice effect" (not for Black & White cameras anyhow)...................
Lunkenstein	Re: Lunk-- boy, are you in luck--	#14	[-]
Mar 26 07 11:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks Ted. You're the best! Now I can have it both ways - Frankenstein monster or Groucho, depending on the social situation.
nightmarekey	Re: Nothing but the tooth	#15	[-]
Mar 26 07 11:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Those Chompers Pierce installed for Son Of Frankenstein probably did alot more good than just adding to his speech impediment. Those "chompers" were, to me, quite "over-the-top-comicbook-unnecessary". If anything, they detracted from what was otherwise a great piece of character work. His encore as Ygor in 1942 dispensed with the fangs, but unfortunately the script dispensed with much of the "earthy peasant character color" Lugosi tried so hard to instill in his original character. And it is a mark of Lugosi's artistry that he pretty much overcame those ridiculous dental excesses in 1938, and still managed a formidable "presence" among the sterling players of Waggner's & Kenton's later "minor opus".
nightmarekey	Re: Lunk-- boy, are you in luck--	#16	[-]
Mar 26 07 11:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Thanks Ted. You're the best! Now I can have it both ways - Frankenstein monster or Groucho, depending on the social situation. Or David Ferrie... (In case Oliver Stone is looking for players for a sequel to JFK---in a social situation, of course)...
captainmarvel1957	Re: Lunk-- boy, are you in luck--	#17	[-]
Mar 27 07 12:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Okay, Ted- So, what would Groucho Marx look like as The Frankenstein Monster? OR, what would the Monster look like done up like Groucho Marx? Show us that!
ShockDoc	Frankenbrow (not)	#18	[-]
Mar 27 07 12:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	And can you get us all an order of onion rings? Thanks!
Ted Newsom	Re: Frankenbrow (not)	#19	[-]
Mar 27 07 12:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	We have Theak to thank for half of this.
captainmarvel1957	Re: Frankenbrow (not)	#20	[-]
Mar 27 07 1:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, Uncle Ted! Now, Groucho as Frankenstein!! That means you'll have to take the eyebrows off!
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