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All right/ I'll show you.
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There's a souvenir for you.
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And one for you.
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I'll show you who I am and what I am.
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How do you like that, eh?
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Whale directed some stylish non-horror
films for Universal in the early '30s,
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including By Candlelight
in the manner of Lubitsch,
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an adaptation of Galsworthy's
One More River,
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and a screwball comedy mystery
Remember Last Night?
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He always had very mixed feelings
about his horror films.
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He liked them, but he wanted
to be an A-list director.
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He wanted to make
the big-money projects,
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like John Stahl at Universal did.
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And, curiously enough,
who remembers who John Stahl was?
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But we all remember the movies
made by James Whale.
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Junior Laemmle, who was
the general manager at Universal,
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had enormous respect for Whale.
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I think that he felt that certainly
what Whale had done
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with Frankenstein, The Old Dark House,
The Invisible Man,
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with the other non-horror-genre films
that he had done,
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showed a great stylist at work.
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Although Junior Laemmle himself
was not a creative man,
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he had a very instinctive feel, I think,
for something that was good.
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I think he felt James Whale
was the director at Universal
:06:31
who probably had the best chance
of putting Universal on par with MGM,
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and with Warner Bros,
and with the big boys in Hollywood.
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So he really gave him free rein to do
whatever he wanted with the picture.
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After rejecting several scripts
for the Frankenstein sequel,
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Whale took personal control
over the screenplay's development.
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The fact that Whale didn't especially want
to make the film, and then agreed to,
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prompted him to offer ideas for the script
to the writers. Suggest things.