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The make-up for the Bride of
Frankenstein is an absolute masterpiece.
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It's the only iconic female monster
to ever come out of the movies.
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I mean, if you were to think of
a classic female monster,
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it's the Bride of Frankenstein
that comes to mind.
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The Elsa Lanchester make-up was
very different from the Karloff make-up.
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I'm sure what they wanted to do
was have her attractive.
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You didn't want to have
a hideous woman monster.
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I don't know if it was
an executive decision or what.
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"We can't have an ugly woman monster."
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So they came up with this...
again, another icon.
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You think of the Bride of Frankenstein,
everybody knows that wacky hairstyle.
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It had that Egyptian Nefertiti look to it.
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They had this wire cage on her head and
that was really her hair mixed in with it.
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They probably filled it in
with some crepe wool.
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And the white streaks,
the crazy white streaks.
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Yet she was very made-up, almost
wore basically a glamour make-up.
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If it wasn't for the scar around the neck,
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it would have looked like some
glamorous woman with a wacky hairstyle.
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I heard that Elsa Lanchester
wasn't too fond of Pierce,
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which I was sorry to hear.
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Someone who I idolise like Jack Pierce.
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I've heard from people that
he was a crotchety old guy.
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Elsa Lanchester talked about Jack Pierce,
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and she said that he was
an unusual personality.
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He really almost felt, in her opinion,
that he was a god
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who created these horror characters
that Universal marketed.
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In the morning, he'd be all dressed up
in a surgeon's smock
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as if he were about to
perform an operation.
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She said you went into his sanctum
sanctorum to have the make-up done,
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and you waited for him to say hello.
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You didn't say hello first.
He had to say hello first.
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So he was very, very much in control.
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He really was a divine presence within his
own realm of creating these make-ups.