:14:03
If it wasn't for the scar around the neck,
:14:05
it would have looked like some
glamorous woman with a wacky hairstyle.
:14:09
I heard that Elsa Lanchester
wasn't too fond of Pierce,
:14:15
which I was sorry to hear.
:14:17
Someone who I idolise like Jack Pierce.
:14:20
I've heard from people that
he was a crotchety old guy.
:14:22
Elsa Lanchester talked about Jack Pierce,
:14:25
and she said that he was
an unusual personality.
:14:28
He really almost felt, in her opinion,
that he was a god
:14:33
who created these horror characters
that Universal marketed.
:14:38
In the morning, he'd be all dressed up
in a surgeon's smock
:14:41
as if he were about to
perform an operation.
:14:43
She said you went into his sanctum
sanctorum to have the make-up done,
:14:49
and you waited for him to say hello.
:14:51
You didn't say hello first.
He had to say hello first.
:14:54
So he was very, very much in control.
:14:56
He really was a divine presence within his
own realm of creating these make-ups.
:15:02
She was very funny. She talked about
the scar under the neck of the bride.
:15:08
She said that Jack Pierce
took the longest time to do this,
:15:11
that he went through this incredible ritual
of applying this scar,
:15:17
that she said hardly shows in the film.
:15:19
She said "I'm sure he could have bought
a scar for ten cents in a joke shop."
:15:23
But he had his own way of doing it,
:15:26
and he lovingly and painstakingly applied
this scar each morning to the bride.
:15:34
The idea of the hiss of the female monster
:15:36
came from she and Charles Laughton
feeding the swans at Regents Park.
:15:41
She said "When swans would come up, if
you went to feed them, that was all right,
:15:47
but if you got too near them or got near
their young, they would hiss."
:15:51
So she thought of this
incredible hiss of the swans
:15:54
and she incorporated it into the character.
:15:57
Frankenstein combined English
and American actors,