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Will the bride be beautiful or ghastly?
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Whale fools us with quick, progressively
closer cuts, deliberately non-matching,
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alternating from diffuse to crisp.
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He even has the actress' mouth
stuffed with wadding
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to distort and swell her features
for one flash cut.
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Dr Pretorius, bridesmaid to the bride.
Franz Waxman provides wedding bells.
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The script described Elsa's 'do'
as "curled close to her head,
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hanging straight and dark on either side."
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Keeping to the mummy idea,
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Whale and Jack Pierce memorably
designed this Nefertiti number.
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Lanchester's own hair is marcelled
and swept back on a wire cage.
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She looks like she has
stuck her finger in a socket.
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The white electric bolts from her temples
add the final exclamation points.
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Monster coiffure
would never be the same.
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Elsa's streaks and tips set a fashion craze
- for Rafaela Ottiano in The Devil-Doll,
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Ramsay Ames in The Mummy's Ghost,
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Humphrey Bogart
in The Return of Doctor X,
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even Boris Karloff himself
in The Walking Dead.
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Elsa Lanchester told Greg Mank
"Jack Pierce did really feel
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like he made these people, like he was
a god who created human beings."
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Lanchester elaborated in her memoirs:
"He had his own sanctum sanctorum,
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and as you entered
you did not 'go in', you 'entered'."
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"He said 'Good morning' first."
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"If I spoke first, he glared
and slightly showed his upper teeth."
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"He would be dressed in a full
hospital doctor's operating outfit."
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"At five in the morning,
this made me dislike him intensely."