:25:01
having written the script
for the 1932 version of The Lodger.
:25:07
When Renee Carson arrived in America,
she discovered quickly
:25:10
that her accented English
was going to stand in her way.
:25:13
She did conquer it, and for the next four
years was a very successful radio actress
:25:18
on the verge of
a major film career at this time.
:25:21
In February 1943,
while Phantom was shooting,
:25:24
she fell in love, and married her husband,
who was in the air corps.
:25:28
Their honeymoon lasted three months.
She followed him from camp to camp.
:25:33
Then in May of 1943
he was shipped overseas.
:25:36
Six months later he was killed
when his plane was shot down.
:25:40
Two weeks late
another tragedy overtook Renee
:25:43
when she broke her back,
putting her in the hospital for a year.
:25:47
After securing a small part
in The Picture of Dorian Gray at MGM,
:25:50
she landed a contract
at 20th Century Fox,
:25:53
who put her in pictures like Shock
and The House on 92nd Street.
:25:57
Her last appearance in a film was in 1946,
:26:00
in Hitchcock's Notorious,
with Claude Rains,
:26:03
where she plays the drunken dancing girl
:26:05
at Ingrid Bergman's
bungalow party in reel one.
:26:08
Renee died in England in 1996.
:26:11
Arthur Lubin was adamant
:26:14
that Universal wanted Claude Rains to do
a full-face disfigured horror make-up.
:26:19
The way in which Claudin
receives a full faceful of acid
:26:22
suggests that they wanted
a much more elaborate disfigurement.
:26:26
Now here's the famous
Universal European street.
:26:29
All purpose, it could be Germany,
it could be Romania.
:26:31
In this case, it is Paris in the 1880s.
:26:35
The script for Phantom
originally provided a scene,
:26:38
which is likely not to have been filmed,
:26:40
where a brutish teamster
sees Claudin escaping
:26:44
and snares him with a buggy whip.
:26:47
Claudin is standing on a wall,
trying to escape over,
:26:50
and the whip wraps around
Claudin's neck like a noose.
:26:54
The teamster begins enjoying
the cruelty of this,
:26:57
and he's holding him splay-legged,
calling for help,