Frankenstein (1931 film) the deliberately farcical "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Though it is unrelated to the Universal series, the later "Frankenstein 1970" has the scientist Frankenstein, here played by Karloff, animate the Monster using a nuclear reactor. Although Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant is often referred to as "Igor" in descriptions of the films, he is not so called in the earliest films. In both "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", Frankenstein has an assistant who is played both times by Dwight Frye who is crippled. In the original 1931 film the character is named "Fritz" who is hunchbacked and walks with the aid
Frankenstein Rover", 12 June 1844, mentioned "the maker of poor Frankenstein." After the release of Whale's cinematic "Frankenstein", the public at large began speaking of the creature itself as "Frankenstein". This also occurs in Frankenstein films, including "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) and several subsequent films, as well as in film titles such as "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein". Furthermore, the 1939 film "Son of Frankenstein" introduced an evil laboratory assistant, Ygor (Bela Lugosi), who never existed in the original narrative. Mary Shelley maintained that she derived the name "Frankenstein" from a dream-vision. Despite her public claims of originality, however, a number