Peter Boyle comedy "Young Frankenstein", in which, in an homage to "King Kong", the monster is placed onstage in top hat and tails, grunt-singing and dancing to the song "Puttin' on the Ritz". Boyle said at the time, "The Frankenstein monster I play is a baby. He's big and ugly and scary, but he's just been born, remember, and it's been traumatic, and to him the whole world is a brand new alien environment. That's how I'm playing it". Boyle met his wife, Loraine Alterman, on the set of "Young Frankenstein" while she was there as a reporter for "Rolling Stone". He
The House of Frankenstein (film) the monster and Niemann drown in quicksand. "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943) had been the first on-screen pairing of two Universal Studios monsters, but "House of Frankenstein" was the first multi-monster movie. Early drafts of the story reportedly involved more characters from the Universal stable, including the Mummy, the Ape Woman, the Mad Ghoul, and possibly the Invisible Man. Working titles—which included "Chamber of Horrors" (a reference to Lampini's travelling horror show) and "The Devil's Brood"—emphasized the multi-monster nature of the story. The multi-monster approach, which emphasized box office appeal over continuity, was used in "House of Dracula" the