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
Son of Frankenstein with "The Ghost of Frankenstein" in 1942 in which Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the role of the Monster and Lugosi returned as Ygor; Lugosi himself would go on to play the Monster in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" in 1943, while Karloff would return to the franchise as another character in 1944's "House of Frankenstein". Karloff would not don the Monster makeup again for film until an episode of the TV series "Route 66" in the 1960s. Son of Frankenstein Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 horror film directed by Rowland V. Lee, and is the third entry in