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
Frankenstein (1931 film) by a surgical drape, Karloff's abdomen was otherwise exposed during the scene and the high-voltage arc "scissors" threw white-hot bits of metal when they were used to create flashes. The film opened in New York City at the Mayfair Theatre on December 4, 1931, and grossed $53,000 in one week. Florey and Lugosi were given the "Murders in the Rue Morgue" film, as a consolation. Lugosi would later go on to play Frankenstein's monster in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" a decade later, when his career was in decline (in the original shooting script the Monster spoke, cancelling Lugosi's initial