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 Conquers the World Toho wanted to have King Kong fight their own monster Godzilla instead of the Frankenstein giant in the original story and, after working out a deal with Beck as well as RKO, the copyright holder of King Kong at the time, produced "King Kong vs. Godzilla". Influenced by the concept of the giant Frankenstein monster from the "King Kong vs. Prometheus" story, Toho planned on making "Frankenstein vs. Godzilla" as a follow up to "King Kong vs. Godzilla". Written in 1963 by Kimura, the story dealt with the heart of the original Frankenstein monster becoming irradiated and growing into a