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 (1910 film) Frankenstein (1910 film) Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios. It was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. This 12-minute short film was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée. Described as "a liberal adaptation of Mrs. Shelley's famous story", the plot description in the "Edison Kinetogram" was: Dawley, working for the Edison Company, shot the film in three to four days at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City. The production