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) and starring Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This is also the sequel to "The Wolf Man", with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man. Karloff returned to the series, but not the role, in the follow-up, "House of Frankenstein" (1944), which also featured Chaney, and adds Dracula, played by John Carradine, and a hunchback for good measure. "House of Dracula" (1945) continued the theme of combining Universal's three most popular monsters. Many of the subsequent films which featured Frankenstein's monster demote the creature to a robotic henchman in someone else's plots, such as in its final Universal film appearance in