Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Two vintage photographs of Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's Monster, for the 1943 film. One photograph with a provenance label on the verso.

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

The first of Universal's "monster rally films," which incorporated seemingly disparate Universal monsters into a single narrative, and the only film to feature Lugosi as the monster, originally made famous by Boris Karloff in the 1931 film "Frankenstein."

Accidentally revived by grave robbers,"wolf man" Lawrence Talbot, seeks out Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of finding a cure, only to discover the doctor has died but finds his creature still very much alive.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

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