The Bride of Frankenstein - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[carla]

In the original film, Frankenstein screams, "It's alive!" when the monster first moves on his own. Here, he says, "She's alive!" when the bride moves.

[maureen]

Many argue that Frankenstein ought to be called "the monster" and not "Frankenstein", however this second film's title, Bride of Frankenstein (1935) settles this debate once and for all: the monster is nicknamed by his creator's last name, and is simply known as "Frankenstein", since "the bride" was created for him, and not for his doctor creator.

[nicholas]

James Whale was so set on having O.P. Heggie play the blind hermit that he shut down production from February 19 to March 2, 1935 while waiting for Heggie to finish a production at RKO.

[richard]

Director James Whale originally did not want to do a sequel to Frankenstein (1931). For a time, Universal considered producing a sequel without Whale's involvement. One possible story included an educated monster continuing Henry's research, while another chronicled Henry's creation of a death ray on the eve of a world war. However, after 4 years of badgering by Universal, Whale agreed to do the film.

[richard]

The novella by Michael Egremont, published at the time of the film's 1935 release, included several scenes not in the film, expanding on characters and situations -and reveals the surname of "Little Maria" as Kramer.

[toni]

Colin Clive and Boris Karloff are the only actors to play they same characters they played in the original Frankenstein (1931).

[ronnie]

As a result of audience reactions from the film's preview screenings during the first week of April 1935, the film was extensively re-edited. Many scenes were deleted and trimmed, and at least one, the scene where the Monster stumbles into the Gypsy Camp, was added in. As a result of the editing, the original uncut film was approx. 15 minutes longer than its official release length of 75 minutes.

[morris]

Censors caused Pretorious' derogatory line about "fairy tales" to be changed to "Bible stories," but once they saw the sneering contempt which Ernest Thesiger loaded into his delivery of these two words, they wished they had left the original script unchanged.