Frankenstein
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TIL Mary Shelley published her novel “Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus” at 19 years old, its themes of birth and death reflecting the deaths of both her first infant child and sister within a short timeframe, followed by pregnancy with another child who she carried throughout the book’s writing.
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TIL that when the movie Frankenstein was first released in 1931, many of its scenes were considered too violent or controversial, leading many parts of the movie to be censored. In particular, the state Kansas required 32 scenes to be cut, which removed a literal half of the entire film.
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TIL that Mel Brooks thinks Young Frankenstein is his best film. However, he doesn’t think it’s his funniest. That crown goes to Blazing Saddles with The Producers being “hot on its heels.” All 3 films star Gene Wilder. Despite this successful pairing, Wilder never appeared in any other Brooks films
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TIL year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer. Cold rainy summer weather forced poets Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and their young lovers inside on vacation in Geneva. They told scary stories and Mary Godwin, Shelley’s lover and future wife, had a nightmare about Frankenstein and his monster.
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TIL that Universal Studios had a number of crossover films in which comedic due Abbott & Costello encountered Universal Monsters, starting with ‘Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein’. These were among the examples they would cite later to claim they invented a ‘cinematic universe’ before Marvel.
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