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'Frankenstein' by the book, Hallmark-style.(Suburban Living)(TV/Radio)
From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20041005
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Byline: Ted Cox
Anyone who admires Mary Shelley's great tragic novel "Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus" has to be a bit troubled over how the tale has mutated in U.S. popular culture.
In the hands of Boris Karloff's lumbering portrayal, the monster took center stage in James Whale's original 1931 movie version, and it only got worse from there.
The sequel, "The Bride of Frankenstein," deserves credit for bringing Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's tale outside the tale to light - how it originated as a ghost story told to her husband, Percy Shelley, and the poet ...
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