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- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
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- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
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- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
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- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
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While official wisdom has it that William Alexander ‘Bud’ Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on the 2nd of October, 1895, his […]
Born Karl Lämmle on 17th January, 1867 in Laupheim, Württemberg, Carl Laemmle was one of the great pioneers of the American film industry, and […]
Born Julius Laemmle on 28th April, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois, Carl Laemmle Jr was the son of Universal Pictures founder, Carl Laemmle, and was […]
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Cedric Hardwicke – or, to be more correct, Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke – was born in the English town of Lye on the 19th […]
The acclaimed English novelist and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on the 7th of February 1812. While his seminal works of […]
English stage and film actor and director Charles Laughton was born on the 1st of July, 1899 in Scarborough, in Yorkshire’s North Riding, England. […]
