![King Kong (RKO 1933)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/King-Kong-main-170x120.jpg)
Considered by many to be the greatest adventure movie ever made, King Kong had anything but a straightforward beginning, almost never seeing the light […]
![Fay Wray](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Wray-Fay_01-170x120.jpg)
Vina Fay Wray was born near Cardston, Alberta on the 15th of September, 1907, to an American mother and English father. Her early life […]
![Bedlam (RKO 1946)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Bedlam_main2-170x120.jpg)
Bedlam, the last in the series of Val Lewton’s stylish horror films for RKO, and the producer’s last collaboration with Boris Karloff, was released […]
![I Walked with a Zombie (RKO 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/I-walked-with-a-Zombie_main1-170x120.jpg)
The Val Lewton RKO shocker, I Walked with a Zombie, was released on the 30th of April, 1943. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, it was […]
![Boris Karloff](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Boris-Karloff_main-170x120.jpg)
The English gentleman of the classic horror film, Boris Karloff, was born William Henry Pratt on the 23rd of November, 1887, at number 36 […]
![Merian C Cooper](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Merian-C-Cooper_main-2-170x120.jpg)
Born in Jacksonville, Florida on the 24th of October, 1893, Merian Caldwell Cooper decided at an early age that he wanted to be an […]
![Rondo Hatton](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Rondo-Hatton_main-170x120.jpg)
Rondo Hatton was born on the 22nd of April, 1894 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Suffering from acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland, Hatton never […]