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Mary Jeanette Moran, known as Peggy from a young age, was born on the 23rd of October, 1918 in Clinton, Iowa. Moving west with […]
Born in Vienna on the 14th of January, 1896, Hans J Salter trained at the city’s Academy of Music and served as assistant director […]
By 1940, over at Universal sequels were all the rage. The Mummy’s Hand went into production on the back of successful follow-ups to their […]
Of all Universal’s classic monsters, the Mummy was surely the one treated with the least respect, being mercilessly put out to graft in its […]
Hammer’s 1959 retelling of The Mummy took inspiration from the Universal movies which had gone before, but added a visceral new horror to its […]
Tom Tyler, the American actor best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1941 movie serial The Adventures of Captain Marvel, […]
George De Sylla Zucco, the English character actor who became a stalwart of B-picture horror films, was born on the 11th of January, 1886. […]
