![The Mummy's Tomb (Universal 1942)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Mummys-Tomb-The_main-170x120.jpg)
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 […]
![Phantom of the Opera montage](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantoms2-170x120.jpg)
Of all our favourite classic monsters, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera has proved almost as enduring as Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster. Filmed […]
![Irving Thalberg](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Irving-Thalberg-170x120.jpg)
Film producer Irving Thalberg, who launched countless successful movie careers and helped to shape the movie industry as we know it today, was born […]
![Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Phantom-of-the-Opera_main-170x120.jpg)
Phantom of the Opera, Universal’s lavish 1943 Technicolor remake of the 1925 Chaney classic, was quite a departure from the studio’s usual classic monsters […]
![Erle C Kenton](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Erle-C-Kenton_main-170x120.jpg)
American director Erle C Kenton, who made more than a passing impression on the golden age of classic monsters, was born Erle Cauthorn Kenton […]
![Maria Ouspenskaya](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Maria-Ouspenskaya_main-170x120.jpg)
Maria Ouspenskaya, the willowy Eastern European actress who never weighed more than 90lb all her life, created one of the most satisfying characters in […]
![Virginia Christine](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Virginia-Christine_main-170x120.jpg)
American stage, film, television and voice-over actress Virginia Christine was born Virginia Christine Ricketts on the 5th of March, 1920, in the small Iowa […]