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Remember Gods and Monsters? This is the great horror classic that we observe James Whale on the set filming in Bill Condon’s loving biopic about the director. It’s the one that has Elsa Lanchester with that memorable shock of white streaked through her hair.
This article appears in June 11 • 1999 (Cover).
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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years. More by Marjorie Baumgarten
