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CAST OF CHARACTERS
A CALENDER OF MOVIES: What to Watch When
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: December 7, 1941
ABBOTT & COSTELLO
AMERICAN CLASSIC MOVIES INTRODUCTIONS
ANIMALS AND THE MOVIES
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Black Dahlia Murder
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Evan Thompson's Bottle House
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Hollywood Sign
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Homes of the Stars
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Jean Harlow
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Maps and Floor Plans
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Pickfair
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Scotty's Castle
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: West Hollywood Historical Association
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Whimsy
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 1
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 2
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3
ASSORTED SHORT CLIPS
"B" MOVIES
THE BARRYMORE FAMILY
BIOGRAPHIES
BLOOPERS*
BOBBY "BORIS" PICKETT
BUSTER KEATON
CARLA LAEMMLE
CARTOONS
CHARLIE CHAN ANNEX
CHARLIE CHAN: Bloopers & Bonus Questions*
CHARLIE CHAN: The Books and Their Movies!
CHARLIE CHAN: Chang Apana
CHARLIE CHAN: Charlie's Sons
CHARLIE CHAN: Chemicals
CHARLIE CHAN: Chronology
CHARLIE CHAN: Cookbook, the Preview
CHARLIE CHAN: Cookbook
CHARLIE CHAN: Criminal?!?!*
CHARLIE CHAN: Extras
CHARLIE CHAN: Hawaii Steve
CHARLIE CHAN: Maps
CHARLIE CHAN: Maven and Rush Glick's Interview in . . . "Monster Bash"!
CHARLIE CHAN: Movie Eras
CHARLIE CHAN: Movie Notes
CHARLIE CHAN: Behind That Curtain (1929)
CHARLIE CHAN: Murder Rate
CHARLIE CHAN: On The Town
CHARLIE CHAN: Puzzles and Quizzes
CHARLIE CHAN: Quiz and Puzzle Answers
CHARLIE CHAN: Spookies
CHARLIE CHAN: Transportation
CHARLIE CHAN: Weather
CHILDREN'S CORNER
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Colleen's Moore's Fairy Castle
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Nancy Drew
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Nancy Drew (For Older Fans!)
CHILDREN'S CORNER: The Hardy Boys
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Paper Dolls
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Shirley Temple
COMEDIANS
COPPER CAPERS: FBI's and CIA's!
COSTUME DESIGNERS
DASHIELL HAMMETT
ETTA KIT
FASHIONS IN FILM
FOOD CENTRAL
FOOD CENTRAL: Recipes of the Week
FOOD CENTRAL: Recipes of the Week (Cookbook Form)
FOOD CENTRAL: Rejuvenating Diet
FILM NOIR
GENRES
GINGER ROGERS
HALLOWEEN FUN!
HAUNTS: Hollywood and Elsewhere
HISTORY: Hollywood and Elsewhere
HOLLYWOOD'S MARRY-GO-ROUNDS
HOLLYWOOD'S SCANDALS
HORROR - SCIENCE FICTION
HORROR - SCI FI: Annex
HORROR - SCI FI: The Atomic Submarine (1959)
HORROR - SCI FI: Bela Lugosi
HORROR - SCI FI: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
HORROR - SCI FI: Boris Karloff
HORROR - SCI FI: Dracula (1931)
HORROR - SCI FI: Frankenstein (1931)
HORROR - SCI FI: Gojira (1954) & Godzilla (1957)
HORROR - SCI FI: Invaders from Mars (1954)
HORROR - SCI FI: King Kong
HORROR - SCI FI: Lon Chaney
HORROR - SCI FI: Nifty Fifty's Creature Features
HORROR - SCI FI: Nightmare Theatre with Gorgon
HORROR - SCI FI: Ray Harryhausen
HORROR - SCI FI: Stephen King
HORROR - SCI FI: Universal Monster Genealogy
HORROR - SCI FI: Wes Davis
HORROR - SCI FI: The Witch's Dungeon
HUSTON FAMILY
INTERVIEWS
JONATHAN GEFFNER
JOSEPHINE BAKER
KAY LINAKER
LEI MAKING
LOCATIONS
MDs - RNs - RNBs - OH MY!
MAGIC IN MOVIES
MAKEUP ARTISTS
MARX BROTHERS
MARY ASTOR
MARY PICKFORD AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
MAVEN'S LIBRARY
MAVEN'S MAYHEM
MAVEN'S WEBSITES TO CHECK OUT
MUSIC
MUSIC: Dancers
MUSIC: The Lyrics
MYSTERIES
MYSTERIES: A Warning For Those Who Give Away The Endings!
MYSTERIES: Alfred Hitchcock
MYSTERIES: The Bat
MYSTERIES: D. W. Griffith vs. Mary Roberts Rinehart
MYSTERIES: Gum Shoes
MYSTERIES: Old Dark Houses
ORSON WELLES
PERRY MASON
QUIZZES AND PUZZLES
QUIZ ANSWERS
QUOTES From Great Hollywood Movies
QUOTES From Hollywood
QUOTES From Dorothy Parker
QUOTES Dorothy Parkers' "The Waltz"
REVIEWS
RONALD REAGAN
SAN FRANCISCO'S OLD CHINATOWN
SEX IN THE CINEMA
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
SILENTS
TAYLOR SCHULTZ: Hollywood Sculptor
VINCENT PRICE
VINCENT PRICE: Connoisseur
WHOZAT?
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
WHAT'S MY LINE?
METROPOLIS (1927)
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Click on the Picture to Go to Fritz Lang's Official Website

Just One Logo of Many from
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Universal Studios

Herein are the old standbys . . .
The horror movies!
From Dracula (1931) to
Mark of the Vampire (1935)  to
The Return of the Vampire (1944) . . . .
And a science fiction gem here and there . . . .
If it ain't here now . . .
just give Maven time!

   In case you need music to be scared with . . .
here's the theme to the 1959 The Blob!

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          What is the difference between horror movies and sciece fiction films?!  Good question!
          You can have horror in a Dracula (1931) without science fiction . . . Frankenstein (1931), with all the bells, whistles, a horrible monster and Tesla coils . . . or one of the nifty fifty monster movies like The Beast From 20,000 (1953) - which could have been a cousin of present day creatures like the Loch Ness Monster!
          Maven is too busy enjoying them to care what's which so she has put them together . . . .  First check out what's available in this section with more articles below that include . . . .

LIFE MASKS OF HORROR STARS

THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR

Here are Maven's tributes to the First Ladies of horror . . .
revised, yes, but still worth reading!

The First Ladies of Horror

First Lady of the Scream Queens

And some great horror/science fiction movie trailers!  Some are truly astounding . . . !
 
"The Astounding She Monster"
 
"Beginning of the End"
 
"The Black Scorpion"
 
"The Colossus of New York"
 

Universal Studio's Back Lot
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Including Their European City

How many old horror movies have you seen from Universal Studio?!  Lots, if you're anything like Maven!  Think you could recognized their back lot?!  Check these photographs out to see!

Universal Studio's Back Lot

Nosferatu (1922)
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Click on the Picture for the Link to the Complete Movie at www.youtube.com

Nosferatu (1922)
 
     Maven was rooting around her files and came across these links for Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (the 1922 German version of Bram Stoker's Dracula [1897]).
     The first two are links to the complete movie on the internet:

The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
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Click on photo for an article about the star, Robert Clarke

Maven has added a new page for Professor Wes Davis, who has been kind enough in the past to grant Maven an interview:  HORROR - SCI FI: Wes Davis.  One of the films represented in his exhibition at Seton Art Gallery is The Astounding She-Monster (1957) with Robert Clarke.  Clarke is also featured in Maven's interview

BELA LUGOSI: Hollywood's Dracula - An Interview with Gary Rhodes and Art Greenhaw

And check out these goodies!

AMC Introduction - The Mummy's Hand

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quickie Quiz

Jack Pierce and His Werewolf Makeup

Mad Scientists and Doctors

The Making of King Kong

The Munster Mansion . . . in Texas!

What is a Zombie? From "The Ghost Breakers" with Bob Hope

The Horror of The Loch Ness Monster
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aka "Nessie"!
And if you need a break . . . try this little quiz!

Do you know your desserts?!

What your dessert choice means.

  

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