17 December 2010

Ben Chapman, 1928 - 2008

“The reason they didn’t credit me in the movie, and this is crazy, is the studio wanted to give the impression, the illusion, that it was a real creature. If you see the original Frankenstein, Boris [Karloff] doesn’t get credit. It’s a question mark in the credit. I looked at the studio and asked if they thought the people were that stupid, and they said, ‘You’d be surprised what people believe’”
-- Ben Chapman, speaking of his role in the 1954 movie, Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Via Old Hollywood.

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