In 1948, Universal Studios decided to combine their most popular comedy team with their top money-making monsters. There is much to write about this all-time classic comedy-horror film, but here the focus will be on the two, and only, females in the entire cast (unless you want to count Helen Spring’s very small part as the lady picking up her grip at the baggage counter).
(Bela Lugosi), being let to the masquerade ball.
Lenore Aubert played the beautiful and shady Dr. Sandra Mornay, who seduced Lou for his “mind.” She also appeared in Abbot and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, released in 1949. Her final film was the 1952 French comedy Une fille sur la route (A Girl on the Road). After she retired from acting, she lived a life out of the spotlight, in which she and her husband started a garment business in New York. She passed away in 1993. The best, if not only, interview she gave after her film career was conducted by Jim McPherson in August 1987 for the Toronto Sun. It can be viewed here.
from the film. An interesting footnote is that this was only the second and final time Bela Lugosi
played Count Dracula, and no explanation was given for his resurrection. (The Count was killed
at the end of the 1931 Universal classic, Dracula.)
Jane Randolph was no stranger to horror films when she appeared as insurance investigator Joan Raymond in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. She had appeared in the 1942 RKO horror Cat People and its 1944 sequel, The Curse of the Cat People. She married a wealthy socialite the same year that Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was released, and retired from acting. Unless you include an uncredited, non speaking role as an extra in the 1955 film That Lady … Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was her final film appearance. She passed away in 2009 in Gstaad, Switzerland at the age of 94.
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Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Chris flirted with the music business there and in Nashville before joining the U.S. Army and serving in South Korea. He remained in Asia for several years afterwards, teaching English, traveling, and covering the regional entertainment scenes. Currently in a mindset between Seoul and San Francisco, besides Idol Features, you can also catch his writings in the print edition of the monthly magazine, Effective.
Too bad Jane Randolph didn’t do any more films after this. She was a real stunner. Not surprised a rich guy swooped her up. http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t353874-jane-randolph.html