Charlotte AUSTIN & Lance FULLER in THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST [1958, Allied Artists] Director: Adrian WEISS Screenplay: Edward D. WOOD, JR.

"Dan, do you realize we just witnessed a portion of your wife's previous existence, and her death in that existence?" -- Dr. Carl Reiner

 

“That marriage license cost me six bucks — you know, I can buy six wives for that in the middle of Africa.” -- Dan Fuller

 

 

Bride and the Beast , The

Allied Artists Pictures - 78 min

23 February 1958, Los Angeles ( RKO Hill Street )

Produced by Adrian Weiss and Louis Weiss

Director: Adrian Weiss

Screenplay: Edward D. Wood Jr.,

Original Story: Adrian Weiss

Stars: Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller and Johnny Roth

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The Bride and the Beast @ American Film Institute

Note: The working title of the film was Queen of the Gorillas .

Production Date: early Jan 1957

Premiere Information: San Diego opening: 29 Jan 1958

Release Date: Mar 1958

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The Bride and the Beast - trailer

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CLIPS

Bride and the Beast

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REVIEW---Boxoffice Magazine - February 17, 1958

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NEWSPAPER AD - Bride and the Beast , The

February 1958, Los Angeles ( RKO Hill Street )

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POSTER, theatrical ( original ) - Bride and the Beast , The

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Edward D. Wood Jr.

Ed Wood

Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0000248/

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0000248/miscsites

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WATCH ONLINE >>

 

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr. (1995)

89 min - Documentary

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Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (Video 1994)

51 min - Documentary

www.imdb.com/title/tt0144185/

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CHARLOTTE AUSTIN

 

" Her 1958 film The Bride and the Beast (1958),

written by Edward D. Wood Jr., was released on DVD, newly remastered, in the spring of 2002 by Retromedia. VCI's later DVD release of the movie featured an audio commentary with Austin, supporting player Slick Slavin, gorilla movie expert Bob Burns and interviewer Tom Weaver. "

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CHARLOTTE AUSTIN @ The Astounding B Monster

 

" Maybe the last thing Charlotte Austin would want to be remembered as is "Queen of the Gorillas." That was the working title of the film for which she may be known best, The Bride and the Beast. Exploitation filmmaker Adrian Weiss commissioned Hollywood fringe-dweller Ed Wood to script the low-budget shocker, in which Charlotte plays a newlywed whose simian genes beckon her to return to the jungle and abandon her understandably confused husband.

 

But there's more to Charlotte Austin than her brief film career would lead you to believe. She was named for the North Carolina city in which she was born, the daughter of Gene Austin, one of popular music's most unjustly underrated entertainers. Austin's recordings gave rise to the "crooning" craze that made stars of Crosby, Sinatra, Dick Haymes and many others. He also wrote numerous songs that have become pop music standards, My Blue Heaven and Lonesome Road among them. (Gene Austin died in 1972.)...

www.bmonster.com/profile32.html

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in

The Astounding B Monster Book [Paperback]

Marty Baumann

www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0972858547/qid=111...

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CHARLOTTE AUSTIN @ Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen - Biography and Photos

www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show.php?id=16

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CHARLOTTE AUSTIN @ Spooky Tom's Nightmare Mansion

www.spookytoms.com/Charlotte_Austin_Tribute.html

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CHARLOTTE AUSTIN @ " It Came from Horrorwood:

Interviews with Moviemakers in the Science Fiction and Horror Tradition "

By Tom Weaver [Paperback] McFarland & Company (October 2004)

www.amazon.com/Came-Horrorwood-Interviews-Moviemakers-Tra...

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www.oldies.com/product-view/BK9503.html

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www.angusrobertson.com.au/book/it-came-from-horrorwood-in...

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www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0786420693

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