Frankenstein, featuring the English-born Boris Karloff as the mad scientist’s stitched-together creation, followed in November. Dracula, with its chilling lead performance by the Hungarian-born Béla Lugosi, arrived in February. Those efforts didn’t always translate into profits for Universal, which would prove a problem for Junior, and Universal, later in the decade - but in 1931, both found tremendous success by unleashing a string of horrors on an unsuspecting moviegoing public.
The son of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, the junior Laemmle had served as the studio’s head of production since 1928, helping the studio transition to the talkie era and earning acclaim for efforts like All Quiet on the Western Front and Waterloo Bridge. saw the future in 1931 and the future looked scary. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Universal PicturesĬarl Laemmle Jr.
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