One Sheet Poster
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Production Company: Universal Studios
Associate Producer: Bret Kelly
Director: Arthur Lubin
Screenplay: Curt Siodmak, Eric Taylor and Edmund L. Hartmann
Cinematography: Elwood Bordell
Art Director: Jack Otterson
Associate Art Director: Harold Mac Arthur
Musical Director: Hans J. Slater
Makeup: Jack P. Pierce
Gowns: Vera West
Set Direction: Russell A. Gausman
Sound Supervisor: Bernard B. Brown
Technician: Charles Carroll
Special Effects: John P. Fulton
Editor: Philip Cahn
Running Time: 69 minutes
Copyright number: LP9479, April 18, 1940
Cast:
Boris Karloff: Dr. Ernest Sovac
Bela Lugosi: Eric Marney
Stanley Ridges: Professor George Kingsley/Red Cannon
Anne Nagel: Sunny Rodgers
Anne Gwynne: Jean Sovac
Virginia Brissac: Margaret Kingsley
Edmund MacDonald: Frank Miller
Paul Fix: Kane
Murray Alper: Bellhop
Jack Mullhall: Bartender
Joe King: Police Chief
John Kelly: Taxi driver
James Craig: Reporter
Jerry Marlowe: Clerk
Edward McWade: Newspaper file attendant
Eddie Dunn: Detective Farnow
Robert Morgan: Hotel associate
Jessie Arnold: Nurse
Elfriede Borodin: Nurse
Tommy Conlon: Student
Franco Corsaro: Club Maitre d’
Keman Cripps: Detective
Raymond Bailey: Louis Devore
Eddie Dunn: Detective Farnow
Edward Earle: Detective
Harry Haydon: Prison doctor
Frank Jaquet: Fat man in bar
Ellen Lowe: Midtown Hotel maid
Jerry Malowe: Midtown Hotel clerk
David Oliver: Taxi driver
Wallace Reid, Jr.: Student
William Ruhl: G-Man
Frank Sheridan: Prison Chaplain
Edwin Stanley: Dr. Warner
Harry Tenbrook: Taxi driver
Emmett Vogan: Detective Carpenter
David Willock: Student
Victor Zimmerman: G-Man
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Showmen’s Trade Review, June 10, 1939
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Syndicated article, December, 1939
MAKE-UP MASTER DONS SANTA CLAUS RIG, FINALLY FOOLS SON
Not until he donned suit and whiskers of old St. Nick did Bela Lugosi, master of screen make-up, fool his son, Bela, Jr., on whom Lugosi has tested guises for the past year. Bela, Jr., who will be two years old on January 5, 1940, failed to penetrate his father’s disguise as Santa Claus until Lugosi, Sr., voluntarily de-bearded himself. Bela, Jr., who laughed with glee at his father’s grotesque get-up in the recent “Son of Frankenstein,” will soon be confronted with another disguise when his father dons a new make-up for Universal’s forthcoming “Friday the Thirteenth.”
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Evening Star, January 14, 1940
Greensboro Daily News, January 16, 1940
State Times Advocate, January 19, 1940
Showmen’s Trade Review, January 27, 1940
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Chicago Daily News, February 28, 1940
WORLD PREMIERES AT PALACE TOMORROW; STARS WILL ATTEND
Arrangements have been completed for Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Margaret Lindsay to make personal appearances at four of the performances at the Palace tomorrow in conjunction with the double world premiere of the Universal pictures, “Black Friday” and “The House of Seven Gables.”
Bela Lugosi, who is co-starred with Boris Karloff in “Black Friday,” will arrive in Chicago tomorrow morning from San Francisco to join Vincent Price, who is scheduled to arrive today from Hollywood, and Margaret Lindsay, also arriving today or tomorrow by plane from Massachusetts. Price and Miss Lindsay are starred in “The House of Seven Gables.”
The showing of these attractions is an event in entertainment circles of Chicago, in that for the first time in motion picture history two attractions are to be given their initial world showing at the same time and on the same program.
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Showman’s Trade Review, March 9, 1940
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Showmen’s Trade Review, March 16, 1940
Photoplay Magazine, April 1940
We Cover The Studios
Greensboro Daily News, April 6, 1940
Seattle Daily Times, April 12, 1940
San Jose Evening News, April 26, 1940
San Jose Evening News April 27, 1940
San Jose Evening News April 29, 1940[
San Jose Evening News May 1, 1940
Trenton Evening Times, May 3, 1940
Photoplay, May, 1940
The Times-Picayune, May 5, 1940
Canton Repository, May 25, 1940
Unknown British Magazine, May, 1940
Daily Illinois State Journal, May 29, 1940
Richmond Times Dispatch, June 6, 1940
Omaha World Herald, June 20, 1940
The Montreal Gazette, December 15, 1943
Independent Exhibitors Film Buletin, October 13, 1947
Toledo Blade, December 3, 1947
Unknown Newspaper
Toledo Blade, December 4, 1947
Unknown Providence, Rhode Island Newspaper
Idaho Statesman, April 21, 1948
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Lobby Cards
1947 Re-Release Lobby Cards
Pressbook
Herald
Ace Theatre, Chicago, May 19 – 28, 1940
Stills
Anne Gwynne admires Bela Lugosi’s stamp collection
Boris Karloff
Anne Nagel and Stanley Ridges (From the collection of Paul Seiler)
Bela Lugosi and Anne Nagel
Boris Karloff
Dr. Manly Hall “hypnotizes” Bela Lugosi in a promotional gimmick featured in the film’s trailer
Newspaper reports of Bela Lugosi’s “hypnotic” performance
Bela Lugosi and Dr. Manly Hall