Black Friday (Universal Studios, 1940)

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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

Showmen’s Trade Review, June 10, 1939

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.”

Evening Star, January 14, 1940

Greensboro Daily News, January 16, 1940

State Times Advocate, January 19, 1940

Showmen’s Trade Review, January 27, 1940

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.

Showman’s Trade Review, March 9, 1940