January 26th, 2012
(via Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog: A FRANKENSTEINIA EXCLUSIVE! The Monster : Primo Carnera) Always formidable looking to an opponent, former heavyweight champion Primo Carnera, 6 feet, 1 inch and 280 pounds, will scare the cold cream and curlers off the average housewife with his portrayal of Frankenstein. Thus read the caption to this United Press Telephoto sent out to newspapers on February 2nd, 1957, promoting the February 5 broadcast of the NBC Matinee Theatre adaptation ofFrankenstein. The presentation, the network insisted, “will not follow the movie as done by Boris Karloff but does follow the novel”.

(via Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog: A FRANKENSTEINIA EXCLUSIVE! The Monster : Primo Carnera)

Always formidable looking to an opponent, former heavyweight champion Primo Carnera, 6 feet, 1 inch and 280 pounds, will scare the cold cream and curlers off the average housewife with his portrayal of Frankenstein.

Thus read the caption to this United Press Telephoto sent out to newspapers on February 2nd, 1957, promoting the February 5 broadcast of the NBC Matinee Theatre adaptation ofFrankenstein. The presentation, the network insisted, “will not follow the movie as done by Boris Karloff but does follow the novel”.

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