115: Where the Monsters Came From (Bela & Boris Part 1)
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were two middle-aged, foreign, struggling actors who became huge stars thanks to
Dracula and
Frankenstein, the first two of a trend of monster movie hits released by Universal Studios during the 1930s. This season, weβll discuss their parallel but very different lives and careers. Today, weβll start by exploring where each man came from, what they were doing before they got to Universal, and why Universal began making monster movies in the first place.