Fellow Svengoolie SvenPals everywhere will be jumping for joy for his big broadcast of a classic mammoth Universal Studios monster masterpiece with several horror legends.
“Svengoolie” presents hsi big broadcast of “House of Dracula” (1945) with John Carradine
Truncated theatrical trailer for Erle C. Kenton‘s classic mammoth Universal Studios monster masterpiece, “House of Dracula” (1945); altered for the latter Realart Pictures theatrical re-release with John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Glenn Strange, Onslow Stevens, Martha O’Driscoll and Lionel Atwill.
The legendary Berywn/Chicago-based classic mammoth monster masterpiece feature film host will present his big broadcast of “House of Dracula” (1945); this Sat., Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Central on Me-TV.
The classic mammoth 1945 Universal Studios monster masterpiece production installment of “House of Dracula” was directed by veteran actor-turned-feature film director Erle C. Kenton. Kenton was part of pioneering silent feature film comedian-actor-producer Mack Sennett’s original pioneering “Keystone Kops” silent comedy players troupe for Sennett’s Keystone Film Company before going into the field of directing films; according to IMDB. Kenton also directed the classic mammoth Paramount Pictures feature film supernatural/sci-fi screen masterpiece adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel, “Island of Lost Souls” (1932) with Sir Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Leila Hyams, Kathleen “Panther Woman” Burke, Richard Arlen and young Alan Ladd.
Alongside “House of Dracula” (1945), many of Kenton’s classic mammoth Universal monster feature film masterpiece productions include “The Ghost of Frankenstein” (1942) with Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy and Dwight Frye; Kenton also worked on two classic mammoth Universal feature film comedy masterpieces with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, including “Who Done It?” (1942) with Louise Allbritton, Patric Knowles, Mary Wickes, Don Porter and William Bendix and “Pardon My Sarong” (1942) with Charles Fuqua, Hoppy Jones, Bill Kenny and Deek Watson of the legendary jazz vocal singing group The Four Ink Spots; Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, William Demarest (who later appeared on TV’s “My Three Sons” from 1965-72, a.k.a. the Ernie “Binge the Cringe” show to many fellow Me-TV Super Tooners/Super SvenPals), Leif Erickson and Herb Vigran. Kenton also directed his classic mammoth Universal mystery-thriller masterpiece production of “The Cat Creeps” (1946) with Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, Paul Kelly and Douglass Dumbrille.
The screenplay for Kenton’s classic mammoth 1945 Universal monster masterpiece installment production was written by veteran screenwriter Edward T. Lowe Jr. and the original story treatment for “House of Dracula” was written by veteran screenwriters Dwight V. Babcock and George Bricker. Lowe previously wrote the screenplay for Kenton’s earlier classic mammoth Universal monster masterpiece production, “House of Frankenstein” (1944). Babcock previously wrote the story treatment for Leslie Goodwins‘ classic mammoth Universal “Mummy” monster masterpiece installment with Lon Chaney Jr., Virginia Christine (who later appeared in Folgers Coffee commercials as “Mrs. Olson”), Peter Coe, Martin Kosleck and Holmes Herbert, “The Mummy’s Curse” (1944), Wallace Fox’s classic mammoth Universal “Inner Sanctum” mystery-thriller masterpiece adaptation with Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce and J. Edward Bromberg, “Pillow of Death” (1945), Jean Yarbrough‘s classic mammoth Universal werewolf monster masterpiece production with June Lockhart, Don Porter, Sara Haden, Lloyd Corrigan and Jan Wiley, “She-Wolf of London” (1946). Later in their screenwriting careers, Dwight V. Babcock and George Bricker contributed to the screenplay for Jean Yarbrough’s classic mammoth Universal thriller masterpiece production with Rondo Hatton, Virginia Grey, Virginia Christine, a pre-“Alan Napier” Alan Napier and Bill Goodwin, “House of Horrors” (1946).
“House of Dracula” was co-produced by veteran Universal Studios feature film music department supervisor Joseph Gershenson and veteran Universal producer Paul Malvern. Gershenson supervised the source orchestral music soundtrack scores for Jack Arnold’s classic Universal mammoth monster masterpiece with Julie Adams, Ricou Browning, Ben Chapman, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Nestor Paiva and Whit Bissell, “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (1954) and Orson Welles’ classic Universal film noir-drama masterpiece adaptation of Whit Masterson’s “Badge of Evil;” “Touch of Evil” (1958) with Janet Leigh, Welles, Charlton Heston, Joanna Moore, young Dennis Weaver and Ray Collins of TV’s “Perry Mason” fame. Gershenson also produced Edward Dein‘s classic mammoth Universal vampire-western monster masterpiece production of “Curse of the Undead” (1959) with Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley and John Hoyt. Paul Malvern also produced Erle C. Kenton’s classic mammoth Universal action/aviation drama masterpiece production with William Gargan, Peggy Moran and Edmund Lowe, “Flying Cadets” (1941).
This will mark Svengoolie’s seventh big coast-to-coast broadcast of “House of Dracula (1945) on Me-TV. He previously showcased Erle C, Kenton’s classic mammoth 1945 Universal monster masterpiece installment back in April 2011* as a big coast-to-coast broadcast premiere and as regular big broadcasts back in July 2012*, June 2013, Feb. 2014, July 2016 and April 2019.
In Sven’s home area of Berwyn/Chicago, Illinois; he previously showcased “House of Dracula” (1945) during his days as the “Son of Svengoolie” on WFLD during a five-and-a-half-hour edition of Sven/Son of Sven’s big broadcast on Halloween night 1979, titled “Son of Svengoolie: Halloween Draculathon;” which also included Sven/Son of Sven’s big broadcasts of the classic mammoth Tod Browning–Karl Freund-Universal vampire monster masterpiece with Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan and David Manners, “Dracula” (1931) and Lambert Hillyer‘s classic mammoth Universal “Dracula” monster masterpiece sequel with Gloria Holden, Van Sloan and Otto Kruger, “Dracula’s Daughter” (1936); according to the official YouTube site of Berwyn/Chicago Television preservationist Rick Klein’s FuzzyMemoriesTV: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television. Also in Sven’s home area of Berwyn/Chicago, he also previously showcased Erle C. Kenton’s classic mammoth 1945 Universal monster masterpiece as a Berwyn/Chicago big broadcast on his hometown TV station, WCIU-TV 26 back in 2007; according to IMDB.
Who was in “House of Dracula” (1945)?
The players who appeared in “House of Dracula” (1945) were John Carradine (as Count Dracula, a.k.a. Baron Latos), Lon Chaney Jr. (as Larry Talbot/the “Wolf Man”), Glenn Strange (as Frankenstein’s monster), Jane Adams (as Nina), Lionel Atwill (as Inspector Holtz), Martha O’Driscoll as Miliza Morelle, Onslow Stevens (as Dr. Franz Edelmann), Skelton Knaggs (as Steinmuhl), Ludwig Stossel (as Siegfried), Jane Nigh and Harry Lamont (in uncredited roles as villagers); Joseph E. Bernard (in an uncredited role as Brahams, the Coroner), Fred Cordova and Carey Harrison (in uncredited roles as Gendarmes), Gregory Marshall (in an uncredited roles as Johannes) and uncredited “flashback”/”dream sequence” stock footage cameos of Boris Karloff (in his earlier Universal classic mammoth “Frankenstein” monster masterpiece appearances).
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