(although not in any way based on Ed's original idea, the basic genre-blending premise is indeed there). The film was originally written to be a serious, non-horror, non-mad scientist, non-vampire role for the aging Bela Lugosi who desired to play at least ONE serious role that didn't require monsters or make up or fangs. Within an hour, Ed had made a coffin out cardboard, threw water on it to make it look aged, and got his shot. Suddenly Ed Wood became known as the worst director of all time, causing millions to search out his films and appreciate them for the works of art they truly are. After the dismal failure of Urge, Ed spent the next eighteen years writing sleazy novels and films such as Death of a Transvestite, Necromania, To Make a Homo, Shotgun Wedding, Raped in the Grass, Gun Runners, Bloodiest Sex Crimes of History, The Beach Bunnies, and Sex Museum. Thankfully, what the film lacks in acting, dialogue, and coherance, the film more than makes up for them with the amazing score provided, or more likely stolen, by the Chilean Symphony Orchestra. The bottom line is in the acting. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. So how does one fire their girlfriend and still maintain boyfriend and girlfriend status? She eventually became famous as the "Sexy Weather Girl" on television's Jack Parr Show. Verify and try again. Ed would get unused footage from newsreels and from other motion pictures, stock footage gathering dust in vaults, and added these shots into his own film to make the film seem longer and more professional. His use of shadows, fog, nursery rhymes, symbolism, and silence is just unmatched for any early fifties motion picture and adds to the mood of the film, making any watching of Glenda seem like a strange dream instead of what it was intended to be which was just a sleazy throwaway exploitation film. Reports vary regarding what Ed did with his life once he was discharged. The cops are ineffectual whinners. One day, a door-to-door Fuller Brush salesman knocked on his door trying to sell him various crap. And yes, he knew that it was going to be a transvestite/sex change film. Ed didn't know the first thing about riding a horse and yet this did not stop him from casting himself as ahorse-riding villian in the film. They had three children: Lady Kathleen Florence Mary Standhope (January 20, 1884 - June 1971); Charles Joseph Leicester Stanhope, 10th Earl of Harrington (October 9, 1887 - November 16, 1929); and Lieutenant Talbot FitzRoy Eden Stanhope (November 23, 1896 - May 9, 1915).Kathleen Emily Carter-Wood is the great great grandmother of Serena Alleyne Stanhope, the wife of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount of Linley the nephew of Queen Elizabeth. When Ed moved to Hollywood, the streets were clean and safe, it was okay to go out at night, and the whole city was alive with an abundance of positive creative energy. The final shot of the film, which sees the gangster shot dead in a hotel pool, is an idea liberally borrowed from Sunset Boulevard, released three years earlier. The final shot of the film, which sees the gangster shot dead in a hotel pool, is an idea liberally borrowed from Sunset Boulevard, released three years earlier. This was probably a direct attempt of Ed's to try to broaden his horizons and sort of show off as a director. Lasking the charisma and optomism needed to get backers for his projects, he was forced to work as a hired lackey for other directors and their low-rent sleaze pictures. You can talk about the other actors and about the "Kelton the Cop" trilogy and the well-rounded acting and the better screenwriting, but this is Bela's movie. You can still file a request but no one will be notified. This isn't something he did all the time during every film that he directed, as funny and as endearing as that image may seem to be. Kathy Wood was born on May 27, 1922 in British Columbia, Canada as Kathleen O'Hara. This was a good time. Ed's basic idea for The Ghoul Goes West, at one point refered to as The Phantom Ghoul, was to mix classic horror movies with classic western movies, an idea best represented by the Robert Rodrigues crime-shash-vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. The good guys are the aliens that the ignorant, hot-headed Americans destroy near the end of the film. Believeable, isn't it? Eddie, ever the cinematic carnie, realized this and tried as hard as he ever did to milk Lugosi to his absolute cinematic advantage, casting Bela as the a-typical mad scientist in the a-typical laboratory with the a-typical lightning illuminating the dark mansion lost in the foreboding marsh. scene in Burton's Woodian biopic. The Final Curtain. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. The National Portrait Gallery will NOT use your information to contact you or store for any other purpose than to investigate or display your contribution. One drink led to another and another and another, all the while Ed was laying his charm on thick, spinning wide-eyed tales of Hollywood motion picture magic. There seems to be set in society an arcetype Ed Wood film, one with a rubber octopus and cardboard tombstones and angira sweaters and spaceships on strings and men in drag. Being the athletic pretty boy that he was, in the scene where he is getting dressed it apparently took him twenty-seven takes just to correctly tie a tie. It was around this time that Ed met and fell in love with a beautiful young blonde actress named Dolores, a woman who would act in infamy in two of Ed's most notorious films, Jailbait and the now legendary Glen or Glenda. Edward D. Wood as savior must co-exist with Edward D. Wood the bad director for indeed one begat the other. Whatever the case, Ed moved to Hollywood in 1947 ready to make a name for himself. One falsehood that has been attached to the filming of Bride of the Monster is the idea that Eddie had originally meant to cast his girlfriend Dolores in the lead role of reporter Janet Lawton but recast actress Loretta King as the lead, mistakingly believing that she had $50,000 to invest. He was near the end of his rope. Eventually, Bela left and Ed stayed to also have one more drink. He had another near success with the incarnation hypnotism adventure love story film originally titled Queen of the Gorillas, later titled The Bride and the Beast. Ed, sad and alone, would later meet the woman who he was meant to spend the rest of his life with, his beloved Kathy. As the 40's came to a close and the 50's started, Ed found work at Universal Studios at their scheduling department and eventually worked his way up to the story department. 32% are in their 60s, while the average age is 62. And that's not what people look for in an Ed Wood film. The film was so strange, so loopy, so intriguingly different, that it was a mid-sized hit in theaters. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. It's a story of sadness and suffering, a story of one man's quest to promote a message of acceptance, and a story of suffering and eventually death, only to be justified after death with everlasting life in the minds and hearts of people worldwide. Ed Wood was assisted with the editing of the film by director Phil Tucker, the man who created the horribly atrocious film Robot Monster, which in all honesty is the REAL worst film of all time. LISTEN TO REV. Here, Ed learned to work with a small budget, improvise with what was available around him, and use his boundless enegry and positivity to create happiness for everyone around him. Another Wood trademark first used in Glenda is his liberal use of stock footage to lengthen the film. They make up a complex and yet highly possible story about Eddie being a money kluzt and hiring a woman solely because he thinks she would produce the film. connect. Sure he's had a lifetime of bad luck and mistakes, but even Ed Wood wasn't THAT stupid! Please Like other favourites! He couldn't find normal backing for the picture so he conned the Baptist Church of Beverly Hills to front the cash only if the cast get baptized. People Projects Discussions Surnames This is a movie that your mother or grandmother would have no problem seeing. It was somewhere around 1955 that Ed Wood entered a bar called the Cameo Room with Bela Lugosi. Eventually, they were kicked out. Sure this is an Edward D. Wood Jr. production with Eddie doing his Orson Wells schtick of writing, producing, and directing, but through and through this is obviously Bela's picture, Bela's baby, Bela's final curtain and a fitting end to his long and illustrious career, "Plan 9" nonwithstanding. Cowboy superstar Gene Autry came to Bela's aide in the days following his exit from the clinic, saying that he would star in the cowboy lead if Bela Lugosi would star as the villanous vampire. It should be noted that Bela was not a willing particpant in Glen or Glenda as the Tim Burton biopic suggests. It's well documented that at the Plan 9 premiere at the Carlton Theater on March 15th, 1957 everyone had a good laugh at the bad special effects and the film flubs and everyone had a good time. Now for the truth behind the legend. This edge-of-your-seat optomism and determination to create despide the obstacles that surrounds him is what set apart Ed from everyone else. Ed claimed that the show was passed up in favor of Wild Bill Hickock although this has never been verified. Very touching words from a heroic American cowboy ... until legend has it that Gene Autry actually had a chance to SEE one of Ed Wood's films, at which point the heroic American cowboy quietly backed out of the project. This is true, but Ed's military days weren't a joke. Watching Bride of the Monster, it's obvious that Ed was trying to stray from the introspective, crusading, uber-personal message of Glen and the unsuccessful smokey crime nior that was Jailbait and tried to construct a more modern, more readily available film. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. And Ed loved having a woman that would stay up all night with him and flip through his scrapbook and listen to his crazy stories. Ed's stock footage comes at you fast and reckless and almost out of control. Also, the script for Plan 9 is a shockingly liberal one if you look beyond the hip chat room film flubs. The film is universally known throughout society, thanks in part to the book "The Golden Turkey Aawards," as the worst movie of all time. And yet, to a Woodite, Jailbait seems to suggest what might have been, a look into some alternate dimension where this film was one of Ed's breakthrough films, the one that really seemed to solidify him as a major Hollywood player. One falsehood that has been attached to the filming of Bride of the Monster is the idea that Eddie had originally meant to cast his girlfriend Dolores in the lead role of reporter Janet Lawton but recast actress Loretta King as the lead, mistakingly believing that she had $50,000 to invest. For a science-fiction film released in 1959, that's some pretty rebellious stuff. Suddenly Ed Wood became known as the worst director of all time, causing millions to search out his films and appreciate them for the works of art they truly are. He also liked music and formed a small time music band called The Sunshine Mountaineers with his local boyhood friends. Please contact Find a Grave at support@findagrave.com if you need help resetting your password. And yes, he knew that it was going to be a transvestite/sex change film. Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7306 0055, (1860-1949), Wife of 9th Earl of Harrington, We are currently closed until spring 2023, while essential building works take place. This seemingly opened the door for him and led him towards directing a half hour television drama entitled The Sun Was Setting. Money being a constant source of problems for Ed, he never stopped looking for a potential backer. Stories include Ed joining a travelling carnival as the half man/half woman, Ed studying acting and creating writing at Northwestern University, Kingsmith School of Creative Arts, and the Frank Lloys Wright Institute, and Ed squatting in an abandoned theater in Chicago.
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