{"id":9276,"date":"2020-10-31T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2025-10-26T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:27:07","slug":"bela-lugosi-frankenstein-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2020\/10\/31\/bela-lugosi-frankenstein-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Bela Lugosi Nearly the Original Universal Studios Frankenstein’s Monster?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/b><\/u>: Bela Lugosi nearly played Frankenstein’s Monster, who would have looked dramatically different!<\/p>\n

I once asked my mother about the Outlander TV series. I had recalled that she had enjoyed the novels, so I recommended the TV series to her and she said she preferred not to watch it. When I asked why, she explained that she already had her vision of what the characters looked like and she wasn’t interested in seeing a conflicting version to spoil her own vision.<\/p>\n

The interesting thing about that is that is very much what DOES happen with popular film adaptations of famous novels. The film version becomes the definitive version, whether it matches the novel at all. In the case of Frankenstein’s Monster, Mary Shelley’s novel describes the character MUCH differently than the version that was played by Boris Karloff in 1931’s Frankenstein, and yet the Karloff version is now the iconic depiction of what Frankenstein’s Monster looks like.<\/p>\n

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