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	James Whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whale was born in Dudley, England, the sixth of the seven children of a blast furnaceman and a nurse.
		Whale was also responsible for such major films as Waterloo Bridge, (the 1931 version, not the more frequently shown 1940 one with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor), The Old Dark House (1932), Show Boat (the 1936 version), and The Man in the Iron Mask, which he made for independent producer Edward Small.
		Whale is the subject of the novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram, which was the basis for the 1998 film Gods and Monsters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Whale (785 words)

	James Whale
		James Whale (July 22, 1896-May 29, 1957) was a film director.
		Whale is the subject of the novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram[?], which was the basis for the film.
		James Whale is also the name of a UK radio and television broadcaster.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/James_Whale.html (141 words)

	Articles > James Whale
		Although James Whale directed over 20 movies from 1930 to 1941 in a number of different genres, including the musical "Show Boat", he is best known for directing the four stylish gothic/horror films "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Old Dark House" (1932), "The Invisible Man" (1933), and "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).
		Whale was given a minuscule, "B" movie budget, and the script and casting were handled by the movie's producer, Ken Goldsmith.
		It was here that James Whale, "found himself devoting his time to the production of plays, for which he could design and paint scenery, act, and participate in the writing of original material." The plays were very popular, and Whale found the enthusiasm of the audience intoxicating.
	www.pictureshowman.com /articles_personalities_whale.cfm (1613 words)

	Monster Maker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Director James Whale, dressed to the nines and seated next to his intoxicatingly blue swimming pool, graciously greets a starstruck interviewer.
		Whale was the director and creative force behind two indelible films -- Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) -- whose imagery continues to haunt the pop culture landscape.
		Whale, who had suffered a series of increasingly debilitating strokes, left a suicide note, which was suppressed by his longtime lover, producer David Lewis.
	www.metrotimes.com /movies/features/19/11Gods.html (1209 words)

	The monstrous works of James Whale
		Whale's stories move and intrigue the young man, while for the director it is Clay's ability to mind that tantalizes him even more than sex appeal.
		However, Whale is ultimately inconsolable in the grief and anger he feels over his wretched physical condition and the joy he feels eluded him in life.
		Whale longs for his former fame not just for the sake of celebrity, but for the freedom of mind and body he associates with it.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V135/N44/03-monstr.44d.html (1185 words)

	James Whale: His Life and Work
		James Whale's name came back into the general publics eye, when Christopher Bram's novel Father of Frankenstein was adapted into the film Gods and Monsters.
		James Whale was born on July 21, 1889 in Dudley, Worcester, England to CCC Whale, an iron worker, and Sarah Whale, a nurse.
		Whale was afraid of water and he never used the pool or even went near it.
	www.csun.edu /~erl15454/whale.html (716 words)

	James Whale by James Curtis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Whale's gold embossed name standing out in the Cinema Section of the bookstore I decided that this was an essential purchase.
		James Curtis' allegiance to Whale's genius runs deep and he quite rightly maintains that his best works were his horror films, but he is keen to point out that the director's work outside of the genre should not be dismissed.
		Using this as a starting block, Whale attempted to prove himself worthy in other areas and his subsequent work for Universal showed the world that he was a director of considerable talent, displaying a penchant for plot development, camera placement, and above all his choice of actors for principal roles.
	www.missinglinkclassichorror.co.uk /whale.htm (357 words)

	James Whale
		Whale's other movies, even his successful version of "Show Boat," are mostly forgotten, but people still watch "Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein" with pleasure, and the look of the monster -- the squared-off head, the neck bolts -- is part of the visual iconography of the century.
		Whale was a painter before he was a stage and film director, and his eye for design is part of what makes his films so memorable.
		The mix of beauty, perversity, wit and fear in Whale's monster pictures is the goal that every horror director worth his salt has aspired to since.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/movies/features/jameswhale.htm (947 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Whale, James
		Director James Whale is best remembered for his four stylish horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
		Whale was born into a working class family in Dudley, England, probably on July 22, 1889.
		Writer, director, and producer Clive Barker is best known for his horror fiction and movies, but is also a prolific painter and illustrator, as well as a developer of comic books and computer games.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/whale_j.html (1007 words)

	Knitting Circle James Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Whale bought a house in Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades, between Beverly Hills and Malibu, and David Lewis moved in with him.
		James Whale eventually lost interest in the film industry when he was only offered weak scripts over which he had little creative control.
		James Whale was largely forgotten by the film industry in his later years, and he spent his time painting.
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	James Whale Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Whale came from a very poor family but, being bright, sensitive and ambitious, he was determined to find an outlet for his quiet, insistent need for self-expression.
		Whale had become one of a handful of directors in the studio system to attain such unusual control over his personal projects, but as long as the box office responded, Carl Laemmle Sr.
		Whale traveled abroad a great deal as his partnership with Lewis (though not their friendship) ended after 20 years and he met Pierre Fogel, who lived with him from the early 50s on.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/197083 (2106 words)

	The Films of James Whale
		The other aspect of Whale's staging around tables and staircases is that it tends to give a sense of 3D space to his images.
		Whale was a stage director in Britain long before he entered the movies.
		Whale's close-ups tend to include a good deal of background, as well as the actor's upper body.
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	James Whale
		James Whale is certainly a known quantity both inside and outside of academic circles and it is readily acknowledged that he was a “great” director.
		Whale's interest in the possibilities of cinema combined such qualities of the theatre with Brechtian cinematic techniques such as his breaking of the “30 degree rule” of continuity editing, thus calling attention to the cuts and camera placement at the same repeated angles.
		Whale understood these types from his upbringing; for all of the dishy and aristocratically bitchy hints of wit that have been so often noted in his work, he finds these working-class and regional types endearing and valid, and he does not condescend to them.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/05/whale.html (7569 words)

	James Whale @ Filmbug
		James Whale (July 22, 1896-May 29, 1957) was a Hollywood film director.
		Whale procrastinated from sending his men over the top of their trench and into No Man's Land for a long time and was succesful in saving their lives.
		A memorial statue was erected for Whale in 2002 in the grounds of a new multiplex cinema of his home town, Dudley.
	www.filmbug.com /db/27279 (403 words)

	Gods and Monsters (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When she has turned the TV off and looks back at James, we see the towel lying neatly on the left side of the table.
		I was also very pleased to see the film draw Whale's Great War experiences into focus (although in less detail than I would have liked), and make them the central point to his life and career, and, as he is dying, his misery.
		Whale also bitterly recalls his youth and the feeling of being trapped in the English caste system in several scenes during a prior "family values" generation.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0120684 (528 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Whale (Ian McKellen, Richard III), a once-renowned director of such films as The Bride of Frankenstein and Showboat who has since left the Hollywood scene, has retuned home after suffering a stroke, full of the realization that he is nearing the end of his life.
		As Whale confronts his memories, both pleasant and horrifying, he begins to take an interest in his new gardener, Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser, The Mummy), a young (and very heterosexual) man whose own life seems to be lacking in direction and who is in many ways the polar opposite of the openly gay director.
		McKellen, however, recognizes the fact that while Whale’s flamboyance and homosexuality are indeed a very important part of his persona, they are not the total man. A man confronting the early signs of dementia and his impending mortality faces the same inner demons no matter what his sexual preferences may be.
	www.ziggysvideorealm.com /reviews/godsandmonsters.html (1574 words)

	The James Whale Nexus
		James Whale entry in the Internet Movie Database is the definitive basic filmography with all entries hyperlinked to complete cast and crew lists, which in turn are hyperlinked to the participants' other credits, and so on.
		James Whale: A Biography of the Would-Be Gentleman.
		Excellent observations on how Whale shaped the final form of his films which becomes, then, an analysis of to what extent Whale can genuinely be considered the auteur of the films he directed.
	www.jameswhale.com (482 words)

	EI > Interviews > Curtis Harrington
		Veteran horror and suspense genre director Curtis Harrington is unique in the film world in that he began making experimental and avant garde films with other cutting edge filmmakers as Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren during the post WW II era.
		And so, the director of "Gods and Monsters," Bill Condon who is a good friend of mine arraigned for me to spend some time with Ian McClellan, and I spent a whole afternoon with him talking about James Whale.
		James said that one day he was sitting in his office and an emissary from the makeup department at Universal came to his office and said "Mr.
	www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/curtisharrington.php (5475 words)

	James Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Halloween just wouldn't be the same without the four holiday staples James Whale directed in the 1930s: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), and, perhaps his greatest, The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
		Whale's brilliant versatility is evident in an array of other fine films including the original versions of Journey's End (1930), Waterloo Bridge (1931), Showboat (1936), and The Man In The Iron Mask (1939).
		Whale retired from film in 1942 to become a painter, and mysteriously drowned in his Pacific Palisades swimming pool in 1957.
	www.godsandmonsters.net /biojw.htm (252 words)

	James Whale (1889 - 1957)
		Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in James Whale's 1935 The Bride of Frankenstein
		James Whale (July 22, 1889 - May 29, 1957) was a Hollywood film director, best known for his work in the horror genre, making such momentous and iconic pictures as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man.
		Many suggest that there are homosexual themes and discourses in his motion pictures and as a result his biographies are considered noteworthy in gay and lesbian studies.
	www.jahsonic.com /JamesWhale.html (123 words)

	Amazon.com: James Whale : A New World of Gods and Monsters: Books: James Curtis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Whale, a British expatriate who made his way to Hollywood just as films were making the transition to the talkies, directed both the original Frankenstein (1931) and its sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein (1936), for Universal Pictures.
		James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters is not a revision of that book, however, but a substantial reworking involving much in the way of new research.
		Whale's life story is emblematic of an entire generation of European émigrés who made critical artistic contributions to American film only to find themselves in ultimate obscurity.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0571192858?v=glance (1918 words)

	Cary Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These performances solidified his appeal, and The Philadelphia Story, with Hepburn and James Stewart, presented his best-known screen role: the charming if sometimes unreliable man, formerly married to an intelligent and strong-willed woman who first divorced him, then realized that he was — with all his faults — irresistible.
		Authors Marc Elliot, Charles Higham and Roy Moseley consider Grant to have been bisexual, with Higham and Moseley claiming that Grant and Scott were seen kissing in a public carpark outside a social function both attended in the 1960s.
		The character of James Bond was loosely modeled on Grant, and he was even offered the part in 1962's Dr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cary_Grant (2156 words)

	James Whale
		Author and director of several distinguished horror films including Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein.
		Whale retired from film in the 1950's to pursue painting, and eventually committed suicide.
		The 1998 film Gods and Monsters is based on the end of his life.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/jeffreys/GayandLesbianPerformance/gay101/jw.htm (43 words)

	James Whale
		James Whale directed some of the most stylish movies of the 1930s, but he was most successful in a genre he virtually invented.
		James Curtis has written the definitive life of James Whale, taking him from poverty in rural England to the squalor of a German prison camp, to the excitement of London’s West End, and ultimately to Hollywood, where he profoundly influenced several generations of filmmakers.
		James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters is a fascinating and exhaustive study of Hollywood’s most unique and movie (and monster) maker.” —William J. Mann, Lambda Book Report
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/C/curtis_james.html (306 words)

	james whale \| biography (1889-1957)
		James Whale is a notable figure in a limited but rich strain: of Englishmen who went to direct films in America.
		His films fluctuate wildly, and it is all too clear that some sequences engrossed him, while on others he didn't give a damn.
		Whale started his professional life as a newspaper cartoonist before turning to acting during his time as a prisoner in World War I. From acting, he turned to set design and then to directing, and went to Hollywood in 1930 for the screen version of his stage hit
	www.leninimports.com /james_whale.html (421 words)

	James Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Whale, impressed with his work in The Criminal Code (1931), chose Boris Karloff to play the part of the Monster.
		Whale, Karloff, and Colin Clive worked together four years later in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), although he did not work on the third Universal movie, Son of Frankenstein (1939).
		Whale is played by Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (1998), Bill Condon's story of the days before Whale's suicide by drowning.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Pop/whale.html (107 words)

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