It's Alive!

And today, the 20th, is Colin Clive's birthday! I tell you, it's a season of the greats (I was born the 23rd). Dead at the age of 37. Tuberculosis (chain smoker) and severe alcoholism. The lucky performer of the best moment in the best horror movie.

Leslie Howard and Bela Lugosi were also considered for Clive's role. The head of Universal insisted that if Lugosi was going to be in the movie it was going to be as the Monster. But then James Whale came onto the project and everything turned great.