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Whale's and career
As knowledge of his sexual orientation has become more common, some of his films, Bride of Frankenstein in particular, have been interpreted as having a gay subtext and it has been claimed that Whale's refusal to remain in the closet led to the end of his career.
However, Whale's associates dismissed the notions that Whale's sexuality informed his work or that it cost him his career.
" While there have been suggestions that Whale's career was terminated because of homophobia, and Whale was supposedly dubbed " The Queen of Hollywood ", Harrington states that " nobody made a thing out of it as far as I could perceive ".
The expressionist influence lasted throughout Whale's career, with Whale's final film, Hello Out There, praised by Sight & Sound as " a virtuoso pattern of light and shade, a piece of fully blown expressionist filmmaking plonked down unceremoniously in the midst of neo-realism's heyday ".
Noting that Whale's reputation has been subsumed by the " Karloff cult ", Sarris cites Bride of Frankenstein as the " true gem " of the Frankenstein series and concludes that Whale's career " reflects the stylistic ambitions and dramatic disappointments of an expressionist in the studio-controlled Hollywood of the thirties ".

Whale's and into
Long disillusioned with their record label and its growing financial problems by this time, Kaylan and Volman resisted White Whale's efforts to turn the Turtles into something approaching an assembly-line pop act.
At the same time, all the world's Greythornes come together and transform into the mighty Whale, with Xelha's Greythorne Meemei becoming the Whale's brain.
Among his most famous works ( translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, German, Polish and Dutch ) are: La Tierra del Fuego se Apagó ( Tierra del Fuego Has Burnt Out, 1945 ), Golfo de Penas ( Gulf of Sorrow, 1957 ), El Camino de la Ballena ( The Whale's Path, 1962 ), El Guanaco Blanco ( The White Guanaco, 1980 ), and El Corazón del Témpano ( The Heart of the Iceberg, 1991 ).

Whale's and release
Whale's original cut of the film was given generally positive reviews but sometime between preview screenings and the film's general release Rogers capitulated to the Germans, ordering that cuts be made and additional scenes be shot and inserted.

Whale's and next
Whale's next film was The Kiss Before the Mirror ( 1933 ), a critical success but a box office failure.
Bride of Frankenstein was Whale's next project.
Rains came relatively late to film acting and his first screen test was a failure, but his distinctive voice won him the title role in James Whale's The Invisible Man ( 1933 ) when someone accidentally overheard his screen test being played in the next room.

Whale's and film
Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.
Retitled Remember Last Night ?, the film was one of Whale's personal favorites, but met with sharply divided reviews and commercial disinterest.
With knowledge of his sexuality becoming more common beginning in the 1970s, some film historians and gay studies scholars have detected homosexual themes in Whale's work, particularly in Bride of Frankenstein in which a number of the creative people associated with the cast, including Ernest Thesiger and Colin Clive, were alleged to be gay or bisexual.
** Release of James Whale's film of Frankenstein in New York.
James Whale's film The Man in the Iron Mask is very loosely adapted from Dumas ' novel and, by contrast, depicts Fouquet as the story's main villain, who tries to keep the existence of the King's twin brother a secret.
Although Colin Clive made only three horror films, Whale's two Frankenstein films and Mad Love ( 1935 ), he is widely regarded as one of the essential stars of the genre by many film buffs.
He is best known for his performance as Dr. Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's film Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).
And the real Thesiger is seen in the film as Brendan Fraser, as Whale's gardener, sits at a bar watching televised repeats of the original 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.
Whale's fellow director and friend Curtis Harrington helped The Old Dark House from becoming a lost film.
" Karl Williams of the film database Allmovie wrote that " by the 1960s attained a grail-like status among fans of director James Whale ... The Old Dark House came to be reconsidered a cult gem, part of the renewal of interest in Whale's talents many years after his creative peak ".

Whale's and Road
Studio interference, possibly spurred by political pressure from Nazi Germany, led to the film's being altered from Whale's vision and The Road Back was a critical and commercial failure.

Whale's and Back
The " Whale's Back ", a 2 mile stretch built atop an esker in Hancock County is one of the most notable features of the highway.
Whale's Back and Slide Lake

Whale's and 1937
Colin Clive ( 20 January 1900-25 June 1937 ) was an English stage and screen actor best remembered for his portrayal of Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.

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Tod Browning's Dracula ( 1931 ), with Bela Lugosi, was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein ( also 1931 ).
The sequence in which the El Brendel character is revived from the dead features the first screen appearance of the spectacular electrical equipment assembled by Kenneth Strickfaden, seen again and more famously in James Whale's Frankenstein ( 1931 ).

career and went
Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.
While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.
" Doc " went on to work for the FAA in Fort Worth after his flying career.
For his part, Merkle was doomed to endless criticism and vilification throughout his career for this lapse, which went down in history as " Merkle's Boner ".
Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.
Throughout his career, he went on to write many other songs primarily for children to achieve an iconic acceptance among Turkish children of 1980s and 1990s.
Brabham was the more successful driver and went to the United Kingdom in 1955 to further his racing career.
She later had a brief solo music career in the early 2000s after the dissolution of Hole, releasing America's Sweetheart ( 2004 ), and went through several rehab sentences and run-ins with the law until achieving sobriety.
Helton and Wilson — virtually the only experienced players on the team — struggled as well ; Helton hit just 20 homers, the fewest of his career, and missed the All-Star Game for the first time since 1999 and also went on the disabled list for the first time in his career.
In 1997, Earnhardt went winless for only the second time in his career.
The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", which went to number one.
Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial 1956 Baby Doll, and he went on to a prolific career in films, although rarely in a starring role.
Sinatra went on to win an Oscar for the performance, which revived his career.
" He went painting and bathing on the beach, and there he met Mabel and Francis Fierz who were later to influence his career.
However, her career went into sharp decline following this hit.
Subsequently, Napalm Death's former guitarist, Justin Broadrick, went on to a career in industrial metal with Godflesh.
" He describes how, when he was at boarding school, he set his chemistry lab on fire and, escaping through a hole in the floor, went home, believing his school career to be at an end.
After the play closed, however, she went to Hollywood, but insisted on continuing her career and they divorced in 1937.
He went on to enjoy a Test career spanning 15 years, in which he played in 102 matches.
It is also quite possible that Beethoven went off on his own to make a living, and only then returned after he had a stable career.
Belying his future career, baseball was Robinson's " worst sport " at UCLA ; he hit. 097 in his only season, although in his first game he went 4-for-4 and twice stole home.
Riefenstahl went on to have a prolific career as an actress in silent films.
Mack Sennett went into semi-retirement at the age of 55, having produced more than 1, 000 silent films and several dozen talkies during a 25-year career.

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