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The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I don't know if it's by chance, but I would like to think that I'm not hired for that talent alone.

— Elsa Lanchester On playing the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

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