Frigid Halloween Night

This has to be the coldest Halloween I've ever experienced. I decided to stay inside even though there was a "Trunk 'N Treat" party put on by the residents of Jamestown at the fire station. From what I read from the community Facebook page, it was a successful event.

But, it was enjoyable as I watched Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and House of Dracula from the latest edition of Universal's Dracula Legacy Collection.

Here's tonight's temperatures:

35th Anniversary of Glenn Strange's Passing

Thanks to Bryan Kendrick at the Universal Horror Films Facebook page, today is the 35th anniversary of the passing of actor Glenn Strange (August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973).

He played the Frankenstein Monster in three films and was in many westerns. He was Sam the bartender on television's Gunsmoke.

I remember his passing as it was around the time I was down in San Diego at the Town & Country Hotel for the California Republican Party State Convention.

Some Glenn Strange photo mementos at the Valley Relics Museum:

Jane Adams, R.I.P.

Above, Jane Adams in "The Ghost Wolf" episode of the Adventures of Superman in 1951.

Jane Adams, best known to genre fans as Nina, the hunchbacked lab assistant in Universal's House of Dracula (1945) and as Babette in the 1951 "The Ghost Wolf" episode of the Adventures of Superman, has died.

She passed away May 21 in Bellingham, Washington.

Above, Jane Adams and Glenn Strange in House of Dracula in 1945.

She was born Betty Jane Bierce in San Antonio, Texas on August 7, 1918 (or 1921, depending upon the source).

She also played Vicki Vale in the 1949 serial, Batman and Robin with Robert Lowery as Batman/Bruce Wayne.