Famous Monsters of Filmland #34 August 1965 cover painting by Maurice Whitman of Fredric March as Mr Hyde 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #34

Aug-65 • Maurice Whitman
Inside This Issue

A Maurice Whitman cover fronts #34, which crowns the winners of FM’s $1,000 amateur monster-movie contest. Inside, a survey of the many screen versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and “Prince of Darkness,” Barry Brown’s poignant piece on the genre’s actors who died young.

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Fredric March's Mr. Hyde — leering, degenerate, magnificently horrible — painted for a cover that captures everything unsettling about the 1931 Oscar-winning transformation.

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Fredric March as Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931), painted by Maurice Whitman

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FM 34 (Aug 1965) is the issue that announces the winners of FM's thousand dollar amateur monster movie contest, a whole backyard filmmaking culture decades before anyone could upload a frame; rare Maurice Whitman cover of Fredric March's Hyde, the first horror performance to take Best Actor (a one-vote tie with Wallace Beery)

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Contents

  • Don't Be a Droop Art
  • Future Fright Films
  • Cheers Chaney
  • Horrors of Spider Island
  • $1000 Contest Prize Winners, Amateur Monster Movie Makers
  • The Stone Men Strike
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Prince of Darkness
  • Headlines from Horrorsville
  • The Change of the Leech Woman
  • Mixed Monsters
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Recurring Departments

  • Mystery Photo
  • You Axed for It
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Films Featured

The House on Haunted HillWerewolf in a Girl's DormitoryHorrors of Spider IslandDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Personalities

Fredric MarchLon Chaney
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Bylines & Contributors

Barry BrownForry Ackerman

☠ Collector's Notes

Home-movie monster-making, decades before anyone could upload it: the $1,000 amateur-film contest winners in Issue #34 document a fan-filmmaker culture history mostly forgot. Period evidence of just how hands-on this hobby was.

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FM #34 — August 1965

Fredric March's Mr. Hyde — leering, degenerate, magnificently horrible — painted for a cover that captures everything unsettling about the 1931 Oscar-winning transformation. Inside: The House on Haunted Hill, Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory, Horrors of Spider Island, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Maurice Whitman, Fredric March, Lon Chaney, and Barry Brown.

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